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200441292NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0679642757 . Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Introduction by Adam Gopnik. First printing thus. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
1899022602Boston: Hardy Pratt and Co 1899. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 40 sets. The present set is #2. A few volumes unopened. In 40 volumes illustrated with photogravures hand-colored by Jeannniot Adrien Moreau and several others who were specially chosen by the firm Goupil & Co. The set has a total of 283 hand-colored plates 7 per volume except volume 40 which has 10. with tissue guards present. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley who most likely knows more about Balzac and his works than anyone in this country. He was her life's study. In the preface which was written by Balzac in 1856 was placed in volume I to give Balzac's own interpretation of his books. Balzac was an early pioneer of literary realism. He used incidents from his life and the people around him in works like Eugénie Grandet and Louis Lambert. His writings influenced several other writers including Henry James who wrote about him as did William Saroyan Marcel Proust adored him. He had been compared with Charles Dickens. An exceptionally fine set bound in 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt top edges gilt all others uncut. No names or bookplates spines are evenly faded but still quite beautiful. A monumental work. Hardy, Pratt and Co unknown books
1905245007Boston: Little Brown 1905. hardcover. very good. Girardet Jules & Guyon Maximilienne. Centenary Edition. 34 volumes. Illustrations by Jules Girardet and Maximilienne Guyon with tissue guards. 8vo bound in 1/2 deep red morocco over marbled boards; gilt-stamped fruit tree motif along spines and dotted raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Boston: Little Brown 1905. Very good.<br/><br/> A few spine ends are lightly rubbed but overall a very nice set.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
1899164399Boston: Little Brown 1899. hardcover. very good. Girardet Jules & Guyon Maximilienne. Centenary Edition. 33 volumes. Illustratrations by Jules Girardet and Maximilienne Guyon with tissue guards. Short 8vo bound in pretty 1/2 bright red morocco over marbled boards; gilt-stamped fruit tree motif along spines and dotted raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Boston: Little Brown 1899. Very good.<br/><br/> A few spine ends are lightly rubbed but overall a very nice set.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
1985313204London: Published by J.M. Dent and Co 1985. 38 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco t.e.g. Bookplate. About fine. 38 vols. 8vo. Ursule Mirouet 1895 La Grande Breteche and Other Stories 1896 The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau 1896 Beatrix 1896 The Chouans 1896 The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume I 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume II 1896 The Peasantry 1896 The Country Parson 1896 Modeste Mignon 1896 Pierette and the Abbe Birotteau 1896 The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories 1896 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 1897 The Unconscious Mummers and Other Stories 1897 WITHOUT:About Catherine de Medici 1897 The Lily of the Valley 1897 A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides 1897 The Seamy Side of History 1897 Lost Illusions 1897 A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories 1897 Cousin Pons 1897 Seraphita 1897 The Thirteen 1897 Parisians in the Country 1897 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 1897 The Jealousies of a Country Town 1898 The Middle Classes 1898 The Member for Arcis 1898 A Father's Curse 1898 A Gondreville Mystery 1898 A Princess's Secrets 1898 The Country Doctor 1900 The Quest of the Absolute 1901 Old Goriot 1903 The Wild Ass's Skin 1903 A Bachelor's Establishment 1904 Eugenie Grandet 1905 A Woman of Thirty 1907. Bookseller Inventory # 101962. Published by J.M. Dent and Co unknown books
189648428London / New York: MacMillan and Co. Ltd 1896. 1st edition thus. Original publisher's pale pink paper covers printed in dark maroon. Series adverts to cover insides listing to #264. Covers with printed statement "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.". A bit cocked with backstrip sun-tanned. Wrappers with wear & soiling. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 293 pp. Series adverts to covers. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Uncommon in the original wrappers. MacMillan and Co. Ltd unknown books
19497577Paris: Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Slipcase. A few tissueguards creased pale sporadic foxing else bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. Case and boards in paper faux-snakeskin loose signatures tissueguards. fo. Illus. color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 98 of 123 110 10 3. Signed by Jouve and the publisher at the colophon. <br/><br/>Illustrated by Paul Jouve with 13 colored etchings 3 of which are double-page and a separate suite of the etchings in black and white. Text printed within red borders each page with Egyptian-themed headpiece heightened in brownish gold. Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin hardcover books
1938122371Paris: Editions Valere 1938. Softcover. VG Light wear to extremities. Guyot. Off-white wraps; Dark yellow dj. with color plate affixed to front cover; 60 pp.; 27 color illustrations. Text in French; Balzac's short story Passion in the Desert in English wonderfully and vividly illustrated by Guyot; No. 427 of 500 copies in this edition. Editions Valere paperback books
2010UDEBTRE00MELWakefiield Press 2010. Good. de Balzac Honore. Treatise on Elegant Living. Cambridge MA: Wakefiield Press 2010. 84pp. 12mo. Paperback with flaps. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges soiling and a small abrasion to head of front cover. Wakefiield Press paperback books
1946235508Paris: L'Editeur 1946. Limited. paperback. fine. Beuville. Color illustrations by Beuville. iv 103pp. 8vo stiff printed wrappers in decorative board portfolio slipcase; some pages unopened spine of portfolio and edges of slipcase darkened. Paris: Chez L'editeur 1946. One of 750 copies on chiffon paper. A fine copy.<br/><br/> L'Editeur unknown books
1870201650Paris: George Barrie 1870. Limited. hardcover. very good. 45 volumes numerous engraved illustrations all with proof copies lettered tissue guards. Full brown polished calf colorful marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Paris: George Barrie circa 1870. An exquisite set with some wear to the bindings. Very good.<br/><br/> One of only 100 numbered sets on Japan paper.<br/><br/> George Barrie unknown books
19015000Boston: Little Brown and Company 1901. Octavo 34 volumes. The Centanary edition. Three quarters red leather gilt titles and tooling to the spine top edge gilt gilt ruled to the front and rear panel marbled endpapers frontispiece to each volume with tissue guard present. Illustrated by various artists. In near fine condition. A stunning set. "One of the great novelists of all literature" Balzac's genius consists in his dynamic unflagging creative vigour; his superabundant imagination" his masterly portrayal of passions and his grasp of such widely differing subjects" Harvey & Heseltine 44-45. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1897282130Philadelphia: George Barrie 1897. hardcover. near fine. 53 volumes numerous engraved illustrations all with lettered tissue guards. Rubricated titles 3/4 black morocco marbled boards and end papers top edges gilt. Philadelphia: George Barrie 1897. The Edition Definitive. A near fine set. Very good.<br/><br/> Previous owners bookplates.<br/><br/> George Barrie unknown books
189648462London / New York: MacMillan and Co. Ltd 1896. 1st edition thus. Original publisher's pale pink paper covers printed in dark maroon. Series adverts to cover insides. Covers with printed statement "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.". A bit cocked. Wrappers with wear & soiling with chipping to spine ends. Age-toning to paper. An About VG copy. 4 vi ix - xii 382 4 pp. Series advert last 2 pages. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Uncommon in the original wrappers. MacMillan and Co. Ltd unknown books
195880553London:: Allan Wingate. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. B0007IYI30 . Translated from the Gaelic by Edith Saunders. First edition thus. Very good in a very good light dust soiling on front panel fading along the spine dust jacket. . Allan Wingate, hardcover books
1927264196Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1927. Pamphlet. 64p. stapled light blue wraps 3.5x5 inches wraps toned along edges pages evenly toned else very good condition. Little Blue Book No. 1213. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
189648502London / New York: MacMillan and Co. Ltd 1896. 1st edition thus. Original publisher's pale pink paper covers printed in dark maroon. Series adverts to cover insides. Covers with printed statement "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.". Cocked. Wear age-toning & soiling to covers with some spine paper loss. A Good copy only. 226 pp. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Uncommon in the original wrappers. MacMillan and Co. Ltd unknown books
1925027468London: The Casanova Society 1925. Limited Edition. Quarto. . Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is #262. 311 pages translated by Francis Macnamara. Originally published in 1829 when he was 30 years old preceding his 96 novels. This was a satire on marital infidelity as was common in his period of French history but what is interesting is how he considered women's considerations so important for the marriage he writes: "if her mind has not entirely destroyed by your having kept her in a state of ignorance you will find.it is still possible for you to be feel drawn to one another from time to time." Bound on 1/4 brown cloth over blue paper covered boards blue paper spine label lettered in black. A very good copy with just a few spots of rubbing or soiling. Extra spine label laid in. The Casanova Society unknown books
1904255158London: Abbeville 1904. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes illustrations with tissue guards. 8vo handsomely rebound in 3/4 crimson morocco decoratively gilt spine marbled endpapers t.e.g. Philadelphia: George Barrie: Privately Printed 1899. A near fine set.<br/><br/> Limited edition one of 100 copies on Imperial Japan Paper.<br/><br/> Abbeville unknown books
1904174914London: Abbeville 1904. Private. hardcover. fine. Tall thick 8vo handsomely rebound in 3/4 blue morocco raised bands and gilt ruled lines on spine marbled endpapers t.e.g. London: Privately Printed 1904. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Abbeville unknown books
199538180New York: Viking 1995. Hardcover. xx 585p. very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Massive cimpendium of classic works and excerpts by gay and homophile writers from Plato to Arenas. Viking hardcover books
189648300London / New York: MacMillan and Co. Ltd 1896. 1st edition thus. Original publisher's pale pink paper covers printed in dark maroon. Series adverts to cover insides. Covers with printed statement "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.". A bit cocked. Wrappers with wear & soiling with diagonal crease to front cover lower corner. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 4 vi ix - xii 382 4 pp. Series advert last 2 pages. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Uncommon in the original wrappers. MacMillan and Co. Ltd unknown books
1897243472London: Leonard Smithers: Royal Arcade Old Bond Street 1897. One of 250 copes. Illus. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter red polished calf. Slightly rubbed one frontispiece torn else VG by Bickers and Sons Leicester Square. Bookplates of Sir William A.H. Bass Bart Racehorse Owner and Ronald Lambert Tree Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree September 26 1897 - July 14 1976 in London was an American-born British journalist. One of 250 copes. Illus. 5 vols. 8vo. Leonard Smithers: Royal Arcade Old Bond Street unknown books
1895256800Philadelphia: Barrie 1895. hardcover. near fine. Over 350 fine full page etchings by various artists each with tissue guards. 52 volumes 8vo 3/4 blue morocco decoratively gilt spines t.e.g. Philadelphia: George Barrie 1896- 1900. One of 1000 numbered copies. Near fine.<br/><br/> Barrie unknown books
190032685Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. The Memorial Edition of which there have been printed 100 Copies; Lettered A to Z and 1 to 74. Issued in the Interest of La Société des Gens de Lettres for the Prix Barrie-Balzac No. 33. PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Over 400 Plates in 2 States Frontispieces COLORED and UNCOLORED Plates in text in 2 states as well Remarqued on Japanese vellum and Unremarqued on tissue tipped onto Japanese vellum Etchings after Paintings by Adrien Moreau Louis-Eduard Fournier etc. 51 vols. 8vo. Bound in original gray cloth with paper title labels identifying this as the "Definitive Edition" minor wear. Lacking Parisian Life vol. 6 vol. 6 of 53 and Philosophical Studies vol. 1 vol. 42 of 53. The Memorial Edition of which there have been printed 100 Copies; Lettered A to Z and 1 to 74. Issued in the Interest of La Société des Gens de Lettres for the Prix Barrie-Balzac No. 33. PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Over 400 Plates in 2 States Frontispieces COLORED and UNCOLORED Plates in text in 2 states as well Remarqued on Japanese vellum and Unremarqued on tissue tipped onto Japanese vellum Etchings after Paintings by Adrien Moreau Louis-Eduard Fournier etc. 51 vols. 8vo. George Barrie & Son unknown books
