BALZAC, HONORE' DE; GEORGE SAINTSBURY INTRO (3 resultados)

hardcover, Condición: fair, Dana Estes & Co., Boston, c.1901, 8vo., green cloth, (445,315)pp., illusts., ex-lib.- bkplte., pocket, stamps, no spine label, frayed spine caps, bumped corners, fair, $.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Limited Edition. Deluxe edition: Limited edition of 1000. Dark red half-leather w/red marbled boards. Rough-cut pages. Some moderate wear to paper at bottom edges, paper worn off top/front edges. Cover paper in excellent shape, but for edges. Corners/spine in leather in excellent condition. Intact tissue over plate. 410 pgs. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Not Stated Ilustrador. The uniformly bound works of the notable French novelist and playwright Balzac, in thirty-six volumes, with two volumes of Droll Stories. Thirty-eight volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Top edges gilt.Thirty-four volumes from No. 1212 of 1250 limited edition sets of the Connoisseur Edition de Luxe of the complete works of Honoré de Balzac, two volumes (1 and 33) from No. 456 of this edition, and two volumes of Droll Stories, uniformly bound like the rest of this collection. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was an influential French novelist and playwright. The novel sequenceLa Comédie humaine is generally viewed as his magnum opus, and it is in this collection in its entirety.Thirty-three volumes are introduced by George Saintsbury, two (33 and 34) are introduced by J. Walker McSpadden, and Volume 36 is introduced by Paul Bourget. They are all translated from the original French by either Ellen Marriage, Clara Bell, R. S. Scott, James Waring or J. Walker McSpadden.All volumes are illustrated with a frontispiece. All volumes are illustrated with a further three plates, except for Volumes 2, 9, 16 and 21, which have four further plates, and Volumes 33, 34 and 35, which have one further plate, and Volume 2 of Droll Stories which has two further plates. Collated, complete.This selection comprises: 1: The Magic Skin and Other Stories; 2: The Quest of the Absolute and Other Stories; 3: About Catherine de Medici; 4: Seraphita; 5: Eugene Grandet and Other Stories; 6: Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories; 7: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket and Other Stories; 8: A Bachelor"s Establishment and Honorine; 9: A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides; 10: A Woman of Thirty and Other Stories; 11: A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories; 12: Modeste Mignon and Other Stories; 13: Beatrix; 14: The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy; 15: Lost Illusions; 16: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; 17: The Lily of the Valley and the Firm of Nucingen; 18: The Country Doctor and Other Stories; 19: The Country Parson and Albert Savarus; 20: The Peasantry; 21: Cousin Betty; 22: Cousin Pons; 23: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part First; 24: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part Second; 25: The Thirteen; 26: Father Goriot and Other Stories; 27: The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau and the Secrets of a Princess; 28: The Middle Classes; 29: The Chouans: A Passion in the Desert; 30: The Gondreville Mystery and the Muse of the Department; 31: The Member for Arcis; 33: Physiology of Marriage; 32: The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories; 34: The Dramas; 35: The Dramas; 36: Repertory of the Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe; and two volumes of Droll Stories. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally fairly smart, with a little shelf wear to the extremities. Sunned to spine labels. Mark to the spine label and front board of Volume 8 and 27. Marks to the front board of Volume 3, 6, 9, 15, 18 and 28. A couple of indentations to the rear board of Volume 18. Marks to the spine of Volume 13. Mark to the spine label and rear board of Volume 14. Small losses to spine labels of Volumes 24, 27 and 34. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned and roughly cut but clean. Very Good. book.