Item #003790 Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère. Honoré de Balzac.
Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère
Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère
Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère
Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère

Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac; endered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean de Bosschère

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1926. Hardcover. xx, 218, [6] p., color frontispiece and 23 additional leaves of plates (mostly color, a few line drawings); 25 cm. Orange cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; gilt-stamped illustration on spine and front board. Top page edges red. Fore-edges are untrimmed. Lacking dust jacket. This is no. 1909 of a limited edition of 3,000 copies for sale. In Very Good- Condition: cover is slightly soiled; spine is sunned; minor foxing, primarily along margins of plates and adjacent pages; otherwise clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #003790

Price: $32.00

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