Ten Droll Tales

1st Edition, Very Good (sunning and soiling to spine).

Murrays Book Sales. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Jean de Bosschere. Undated Abbey Library edition hardback, translated by J. Lewis May, with no jacket. From a private collection and in overall good to very good condition, black fauz-leather boards, with gilt titles to spine, show only minor signs of handling and storage. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions, slight tanning… Ler mais sobre este item

The Abbey Library, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. Blue dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to… Ler mais sobre este item

UK: Abbey Library dustwrapper torn around edges, text browning with age. Undated but prob. about 1950.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Short stories by the author. Fair Imperia. Venial Sin. King's Mistress. Devil's Heir. Merrie Diversions of King Louis the Eleventh. High Constable's Wife. Virgin of Thilhouse. Brothers-In-Arms. Cure of Azay-Le-Rideau. Rebuke. Photo front cover.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 222 pages, limited edition this being number 2627, page edges untrimmed as issued, very good in torn with loss good only unclipped dustwrapper We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and… Ler mais sobre este item

John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Limited. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Jean De Bosschere. Age toning to pages especially the end papers. Pages have been very roughly had cut. Binding webbing is starting to show between end papers and boards. Outer boards are bumped at edges and corners. Cloth on spine is… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good -. 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… Ler mais sobre este item

Pages 218 pp.8vo. Orange cloth binding, decorated in black & gilt. Limited edition of 3000 numbered copies. Illustrated by Jean De Bosschere. Very good condition.

New York: Hillman Periodicals Inc. Fair. 1949. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. First edition thus. Hillman Publication No. 12. "Stories of love and passion that have become world classics". Pictorial wrappers, 192 pages collecting 10 stories. Reading/filler copy [spine creased and somewhat cocked with edgewear, cover creasing, top edge staining to the last few pages, interior… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Rarity Press, 1931. Hardcover. Introduction by Andre Maurois. Translation by J. Lewis May. Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Small 4to. Lavender cloth with silver spine lettering and decoration. xvii, 218pp. Color frontispiece, full-page illustrations (some color). Very good. Faint binding edgewear. A tight and nice copy of these saucy French tales with racy line drawings. To cite… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 10" by 6". Jean de Bosshere. An excellent copy of Honore de Balzac's famous short story collection. Illustrated throughout by the famous Belgian painter Jean de Bosschere. The first edition of these tales illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. With a frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Bosschere… Ler mais sobre este item

London:: John Lane,, 1926.. No. 247 of 3,000 copies.. publisher's gilt bright orange cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a jacket with a few small nicks and edge wear.. Large 8vo,. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere.

LONDON, BODLEY HEAD, 1926. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD BUT SLIGHTLY MARKED FRONT BOARD AND FADED SPINE. ORANGE DECORATED BOARDS. 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… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Murrays Book Sales, Undated. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 220x140x40mm. BOSSCHERE, JEAN DE. 220x140x40mm+640g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Murrays Book Sales. London. Undated. . . . Translated by J. Lewis May: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned… Ler mais sobre este item

Ten Droll Tales by Honore de Balzac, Hillman 12, 1948, first printing with photo cover art. Bright, clean and tight; covers nice and colorful; mild lean to spine and light creases.

The Abbey Library, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. A collectible hardcover book in very good condition with tight binding and no markings in text;… Ler mais sobre este item

United States: Hillman No. 12, 1949. Solid with creases on the spine and some thin creases on the covers, otherwise the covers show light wear.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Abbey Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cover, no dust. Looks new. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. Scarce in this condition.; Illustrations; pages .

London: The Abbey Library, Undated. Hardcover. Very good. Jean de Bosschère. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May with an introduction (printed in English and in French) by André Maurois. 24pp b&w plates by Jean de Bosschère. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Light tanning to the text paper. A… Ler mais sobre este item