The Works of Honoré de Balzac: The Magic Skin, The Quest of the Absolute and Other Stories; About Catherine De' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories; Eugénie Grandet, Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories; At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, A Bachelor's Establishment and Other Stories; A Daughter of Eve, A Woman of Thirty and Other Stories; A Marriage Settlement, Modeste Mignon and Other Stories; Béatrix, The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy; Lost Illusions, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; The Lilly of the Valley, The Country Doctor and Other Stories; The Country Parson and Albert Savarus, The Peasantry; Poor Relations: Cousin Betty, Cousin Pons; Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, The Government Clerks; The Thirteen, Father Goriot and Other Stories; The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau, The Middle Classes; The Chouans, The Gondreville Mystery and Other Stories; The Member for Arcis, The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories; Vautrin, The Resources of Quinola and Other Stories; The Physiology of Marriage, Petty Troubles of Married LIfe, Repertory
New York: The Nottingham Society [1901], 1901. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 18 vol. 8vo. [8], vii-lxxv, [1], 344, [2], vii-xiii, [1], 386 [2]; [8], ix-xiv, [1], 2-391, [3], ix-xiii, [1], 384; [3], iv, [4], vii-xiv, 383, [3], ix-xiv, 389, [3]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xv, [1], 399, [3], ix-xiii, [2], 2-380, [2]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xii, 365, [3], ix-xiii, [1], 372, [2]; [8], ix-xiii, [2], 2-382, [2], ix-xiv, 396, [4]; [8], vii-xi, [1], 334, [2], vii-xi, [1], 380, [4]; [8], vii-x, 354, [2], ix, [1], 340, [4]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xiv, 359, [3], ix-xiv, 407, [1]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xiii, [1], 398, [2], ix-xii, 351, [5]; [8], ix-xiii, [1], 445, [3], ix-xii, 315, [3]; [8], ix-xiii, [1], 412, [2], ix-xiii, [1], 388, [2]; [8], ix-xiii, [1], 357, [3], ix-xvi, 391, [3]; [8], ix-xiii, [1], 387, [3], ix-xii, 506, [2]; [8], ix-xiv, 369, [3], ix-xiii, [1], 405, [3]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xii, 471, [3], ix-xvii, [1], 410, [2]; [6], v-xv, [3], 3-437, [1], v-vii, [3], 5-330, [2]; [8], v-viii, [2], 496, [2], iii-xviii, 522, [2] pp. Half green leather over marbled boards with the spines lettered and ruled in gold; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title pages printed in red and black. Each volume divided into two parts. Text in English. Volumes one, two, three, four, five, nine, eleven, twelve, fourteen, and sixteen illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates; volumes six, eight, ten, thirteen, and fifteen with a frontispiece and five plates; volume seven with a frontispiece and six plates; volume seventeen with a frontispiece and three plates; volume eighteen illustrated with two frontispieces and one plate. With introductions by George Saintsbury. Limited to one thousand copies for subscribers only, this set is number 260. Due to the size of this set, please contact us directly for a shipping quote. Near Very Good. Item #000010116
A Near Very Good set with notable fading to the spines and wear to the spine tips, each volume has a small number written on the verso of its front flyleaf and volume one has a few scattered annotations.
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