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Published by Citadel, NY, 1958
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Orange cloth. Very good with subtle fading and previous owner's name on front free endsheet Poor. Ripped up, taped, and yellowed. 8vo.
Published by The Bibliophilist Society nd c 1930, 1930
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. reprint. Cloth, G. xxxii+651pp, b/w illustrations throughout by Dore, cloth rubbed & marked, a good reading copy. Reprinting of the 1907 Bibliophilist Society edition of the Contes Drolatiques which formed originally part of Balzac's opus La Comédie Humaine. 1300 grams.
Published by Leipzig, Insel, 1977
Seller: Versandhandel K. Gromer, Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 2 Bände - gut erhalten. ---.
Published by William Mitchell, London, UK, 1888
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1888. Green cloth with marvellous gold and black decor. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Illustrations by Gustave Dore. 489 pages. 6290.
Published by Librairie Garnier Freres, Paris, France, 1926
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. Original French text with wraps dated 1926 bound in 3/4 vellum with marbled boards. Color caricature of a laughing monk and calligraphic titles hand painted on the vellum spine. Light shelf wear only The color marbled endpapers and contents are clean and unmarked. Includes 425 B/W Dore illustrations. Pages 601-604 show rough opening along the margins, otherwise the book is near fine. International shipping may require added postage charges.
Published by ParisBureaux de la Société générale de librairie ., 1855
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
FIRST EDITION THUS. PRINTED ON PAPIER VÉLIN SATINÉ. 8vo. (20 x 12.5 cm). pp.xxxi+[1]+614+[1]. Contemporary full red morocco signed by David, sides richly tooled in gilt with inlaid green morocco border and flowers, four gilt cherubs to corners reflecting "la victime de l'amour" vignette to covers and title-page, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, green morocco doublures stamped with gilt cherubic motifs, decorative silk endpapers and additional marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (some pages uncut), with the original wrappers dated 1856 bound in. 425 illustrations by Gustave Doré engraved on wood by Lavieille, Rouget, Pisan, Brévière and Piaud. An extremely fine copy printed on immaculate papier vélin satiné and with particularly fine impressions throughout. First illustrated edition of the Contes drolatiques with 425 illustrations by Gustave Dore, praised by Ray ("Doré's early masterpiece"), Carteret ( "le chef-d' uvre d'illustrations de Gustave Doré"), and Beraldi who though it the most likely to endure of all Doré's books - "S'il n'en reste qu'un seul, ce sera celui-là !" (Béraldi). Although the title refers to this edition as the "cinquiesme édition", it is actually the fourth edition of Les contes drolatiques, which was first published between 1832-1837. It is well recorded that Balzac's widow granted permission for the illustrated edition only on the condition: "that no artist but Doré should be allowed to illustrate her husband's works" (Anthony North-Peat, Gossip from Paris 1864-69, p. 324). According to Carteret there were probably 25 copies printed on chine, of which he lists 7 copies to have appeared in commerce. It is likely that copies printed on vélin are equally rare, with Carteret again citing just 7 copies. Carteret, III, pp. 48-53; Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout, II, 6445; Berny, Livres anciens, romantiques et modernes, III, 92; Rahir, VI, 1875; Ray, 244.