Published by Privately Printed, London
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A. Robida (illustrator). Red cloth with beige pasted paper spine label, black lettering. Translated into English complete and unabridged. With forty-eight illustrations by A. Robida. Light general soiling and spotting to boards. Thick red remainder mark to lower closed outside edge. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Hinge cracked but not broken at Contents page.
Published by Privately published, No place
Seller: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No date. Paper covers. 348 pp. A solid copy with only light wear.
Language: English
Published by Privately printed
US$ 12.39
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Robida, A. (illustrator). 'Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine' by Balzac. Illustrated by A. Robida. Privately printed. Slight rubbing and marks to boards. Good. No dust jacket 0.
Condition: New.
Published by Privately Printed, London, UK
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robida, A (illustrator). Undated, circa 1920s. viii, 366pp; fifty black and white engraved plates all by A Robida. Red cloth-covered boards, blind embossed border on front, gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt, remaining untrimmed. 8vo. Spine sunned, bumped at ends. Light staining to covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. The first English version of the Contes Drolatiques.
Published by No publisher listed np nd
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
468pp. 8vo Illustrated in black and white by A. Robida Green cloth with paper spine label Preface dated London, 1874. This is a later printing. Hinges beginning to crack, light edge rubbing: VG/no dj.
Condition: New.
Published by Privately Printed, London, England, 1874
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Half-Leather. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. A Robida (illustrator). None Stated. The first English translation of a collection of 30 stories portraying French life and manners in the 16th century. Contains 48 illustration by a Robida. Privately printed in London circa 1874. Half-leather binding w/gilt on the page tops. Some wear to the boards. A good to very good copy.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by None Stated (Late 1800s?), 1800
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Language: English
Published by Privately printed, 1110
Seller: Tilly's Bookshop (Eleven30 Group Ltd), Warrington, MER, United Kingdom
US$ 25.95
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A Robida (illustrator). dust jacket is in fair condition, age related minor nicks and rips, dulled, frontispiece with tissue guard, 366pp, pages nice and clean and overall very good condition.
Published by London: Privately Printed
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good-.
Language: English
Published by Privately Printed, London, 1874
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 27.69
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. A. Robida (illustrator). 1st Edition. Privately Printed, no date - circa 1874. Unabridged English Translation. Illustrations by A. Robida. Octavo. viii, 366pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. Spine slightly faded, minor rubbing and fraying to extremities. Slight staining to head of text-block. Some off-setting to end papers and occasional marginal foxing within. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.
US$ 38.88
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketCondition: New. In.
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
US$ 36.88
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketCondition: New.
Published by Privately Printed, London
Seller: The Blue Penguin, FRODSHAM, United Kingdom
US$ 11.07
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Robida (illustrator). Reprint. Original maroon cloth, pp.viii, 366. Bw ills by A Robida. Privately printed. Spine gilt dull but legible. Otherwise a clean and sound copy. VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by Privately printed
US$ 48.33
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robida, A. (illustrator). 'Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine' by Balzac. Illustrated by A. Robida. Privately printed. Very good in slightly torn and faded jacket. 0.
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
US$ 40.67
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketCondition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Librairie Illustree - J. Tallandier Editeur 0, Paris
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. Robida, A. (illustrator). ohne Jahresangabe, Exlibris, schön illustriert Size: gr. 8 °. Buch.
Published by Privately Printed, London, 1874
US$ 41.53
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. A. Robida (illustrator). A complete and unabridged English translation of this short-story collection by French writer Honore de Balzac. A complete and unabridged English translation of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by Hathi Trust.With fifty full-page illustrations by French artist and novelist, Albert Robida, who also edited and published 'La Caricature' magazine for twelve years. Collated, complete.'Droll Stories' is a collection of humorous short stories by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac, largely influenced by Francois Rabelais and set in medieval and Renaissance France. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. Externally, smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good. book.
Published by PRIVATELY PRINTED 0, LONDON
Seller: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. WITH FORTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. ROBIDA (illustrator). Brown cover with paper spine title. Secure binding with a top spine shift and clean pages. Undated circa 1920. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 with 468 pages. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Tallandier, 1942
Seller: LIBRAIRIE GIL-ARTGIL SARL, RODEZ, France
Tallandier 1929. 3 volumes in-8 brochés, illustrés par Robida. Colelctions les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'esprit. Bon état.
Language: English
Published by Paris, Librairie Illustrée, J. Tallandier, 1900
Seller: BiblioBlu, Haarlem, NH, Netherlands
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. c. 1900. 3 parts in two vols. III,(3),396; 376 p. Halfleather with marbled boards, top edge gilt, 4to. Bound with original wrappers. Unnumbered copy. Spine with mild rubbing, else good. [BW.1.34].
Published by Paris: Tallandier
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. no date (c. 1900), odd volume, in half-leather and marbled boards, spine decorated in the French style, marbled endpapers, original coloured wraps bound in, very good. Approx. 300 illustrations in this volume, some as plates, some in text.
Condition: New.
Published by Editions Jules Tallandier, 1929
Seller: Librairie Et Cætera - Sophie Rosière, Belin-Béliet, France
Couverture souple. Illustrations de A. Robida. (illustrator). Livre en français. Illustrations de A. Robida. Broché. 254 pages. Rousseurs. Littérature : 19e siècle. Livre.
Language: French
Published by Jules Tallandier, Paris, 1925
Seller: Librairie les mains dans les poches, Tourbes, France
Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. A. Robida (illustrator). 3 tomes en un grand volume in-8 de III-262, VI-252 et VII-252 pp.; demi-basane marron, dos à cinq nerfs (reliure légèrement postérieure). Collection Les chef-d'oeuvre de l'esprit. Illustrations en noir in et hors texte d'Albert Robida. Quelques légères rousseurs.
Published by Privately Printed, London ca. 1915, 1915
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, hardcover, no dj. Near fine condition. Bound in black half-leather, spine and corners, top edge gilt, gilt title and decoration remarkably sharp. Leather supple and unworn. Previous owner's attractive bookplate on inside front cover; handwritten signature on first blank page. Contents crisp, clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 468 pp., 48 illustrations by Albert Robida. Translated into English complete and unabridged. A lovely copy.
Language: French
Published by Jules Tallandier, Paris
Seller: L'ivre d'Histoires, Merbes Sainte Marie, Belgium
Couverture Souple illustrée. Condition: Bon. Robida A. (illustrator). Tome 1 : 264 pages, tome 2 : 256 pages, tome 3 : 256 pages.