Author: BALZAC, Honore De
Title: Ten Droll Tales
Description: 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 subtitle: "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...

Keywords: World Literature


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