Hardcover
1939 · [New York]
by BALZAC, Honoré de (Boris Artzybasheff, Ralph Barton, Sangorski and Sutcliffe)
[New York]: The Heritage Club, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated from the French by Jacques Le Clercq. With illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. Extra illustrated with color plates by Ralph Barton taken from a limited edition of *Droll Stories* published by Boni & Liveright in 1928. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco over boards, with pictorial designs stamped in color on both boards and the spine, inside gilt tooling, all edges gilt. Bookplate of Saul Shapiro on the first front fly leaf. Very slight sunning to the spine, a fine copy in a maroon goatskin wrapper with interior silk pastedowns and yapp edges and the title lettered (truncated)