OLD GORIOT

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to the spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.