Les Contes Drolatiques
first edition hardcover
1939 · Paris
by BALZAC, (Honore de)
Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs, 1939. Limited. hardcover. very good(+). Frontispiece, and 123 other very humorous color illustrations by Dubout. 372 pages with text in French. Short thick 4to, attractively rebound in brown cloth with original front wrapper inset; uncut edges. Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, (1939). Limited edition - number 858 of 3000 copies. Pages are slightly brittle and uniformly toned as usual, still a very good(+) copy. (Inventory #: 272321)