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Honore de Balzac - The Balzacians Notebooks, or, Les Cahiers Balzaciens

Title: The Balzacians Notebooks, or, Les Cahiers Balzaciens
Description: Paris, Marcel Bourteron, 1923-1928. First edition. Paperback. A limited copy of the first edition of these volumes containing previously unpublished works by Balzac. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies on laid paper. Signed to justify. With the original slip cases. French language. Set of eight volumes with soft cover and individual slip cases. Works by Honoré de Balzac, a French novelist, playwright and one of the founders of Realism in European Literature. Volume One: unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and Lieutenant-Colonel L.-N. Periolas. With four plates, including a portrait. Volume Two: La Gina's fantasies by Honoré de Balzac. Unpublished news. With eight plates. Volume Three: Letters from women addressed to Honoré de Balzac. First series (1832-1836). With four plates. Volume Four: The Hundred Funny Tales. Brought to light by the Sieur de Balzac. Fourth ten. Unpublished fragments. With four plates. Volume Five: Letters from women addressed to Honoré de Balzac. Second series (1837-1840). With seven plates. Volume Six: Unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and the Duchess of Castries (1831-1848). With six plates. Volume Seven: Letter on Kiew by Honoré de Balzac. Unpublished fragment. Adorned with seven plates. Volume Eight: Unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and Doctor Nacquart. Collated complete. In the original brown laid paper binding. Each volume has its own brown card slip case. Externally, each volume is very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Volume One: slip case disbound. Front board has separated with loss of top and rear seam. Volume Two: slip case disbound. Separate front and rear boards only. Volumes Three to Five: slip case very smart, with the odd mark to the board and light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with age toning to the edges. Volumes Five, Six and Eight have some text block unopened. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Balzac Notebooks Les Cahiers Notebooks None

Price: GBP 995.00 = appr. US$ 1420.85 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 840T70

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