Author: BALZAC, HONORé DE
Title: Père Goriot -and- Eugénie Grandet (Modern Library #245. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958]. Hardcover. Two of Honoré de Balzac's most admired novels from his "La Comédie humaine" series in a single Modern Library edition. With an introduction by E. K. Brown. 'Goriot' translated from the French by E. K. Brown, 'Grandet' by Dorothea Walter and John Watkins. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling stamped on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 383 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #245.1. --- A very well-preserved copy: bright, tightly bound and unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket also in great shape, though with minor rubbing & soiling; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvi, 496 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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