Ten Droll Tales
Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, The Venial Sin, The Merrie Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, Together with Certain Other Quaint and Piquant Histories Making up the First Decade of the Droll Tales of Master Honore de Balzac, rendered Faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an Introduction by Andre Maurois and Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere
London: John Lane The Bodley Head LImited
1926
First Edition Thus
The edition is strictly limited to 3,000 copies for sale, of which this in No. 1,485
Tall octavo, xx, 221 pages, publisher's gilt lettered and decorated orange cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout in full color. Some minor rubbing, spine sunned, slight soiling and discoloration, else in good + condition.
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