TEN DROLL TALES

by Jean De Bosschère, Honoré de Balzac, André Maurois

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

London: John Lane, 1926. Limited edition collection in English of the first part of Balzac's LES CENT CONTES DROLATIQUES, inspired by Boccaccio and Rabelais. Near fine. Item #55043 Balzac began his cent amusing short stories with the ambition to publish ten at a time, ten times; he ultimately wrote only thirty. The tales here were the first group issued, in 1832. They were composed simultaneously to the early years of LA

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