Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. No writing or damage. One of the series titled Scenes from Private Life, part of The Human Comedy. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Copyright 1896. 352, 153, and 48 pp. respectively, with the last two stories paginated consecutively. View More...
Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. One of the series titled Scenes from Country Life, part of The Divine Comedy. No writing or damage. 419 pp. View More...
Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Abrasion to 2 inches of the rear cover top edge. Marbled endpapers. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. No writing. One of the series titled Scenes from Political Life, part of The Divine Comedy. Top edges gilt. Deckled front edges. Copyright 1896. 482 pp. View More...
Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. No writing or damage. One of the series titled Scenes from Parisian Life, part of The Human Comedy. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Book is tight and clean, and appears hardly read. Top edges gilt. Front edges deckled. Copyright 1896. 222, 182, 280, and 20 pp., respectively, with the last two stories paginated consecutively. View More...
Original maroon cloth on boards. Translated from the French to English by R.S. Scott. Previous owner's partial bookplate. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. In A Daughter of Eve, a countess, happily married, gives in to the urging by her friends to take a lover. She falls in love with a brilliant journalist, who thereby thinks his future is secure. When his life turns sour she rescues him, and then.... Letters of Two Brides is a story of two friends in the convent who leave to continue their friendship in correspondence which lasts 17 years. One marries a commoner, whom she wil... View More...
