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Balzac's shorter stories.
LIBRA - Rare PQ2159.A2 A48 1898
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author.
- Series:
- [Sanspareil series] ; [7]
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Publisher's advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- 283 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia :, Henry Altemus, [1898]
- Contents:
- Prefatory notice
- Don Juan; or, The elixir of long life
- Christ in Flanders
- In the time of the Terror
- Madame de Dey's last reception
- A passion in the desert
- Lost by a laugh
- Gold
- Doomed to live
- An accursed house
- The atheist's mass
- A tragedy by the sea.
- Notes:
- Binding is format 1 for Altemus's Sanspareil series, used 1898. See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series162.htm (viewed 7 August 2026).
- Series statement and volume number from www.henryaltemus.com/series/series162.htm (viewed 7 August 2026).
- Half-title in red on illustrated architectural background; title in red within green and red floriate border.
- Publisher's advertisement on pages [2]-[17] at end of volume.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare PQ2159.A2 A48 1898 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Dated 20th-century autograph ("Ruby M. Roberts August 28 1900") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 1610670226
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