Old Goriot (Le Père Goriot) (Everyman's Library #170)
by BALZAC, Honoré de
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. A 1963 reprint of the 1948 issuance. Set in the author's 19th Century Paris, "Old Goriot" is often referred to by its French title, "Le Père Goriot", and is perhaps Honoré de Balzac's most admired novel. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, and with an introduction by Professor Marcel Girard. Number 170 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- An ex-library copy in Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and gilt interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine; pale orange topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With library rubberstampings to textblock top edge & title page, tape adhesive residues to insides and outsides of covers and torn-out front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Ex-Library; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xv, 238 pages .
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- Bluebird Books (US)
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- 85347
- Title
- Old Goriot (Le Père Goriot) (Everyman's Library #170)
- Author
- BALZAC, Honoré de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1963
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- Tail
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