BALZAC (Honoré de). Pierrette. Scenes of... - Lot 33 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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BALZAC (Honoré de). Pierrette. Scenes of... - Lot 33 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
BALZAC (Honoré de). Pierrette. Scenes of provincial life by M. de Balzac. Paris, Hippolyte Souverain, 1849, 2 vols. 8°, XXVI p., 5 p. uncounted, pp. 20-294, 1 p. uncounted, 1 p. blank, and 7 p. uncounted, pp. 4-325, 1 p. blank, 1 p. uncounted, 1 p. blank, half-bound in contemporary brown leather, smooth spine, gilt title and gilt tome (paper boards and endpaper renewed, numerous stains and freckles). First published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle from January 11 to 27, 1840, the work will be published in volumes in September of the same year. A cruel and despairing tale, Pierrette is one of the darkest texts of Balzac's work, who never showed more ferocity in the description of the provincial life.
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