BALZAC, HONORé DE — Droll Stories (Modern Library #193. 1)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1948]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering the famous collection of ribald, amusing stories by the acclaimed French author of "La Comédie humaine." Translated from the French and with preface by unspecified person. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (no publication date appears in book). ML #193.1. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with light foxing to textblock fore-edge, some age-toning to leaves & slight dulling to cover gilding. Good-only, price-clipped dust jacket with chips to spine ends, other small tears & creasing, else mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xi, 553, [8, ads] pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .