BALZAC H. - 13 volumes of "The Human Comedy" in a semi-parchment binding from the 1930s.

BALZAC [Honoré de] - The human comedy. Translated and with an introduction by Tadeusz Żeleński (Boy). New ed. [13 volumes]. Warsaw [193-]. Boy's Bibljoteka. 16d. Pperg binding of period, stained trim.
Volume "Lost Illusions" lacks one fold (pp. 17-32 - replaced with blank pages), otherwise very good condition. Thirteen volumes of Balzac's "Human Comedy" from the Boy Library and one volume (as 14) from the same publisher: "Journey to Poland" by the same author. The collection was bound in 10 half-perchment volumes, with gilding on the spines and red signboards with the gilded title of the cycle and the name of its author. The binding is unsigned. The set includes the following titles: The Woman of Thirty; The Parson of Tours; The Chevalier's Household; The Muse of Parochialism; Lost Illusions; The Duchesse De Langeais; The Girl with Golden Eyes; The Story of the Greatness and Fall of Caesar Birotteau; Where Bad Roads Lead. The last incarnation of Vautrin; The glories and miseries of the life of a courtesan; The Physiology of Marriage, vol. 1-2; The Lizard; Journey to Poland.