Balzac "Droll Stories," hardcover in good condition, no dust jacket. 650 pages with hundreds of engravings by celebrated illustrator Gustav Dore. Cloth with gilt title, marbled end papers, deckled edges. Tear at top of title page, small piece of tape, 2 stains in margin, one light brown streak on a page. Binding has 1/4" bump bottom front, otherwise very clean and binding intact. Bibliophilist Society first edition, London 1874. WITH biography of Balzac by respected scholar Stefan Zweig, hardcover with torn dust jacket, first edition 1946 Viking Press.