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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jackets. First Editions. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1929. INSCRIBED: "To Richard Gimbel, Esq., Lover of Books, Patron of Literature, from his friend, the bibliographer, (SIGNED) Royce, January 1929." Richard Gimbel purchased Edgar Allan Poe's Philadelphia residence and after refurbishment, donated the house and his extensive collection of Poe books and manuscripts (including the original manuscript of MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE) to the city as a museum. He later built impressive Dickens, Hardy, Thomas Paine, and aeronautical collections. In 1953 he was appointed curator of Aeronautical Literature at the Yale University Library. See Dickinson pp.137-138. NOT library discards. Two separate volumes. Published 1929 and 1930 respectively. First Editions. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jackets (price clipped; a few tiny chips). The jackets are protected by removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeves. Small booklabel on the pastedown endpaper. It reads simply: "Once Richard Gimbel's." Tear to title page of the first volume has been neatly mended with archival quality document repair tape. Pages are clean and unmarked. Over 4000 entries, many annotated. Introduction by E. Preston Dargan. Covers all material on Balzac in books and in periodical publications in a dozen languages up to 1928. Gives all essential bibliographical details for each entry, "with critical opinions of the more important and synopses of their contents" - from the dust jacket. The two volumes are uniformly bound in the original black boards with blue cloth spine, stamped in red and shiny gold. Complete with dust jackets. Full titles: A BALZAC BIBLIOGRAPHY, WRITINGS RELATIVE TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HONORÃ DE BALZAC (with) INDEXES TO A BALZAC BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINING AN INDEX TO PERIODICALS AND A TOPICAL INDEX TO ITEMS IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oversize Hardcover. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Editions. Oversize Hardcover (heavy). Very Good condition/Very Good dust jackets. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 2 vols: xvii, 464pp + xi, 190pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…