STORIES BY FOREIGN AUTHORS

Verlag: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 The Caxton Press, New York, 1902

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Ten volumes, 4 ¾ in. x 6 7/8 in., various paginations. With frontispiece portraits of authors. Bound by W. Roach N.Y., with their stamps, in three-quarter black morocco leather with five raised bands on the spines, gilt titling and designs, and light blue cloth, with darker blue marbled endpapers, top-edges gilt. Spine ends & cover corners light wear on some volumes, otherwise a near fine and scarce set. French 3 vols., German 2 vols, Italian, Polish Greek Belgian Hungarian 1 vol., Russian 1 vol., Scandinavian 1 vol., Spanish 1 vol. Contents: v. 1-3. French: v. 1. The siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet. The juggler of Notre Dame by Anatole France. Uncle and nephew by Edmond About. Another gambler by Paul Bourget. The necklace by Guy de Maupassant. The black pearl by Victorien Sardou v. 2. The substitute by Francois Coppee. The attack on the mill by Emile Zola. The virgin's god-child by Emile Souvestre. The sempstress' story by Gustav Droz. The Venus of Ille by Prosper Merimee v. 3. The hidden masterpiece by Henri de Balzac. The sorrow of an old convict by Pierre Loti. The mummy's foot by Theophile Gautier. Father and son by Edouard Rod. Laurette or the red seal by Alfred de Vigny v. 4-5. German: v. 4. The fury by Paul Heyse. The philosopher's pendulum by Rudolph Lindau. The bookbinder of Hort by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The Egyptian fire-eater by Rudolph Baumbach. The Cremona violin by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Adventures of a New-Year's Eve by Heinrich Zschokke v. 5. Christian Gellert's last Christmas by Berthold Auerbach. A ghetto violet by Leopold Kompert. The severed hand by Wilhelm Hauff. Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso. v. 6. Italian: A great day by Edmondo de Amicis. Pereat Rochus by Antonio Fogazzaro. San Pantaleone by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It snows by Enrico Castelnuovo. College friends by Edmondo de Amicis v. 7. Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian: The light-house keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The plain sister by Demetrios Bikelas. The massacre of the innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck. Saint Nicholas Eve by Camille Lemonnier. In love with the czarina by Maurice Jokai v. 8. Russian: Mumu by Ivan Turgenev. The shot by Alexander Poushkin. St. John's Eve by Nikolai V. Gogol. An old acquaintance by Lyof N. Tolstoi v. 9. Scandinavian: The father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson. When father brought home the lamp by Juhani Aho. The flying mail by M. Goldschmidt. The railroad and the churchyard by Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Two friends by Alexander Kielland. Hopes by Frederika Bremer v. 10. Spanish: The tall woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. The white butterfly by Jose Selgas. Maese Perez the organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Moors and Christians by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Bread cast upon the waters by Fernan Caballero. Weight: 7 ½ lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1570119520583

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Titel: STORIES BY FOREIGN AUTHORS

Verlag: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 The Caxton Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1902

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket