DESCRIPTION: The Novels of Balzac Tours Edition No. 31/100 in 37 volumes, cloth boards with paper labels, published by Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co., Philadelphia in 1897 (MDCCCXCVII). Translated by Clara Bell with preface by George Saintsbury. Titles: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Cousin Betty, A Father's Curse, Eugenie Granoet, A Gondreville Mystery, About Catherine de Medici, A Bachelor's Establishment, Modeste Mignon, The Wild Ass's Skin, The Lily of the Valley, A Woman of Thirty, A Harlot's Progress Volume II, The Unconscious Mummers, The Unknown Masterpiece, La Grande Breteche, The Thirteen, The Seamy Side of History, A Marriage Settlement, The Atheist's Mass, A Harlot's Progress Volume I, Pierrette and the Abbe Birotteau, Parisians in the Country, A Princess's Secrets, The Jealousies of a Country Town, The Middle Classes, Old Goriot, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, The Country Doctor, The Chouans, The Peasantry, Beatrix, Ursule Mirouet, The Member for Arcis, Seraphita, The Quest of the Absolute, Lost Illusions, Cousin Pons. MEASUREMENTS: 8 1/2" x 6". CONDITION: Several loose front pages. Ex Libris stamp "The J. Herman Bosler Memorial Library, Carlisle PA", "Discarded".