Notes on Balzac's Lost Illusions

This title may have come in two first Edition bindings. The Guide describes a type 6 giant binding, but there's also one that looks like an overgrown type 12 regular series with a blind-stamped ML on the front cover with most of the cover inscribed in a rectangle with two curved corners (style G6a).

Barry Neavill reports that the binding for "Lost Illusions -- the only Giant published in spring 1967 -- appears to be a transitional binding between G6 and G7 that was used only for a single season." [Sun, 30 Jul 2006, ML Mailing List posting]

No one has as yet reported seeing this title in the type 6 binding, but type G6a has been verified.


First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     [likely] G6a (click here to see it)

First inverse DJ number:     [ none ]

Dates in print:     1967 (Spring) - 1970 
                             1985 - 1986 (reprint)

Toledano number:   G097.1


GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?      no


Genre:     novel

Original language:      French

Translator:      Raine


Thanks to:

Henry Toledano Amy Comeau Barry Neavill
John Wolansky Debra M. Rosser-Hogben Bill Hornick

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