Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac | 1928 | Garden City Publishing Edition | Bixley Shop Antique founded the experimental Malabar Farm

founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield

Gorgeous Mid-Century woodcut illustrations by David Gentleman bring the story of Saint George and the Dragon to life in this masterful children's book by John Langstaff published in 1973

this is a lovely gift for the stamp collector in your life

" From the preface

Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac | 1928 | Garden City Publishing Edition | Bixley Shop Antique founded the experimental Malabar FarmA beautiful edition of Balzac's Droll Stories published by Garden City Publishing in 1928. ABOUT DROLL STORIES (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honor de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by Franois Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French;