Balzac's Short Stories (Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 15; Little Blue Book No. 15)

Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Faded blue wraps with light soiling to exterior. Stapled binding beginning to wear with tear at top of book. Some minor edge wear to corners of some pages and general light edge wear to wraps. 96pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened. No writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) tall. .