All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor

All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials.

Baltimore. 1970. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition.

Baltimore. 1970. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Previous Owner's name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Worn Wrappers. ISBN: 0140442375. Translated from the French & With An Introduction by Donald Adamson. 339 pages. paperback. L237. The cover shows a detail from 'Portrait of an Artist in his Studio' by Theodore Gericault. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The fight for an inheritance is a recurrent theme in Balzac's work. In THE BLACK SHEEP he describes the struggle of two brothers, Joseph and Philippe Bridau, one an artist and the other an ex-officer, to recover their family fortune. The novel culminates in a duel of wits and ruthlessness between two notable villains, of the kind at which Balzac excels. Superior cunning triumphs where virtue fails, but at a price. THE BLACK SHEEP is one of the novels of the Human Comedy series. Besides being an exceptional narrative and character portrayal it contains a wonderfully vivid account of France in the gloomy years after the fall of Napoleon. inventory #28904.