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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris = Un grand homme de province a Paris
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Dana Estes and Company, 1901. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1901 Dana Estes & Company. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Translated by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by George Saintsbury. Hardcover has navy cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering; spine has gold Art-Nouveau-style illustration of a flowering plant. Top pages edges are gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Black and white plates with tissue guards. 340 pages. NOT ex-library. Both hinges just starting, with small breaks in the paper, but still intact. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Covers lightly soiled. Pages clean and unmarked. A few pages are tattered at the fore edge, where they were opened; some pages are unopened (uncut) at the fore edge. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13408
- Title
- A Distinguished Provincial at Paris = Un grand homme de province a Paris
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Dana Estes and Company
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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