Jeanne D'Arc
by Boutet de Monvel, M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Plon-Nourrit & Cie. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1896]. First Edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition in linen cloth binding, stamped in green & gilt, blue endpapers, edges stained orange, in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper, close to near fine with minor, unobtrusive stain to front panel; illustrated in full color throughout, minute tape repair to one page, the occasional, rather negligible foxing. Quite scarce in dust-wrapper; Boutet de Monvel's masterpiece, "beautifully printed and exquisitely composed; " the author/illustrator is ranked alongside Caldecott & Greenaway "as a major figure in the 19th Century Golden Age of children's book illustration" (Silvie, Children's Books and Their Creators). ; Oblong 4to; 47, [1] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26650
- Title
- Jeanne D'Arc
- Author
- Boutet de Monvel, M
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Plon-Nourrit & Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- [1896]
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1890s;
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