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Pierre et Jean and Other Tales: A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant--VOLUME V
by MAUPASSANT, GUY DE
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: The Review of Reviews Co, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Binding of purple cloth with five low ridges on spine, gilt titled, with decoration. Spine sunned. Clean with light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and lower edge of text block have a couple of pale smudged areas. Tight and solid sewn binding. A foxing spot on paste-down-didn't find any anyplace else. Frontis tissue protected, captioned in green on side facing frontis illustration, after the original drawing by Albert Lynch, in browntones. Chapter headings illustrated with small line drawings. Internals clean, no marks, no creases. Guy de Maupassant's stories have a self-renewing vitality, assuming fresh force for each generation of readers with changing standards. A French short story writer and novelist of the 19the Century (1850-1893) and a sometimes member of the naturalist school (but mostly his own 'school' which is hard to classify). He chose for subjects chiefly from Norman peasant life, the Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoise, and the fashionable life of Paris. 320 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. Publisher: The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1903.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015686
- Title
- Pierre et Jean and Other Tales: A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant--VOLUME V
- Author
- MAUPASSANT, GUY DE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Review of Reviews Co
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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