Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant
by De Maupassant, Guy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1950. Small quarto, cloth spine over patterned paper covered boards. Edited, with an introduction, by Saxe Commins and illustrated with drawings bt Adolf Dehn. No name, no book-plate, etc. Very good+.. Reprint. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Adolf Dehn. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003425
- Title
- Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant
- Author
- De Maupassant, Guy
- Illustrator
- Adolf Dehn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Fiction, NOAMZ
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.