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Paris of To-day
by Whiteing, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Royal 8vo. [16], 1-249, [1] pp. Navy publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the boards and spine, a gilt decoration with red and blue on both boards, a white, orange, navy, and gold decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Light cream coated endpapers and pastedowns. Leaves printed in red and black. With a frontispiece, and black and white and in-text and full-page illustrations by André Castaigne. Beautifully illustrated, a lovely remembrance of Paris at the turn of the century. Minor wear to the boards' edges, one gathering in the beginning of the pageblock attached by only one cord.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000012588
- Title
- Paris of To-day
- Author
- Whiteing, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
Evening Star Books
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About the Seller
Evening Star Books
Biblio member since 2007
Madison, Wisconsin
About Evening Star Books
We buy and sell rare and fine books in many fields. Our interests include philosophy, modern first editions, and works of historical or intellectual interest. In addition to bookselling, we regularly do valuations and appraisals for non-IRS purposes. Evening Star Books is a Limited Liability Company.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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