The Affairs of Flavie
by Chevallier, Gabriel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good - Very Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - Very Good. 280 pp, 15 chapters. French title: Les Heritiers Euffe. Translated from the French by Jocelyn Godefroi. Here is Gallic wit and exuberance at its Rabelaisian best! This gay yet detailed study of bourgeois life in the provincial town of Grenoble, with its gossping, scandals, ambitions, and intrigues has the wry wit and racy quality of a good French movie. It is the scandalous story of the heirs of a rich Grenoble. merchant who, on the way to visit his mistress, was (unhappily enough) killed by a vase falling from Flavie Lacil's window (From the Inside Jacket Flap). Chipped at top edge spine with two 1" + tears to rear panel, a small chip at bottom and soiled rear panel. Slightly frayed at bottom tip of front board with lightly age-tanned endpapers, else, clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002675
- Title
- The Affairs of Flavie
- Author
- Chevallier, Gabriel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good - Very Good
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...