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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
by BUTLER Samuel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931 first edition in the Life and Letters Series (number 25), a reissue of the revised edition of 1913, olive cloth which has been well sunned to the boards fading them to green-yellow, the spine is still green-olive coloured but rubbed to joints and edges with titling indistinguishable, ink gift inscription to paste down, endpapers and closed edges slightly foxed, 335pp + folding map, line illustrations in the text, Butler on the church buildings of the Italian and Swiss alps, with their history and architecture. revised. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011972
- Title
- Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
- Author
- BUTLER Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- revised
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Swiss Italian Alps Travel Literature Non-Fiction Samuel Butler European History
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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