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Atala
by Chateaubriand, Rene de. Vignettes gravees sur bois de Pierre Charbonnier
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Henry Jonquieres, 1925. Limited edition. Cloth. Very Good. Gilt decorated cloth covers with hand-colored vignette, all edges gilt, 12mo, 161 pp. One of 65 copies on Marais vellum paper (numbered 11-60 / 61-75 hors commerce), of a total edition of 555; this is no. 75. Small fraying tear at crown, dampstain at heel, corners of boards bumped with slight loss, foxing to endpapers and some page margins.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16395
- Title
- Atala
- Author
- Chateaubriand, Rene de. Vignettes gravees sur bois de Pierre Charbonnier
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Jonquieres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- , French Literature , , ,
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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