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Béatrix The Edition Definitive of the Human Comedy, Scenes of Private Life, Volume X (Limited Edition)
by BALZAC, Honoré de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Philadelpha: George Barrie's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Hardcover. An American reprint edition of Balzac's novel, one of many in the Scenes of Private Life portion of his monumental series of interlinked novels, "The Human Comedy" ("La Comédie humaine"). Rendered into English from the French by George Burnham Ives. Volume X only in this special definitive edition, number 7 of 300 sets printed. Though title page mentions "illustrated with etchings" only one can be found, at frontis. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling on paper spine label; top edge gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- The spine label is sunned, making it unreadable; with tear to cloth at spine and with crease to front cover corner, some light dampstains to many leaves and inkings to front free endpaper, otherwise a sound copy. NOTE: Many pages unopened.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 525 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81187
- Title
- Béatrix The Edition Definitive of the Human Comedy, Scenes of Private Life, Volume X (Limited Edition)
- Author
- BALZAC, Honoré de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- George Barrie's Sons
- Place of Publication
- Philadelpha
- Date Published
- 1897
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Title Page
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
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- 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....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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