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The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Modern Library #98.4)
by MAUPASSANT, Guy de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. [c.1959]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting a selection of 45 short stories written from 1883 to 1893 by the master French storyteller Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Selected, and with an introduction by Saxe Commins. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1945 date appears in book). ML #98.4. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, sturdy and unmarked but with dulling to cover & spine gilding. A weakened front hinge has been repaired on this item. Price-clipped, brittle dust jacket with severe chipping along top edge; some additional chips and scuffed spots, but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiv, 551, (10, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87741
- Title
- The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Modern Library #98.4)
- Author
- MAUPASSANT, Guy de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1959]
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Littleton, Colorado
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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