Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Savage, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Diziesme (10th) edition. Includes 425 illustrations by Gustave Dore in black and white. Octavo. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine and black boxed pattern to front and back covers. Sunning to spine. Cover shows signs of wear, with a small crack to bottom of gutter of front cover and cracked gutters on inside front and back covers. Pages and bright and clean, but with some foxing to many pages. 615 pages. FRELANG/082422.
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- Bookseller
- The Kelmscott Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35978
- Title
- Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs
- Place of Publication
- Paris
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About the Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop
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Savage, Maryland
About The Kelmscott Bookshop
Our bookshop is open by appointment only in Historic Savage Mill. We specialize in artists' books, private press, William Morris, and general rare and antique books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.