New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1957]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of the biography of the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, from a French perspective. During his term, Britain greatly strengthened her worldwide empire. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. With an unattributed biographical note about the author. Jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer image of Disraeli to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #46.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket with severe sunning to spine (title is readable) & slight chipping and rubbing to extremities but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xiii, 379 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 83569
Title: Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age (Modern Library #46.2)
Author: MAUROIS, André
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.1957]
Bookseller catalogs: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>England, UK and UK History;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
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...