Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
by Balzac
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Camden Hotten, 1874. Translated to English. Spine sunned with heavily chipped cloth, red boards fading, shaken, ink inscription to ffep, pp clean and bright. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Doré, Gustave. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49186
- Title
- Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
- Author
- Balzac
- Illustrator
- Doré, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....