Fables de La Fontaine
by Fontaine, Jean de la; Translated by Lambert Sauveur
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: F.W. Christern , 1877. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 276 pages. Hardcover bound in black cloth. There is moderate wear to the binding, which is bumped at the edges and slightly frayed. Covers are rubbed. The outer edges of the text block are heavily toned. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front endpaper. The text is toned but clean and sound. Text is in French. This is NOT an illustrated edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051307
- Title
- Fables de La Fontaine
- Author
- Fontaine, Jean de la; Translated by Lambert Sauveur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- F.W. Christern
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1877
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1877; Lambert Sauveur; Jean de La Fontaine; Fables; Free Verse; Children's Fables; Children's Stories; French Literature; French Language
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Literature & Fiction; Languages;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...