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The French: Portrait of a People
by De Gramont, Sanche
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket in Archival Protective Cover. A perceptive and entertaining look at France, its people, its culture, and way of life. De Gramont explains why the French are admired, detested, misunderstood, and unique. Binding of burgundy cloth with blind-stamped decoration on front, sharp and bright gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked, no wear to extremities. Sewn binding tight & solid, square with sharp edges. Rough cut. Upper and lower edges of text block have scaattered spots. Gold endpapers. Pages quite clean and there are no markings of any kind, lightly toned. Jacket is generally clean with small amout of spotting along spine and upper edge, spine head and heel chipped and wrinkled, a small closed tear to upper front edge of spine head. 479 pages with index. 6 x 8.75 inches. 1969, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025254
- Title
- The French: Portrait of a People
- Author
- De Gramont, Sanche
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FRANCE-SOCIAL CUSTOMS, CULTURE,THE ARTS; HISTORY, FRENCH; ARISTOCRACY; BISMARCK, OTTO VON; BLUM, LEON; COLONIALISM; FRENCH COURTS; JUSTICE; DE GAULLE, CHARLES; FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR; NAPOLEON; PARIS; VICHY GOVERNMENT;
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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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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