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Henrietta Temple, A Love Story
by Disraeli, Benjamin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Baudry's European Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1837. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing, light foxing throughout, label remnants on spine.; Quarter calf, blue cloth boards with floral design in blind, gilt spine titles, design, and rule, marbled endpapers, page edges dyed blue. Based loosely on Disraeli's relationship with Henrietta Sykes, and published the same year in the US. ; Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; Vol. 158; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Boards and Wraps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Henrietta Temple, A Love Story
- Author
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Baudry's European Library
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1837
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- Rubbing
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- Calf
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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