How Paris Amuses Itself
by F. Berkeley Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
"How Paris Amuses Itself" by F. Berkeley Smith. 1903 1st edition, 1st printing (May); Funk & Wagnalls Company; New York. The book is profusely illustrated with full-page color plates (with tissue guards), full-page black & white illustrations, photographs, and in-text drawings. The contents are as followed: The Shows of the Champs-Elysees; Paris Dines; Some 'Risque' Curtains with Serious Linings; Bars and Boulevards; In the Cabarets; Circuses and Fetes Foraines; Grease Paint and Powder Puffs; In Parisian Waters.
Condition:
Clean covers; some very light soiling on the spine. There is a 3/4" cloth tear at the bottom edge of the front cover; the back cover has a tiny cloth tear at the left edge. Sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the pages are mostly clean with only some very light foxing on the blank back-side of the frontispiece, a stain at the outer edge of pages 82 & 83, and a stain at the upper-inner corner of the contents page (with the same stain appearing on the page facing it). Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7959
- Title
- How Paris Amuses Itself
- Author
- F. Berkeley Smith
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- f berkeley Smith, how Paris Amuses Itself, France, champs-elysess, burlesque, circuses, boulevards, Eiffel tower, arc de triomphe, cabaret
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- Non-Fiction; Other;
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