The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Translation, with introduction and notes by John Ormsby (Volume 2 only of 4)
by CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Volume 2 only of a 4-volume set presenting the great novel by Spain's Cervantes. The translator, John Ormsby, has rendered this work into English, and has provided numerous explanatory footnotes along with the text. --- A compact copy, in blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations to cover and spine along with gilt spine titling; TEG (top edge gilt). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An excellent copy: tightly-bound and unmarked, but with small tear to paper at gutter near front of book.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; vii, (2), 439 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85879
- Title
- The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Translation, with introduction and notes by John Ormsby (Volume 2 only of 4)
- Author
- CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Good+
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- 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...