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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
by Burton, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
-
Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Second edition. Octavo. Title page in red and black. Original tan wrappers stamped in brown; yap edges. No dust jacket. Very good. 99 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Copy #6 of 50 copies printed on Japan vellum. Hatch 85.
Together with a copy of the 1917 printing. Tenth edition. 125 pages; with frontispiece portrait of Burton. Grey boards, yap edges, tan spine. Limited to 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Hatch 659.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2222317
- Title
- The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
- Author
- Burton, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1898
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Houle Rare Books & Autographs
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About the Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Biblio member since 2009
Palm Springs, California
About Houle Rare Books & Autographs
2699 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262By appointment only.
Glossary
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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