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L'Invitation au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage
by Beaudelaire, Charles; Prince, Pamela (Editor); Handel, Jane (Editor); Wilbur, Richard (Translator); Cosman, Carol (Translator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0821223984
- ISBN 13
- 9780821223987
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Bullfinch Press/Little Brown and Company, 1997. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stunningly illustrated with 22 photographs by different artists, this is a bilingual edition (both French & English) of an 1854 poem from "The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Beaudelaire. Unpaginated. Invitation to a San Francisco book launch party hosted by the book's creators at the Hotel Rex on Valentine's Day, 1997 laid in; it is pristine. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from that year, this hardcover 8vo has a soft chocolate brown cloth-covered spine, with lighter brown cloth over the remaining boards. Photographic paper pastedown featuring an image by Nadar to front, deep brown lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: flawless save for 3 tiny pin prick holes to front cover along fore edge.Else, completely clean & bright, binding straight & strong, pages creamy white. No DJ, as issued. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021441
- Title
- L'Invitation au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage
- Author
- Beaudelaire, Charles; Prince, Pamela (Editor); Handel, Jane (Editor); Wilbur, Richard (Translator); Cosman, Carol (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0821223984
- ISBN 13
- 9780821223987
- Publisher
- Bullfinch Press/Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- FRANCE FRENCH POEM POET POETRY LOVE PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOS BEAUDELAIRE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Foreign (non-English) Language;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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