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Memoires d'une Poupee, Contes Dedies aux Petites Filles par Mlle. Louise D'Aulnay, Cinquieme edition (5th edition); English translation: Memories of a Doll, Stories dedicated to Little Girls
by D'AULNAY, Mlle. Louise [pseud. Julie GOURAUD]
- Used
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, 1850. Cloth. Very good +. Small 8vo; 188pp; gilt stamped dark brown, blind stamped borders, red and green accents to gilt frame around title on front cover, gilt stamped pictorial to rear cover, spine gilt stamped in elaborate decoration with red and green accents; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt; 12 hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards including frontispiece, small uncolored engraved illustrations; a few small page spots, back hinge paper cracked but firm, rear free endpaper with old pencil inscription; very good plus. Exuberant gilt cover decorations to this small book with a juvenile audience. The cover and hand-colored plates make this book special.
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- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 721
- Title
- Memoires d'une Poupee, Contes Dedies aux Petites Filles par Mlle. Louise D'Aulnay, Cinquieme edition (5th edition); English translation: Memories of a Doll, Stories dedicated to Little Girls
- Author
- D'AULNAY, Mlle. Louise [pseud. Julie GOURAUD]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Amedee Bedelet
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- French Language, Fiction, Doll Story
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Thomaston, Maine
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- 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....
- Gilt
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
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