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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA WRITTEN BY HIMSELF NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN TWELVE VOLUMES
by Jacques Casanova - translated by Arthur Machen
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, New York, United States
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About This Item
Privately Printed, 1894. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Good+ in quarter-bound cloth with paper-covered boards and paper labels at spine, gilt top page edges. Edge wear to boards, including bumps to corners and edges. Toning to labels at spine. Weak blemishes to front and rear panels. Small chips to front end pages of Volume 1. Stain to front cover of Volume 2. Top corner of the front end page of Volume 12 is clipped. A few smudges to spine, most noticeably to Volume 6. Text is unmarked. Twelve-volume set numbered 701. "Edition strictly limited to 750 sets on Albion laid deckle-edge paper." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Evolving Lens Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13412
- Title
- THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA WRITTEN BY HIMSELF NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN TWELVE VOLUMES
- Author
- Jacques Casanova - translated by Arthur Machen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Date Published
- 1894
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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