Le Morte d'Arthur : The Story of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table
by Malory, Thomas
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Golden Cockerel Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover in slipcase. 3 vols. 4to (12.5" x 7.5"), half blue cloth with decorative blue and white paper over boards, gilt author & title at spines. Vol. 1: xv, 222 pp.; Vol. 2: 269 pp.; Vol. 3: 273 pp. B&w illus. throughout all vols. Previous owner's initials in pencil on front paste-down of vol. 1. CONDITION: Very good, light dampstains and dust-spots on bottom of text-block edges of all three volumes, light wear to extremities. Slipcase worn at extremities, some splitting along edges but still reasonably intact. One of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Robert Gibbings. This copy number 1241.
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- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8180
- Title
- Le Morte d'Arthur : The Story of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table
- Author
- Malory, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Golden Cockerel Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1936
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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James Arsenault & Company
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Arrowsic, Maine
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Glossary
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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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...