The Oxford Book of Italian Verse: xiiith Century - xixth Century (Italian Text).
by St. John Lucas (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, UK Oxford at the The Clarendon Press, 1912. Leather Bound Very Good+ to Near Fine: shows only mild rubbing to the panels and to the extremities; s bit of faint staining to two pages mid-text. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy; structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear only. Bright and Clean. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.75 x 4.5 x 1 inches). 576 pages. Introduction by the Editor. Language: Italian. Full leather dark brown calf over boards with gilt titles at the backstrip The backstrip shows raised bands and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers with gilt designs surrounding the pastedown endpapers, front and rear. All Edges Gilt. Probably the blue cloth edition of 1912 rebound by a previous owner, but we find no explicit evidence of this. Weight: 15.5 ounces. Full Leather Binding.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 52618
- Title
- The Oxford Book of Italian Verse: xiiith Century - xixth Century (Italian Text).
- Author
- St. John Lucas (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford at the The Clarendon Press,
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK
- Date Published
- 1912.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature: World; Italian Literature;
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- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Raised Band(s)
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