Port-Tarascon, dernières aventures de l'illustre Tartarin
by Alphonse Daudet
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: E. Dentu, , 1890. Collection Guillaume (Edition du Figaro). Original colour pictorial soft cover wraps beautifully bound in quarter vellum. Binding by Birdsall & Son. Northampton. Vellum spine and corners, with raised bands on the spine, Gilt title on red leather label, with gilt decorated panels, and floral motif.Brown faced boards, with gilt decorated vellum edges. All edges gilt. 6.5 X 8.75 inches.Foxing to endpapers, original pages all quite clane throughout. Very good finely bound copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bieler, Conconi, Montegut, Montenard, Myrbach Et Rossi.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008135
- Title
- Port-Tarascon, dernières aventures de l'illustre Tartarin
- Author
- Alphonse Daudet
- Illustrator
- Bieler, Conconi, Montegut, Montenard, Myrbach Et Rossi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. Dentu,
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1890
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
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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...
- Edges
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- Vellum
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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....
- Jacket
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- Raised Band(s)
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- First Edition
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