PÈRE GORIOT
by Balzac, Honoré De
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. 387 pages. One volume in the Franklin "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. Beautifully bound in green leather beautifully decorated in gilt; silk moiré endpapers; all-edges gilt. The leather is the high quality material used by Franklin only in their early years of publishing. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Eugène Abot. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1343
- Title
- PÈRE GORIOT
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré De
- Illustrator
- Eugène Abot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Franklin Library Leather Binding Decorated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...