Salammbo
by Flaubert, Gustave
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Saxon & Co, 1886. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 100 copies signed by M. French Sheldon, Henry Morton Stanley, and Edward King. Translated by. M. French Sheldon. Very Good. Leather binding by Zaehnsdorf, faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges and joints. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, silk endpapers with a small chip to the front endpaper, label inside the front board, Royal Yacht Squadron label on the verso of the front endpaper, additional inscription on one of the front flyleaves. Flaubert's best-selling historical fiction about the theft of a sacred veil after the First Punic War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9273
- Title
- Salammbo
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Saxon & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, French Literature, 19th Century Literature, Roman History, Ancient Rome, Histories, Classics, Carthage
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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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....
- Gilt
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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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...