Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant
by De Maupassant, Guy; Edited With An Introduction By Commins, Saxe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Random House, New York, 1950, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Adolf Dehn. Quarto, hardcover, pages tanned at edges else VG in brown decorative cloth with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. No dust jacket. 334 pp. An anthology of short stories of De Maupassant. illustrated in black & white with great drawings. Some of the stories are: A Country Excursion, The Devil, The Mad Woman, Babette and more.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50873
- Title
- Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant
- Author
- De Maupassant, Guy; Edited With An Introduction By Commins, Saxe
- Illustrator
- Adolf Dehn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House, New York, 1950
- Date Published
- 1950
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Concord, California
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- VG
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