Therese Desqueyroux
by Francois Mauriac
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bernard Grasset, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. French language text. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Notable sunning to spine, with foxing overall. Water staining to surfaces. Light rubbing and marking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627931533PRI
- Title
- Therese Desqueyroux
- Author
- Francois Mauriac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bernard Grasset
- Date Published
- 1927
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...