Quo Vadis", A Narrative of the Time of Nero [two volumes]
by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Binding designed by Julius Adolph Schweinfurth with his monogram to front cover. Two volumes in paper-backed cloth dust jackets, hardcovers, full blue cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to front covers and spines, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, magenta clay-coated endpapers, dust jackets with gilt lettering and decoration to spines, 8-1/4" tall, 355 + 352 pp., illustrations in photogravure by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett, Evert van Muyden, with photos of sculpture and architecture, color maps. Both front hinges over-opened, white soiling to front and rear panels of dust jacket of volume one. Extra postage required for priority or international shipping.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002176
- Title
- Quo Vadis", A Narrative of the Time of Nero [two volumes]
- Author
- Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- publishers binding
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
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Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...