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Victor Hugo: His Life & Work
by G. Barnett Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$210.46NZ$157.84
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About This Item
Victor Hugo: His Life and Work by G. Barnett Smith
Hardback, 1885, first edition, scarce, published by Ward and Downey, London, 324 pages + viii and 3-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 3/4" by 5 1/2" by 1 1/4". Dark blue cloth binding, gilt edging to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Slight discolouration to spine but colour largely retained and quite vivid on boards, though some scuffing and light marking, but quite clean. Book has forward tilt. Clear signs of shelf-wear, bumped and slightly torn corners. Cracking to inner hinges, especially front one, slackness to binding though textblock holding together reasonably firmly. Page edges cut reasonably neatly and deckled. Edges also browned and scuffed. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. Frontispiece of the subject. Page surfaces quite clean, the odd mark but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-046
- Title
- Victor Hugo: His Life & Work
- Author
- G. Barnett Smith
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward and Downey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Pages
- 324 + viii
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Victor Hugo, Romantic Movement, Poet, Dramatist, Novelist, French Literature, Biography, Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
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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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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