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Landmarks in French Literature
by Lytton Strachey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Williams and Norgate. Library Edition (demy 8vo). 1st thus (May 1923). 239pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. VG copy, binding square and tight, corners gently bumped, covers clean and bright, spine dulled and discoloured but gilt reasonably bright, internally very good, no dust jacket. Pencil initials on front pastedown of English Establishment artist Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991), the ex-husband of English writer and Bloomsbury group member Julia Strachey (1901-1979) who was the author's niece . Very Good. Hardcover. 1923.
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- Bookseller
- Object Relations, IOBA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024179
- Title
- Landmarks in French Literature
- Author
- Lytton Strachey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Williams and Norgate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Pages
- 239
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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