Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks [Riverside Edition vol. X]
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1899]. Reprint. Octavo (20cm). Half brown calf and marbled paper, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; 574pp; frontispiece etching by Ross Turner. Light rubbing to joints and edges, spine gilt dulled, but very sound: Very Good.
Handsome reprint of CLARK B9.X, dated 1899 on copyright page.
Handsome reprint of CLARK B9.X, dated 1899 on copyright page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60241
- Title
- Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks [Riverside Edition vol. X]
- Author
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- [1899]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900;
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...