The Travels of Marco Polo
by Polo, Marco; Manuel Komroff (editor)
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- Condition
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Full dark purple leather (hard cover), gilt titles and embossed design to front and rear boards, raised bands, silk ribbon page marker, all edges gilt, silk moire endpages, (8.5 x 5.75 inches). Collector's Edition. 477 pages; Illustrated by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin, Introduction by Douglas M. Painter, Revised and Editied with Foreward by Manuel Komroff. A title from The Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Publisher's Collector's Notes laid-in. A clean, tight copy in "as new" condition. Collector's Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin. Octavo.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006116
- Title
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- Author
- Polo, Marco; Manuel Komroff (editor)
- Illustrator
- Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Easton Press; Collector's Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Easton Press;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Laid-in
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- Raised Band(s)
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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