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The adventures of King Pausole
by Louys, Pierre; Lumley, Charles Hope (Trans)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Fortune Press , 1929. Number 283 of 1125 copies on Batchelor handmade paper. Famed erotic novel originally published in French 1901. CONDITION Navy wine cloth spine with bright gilt title, blue marbled bds, 312 pages with 7 illus plates in colour. Crns worn, bookplate to front paste down, mostly very bright with odd mark internally and discreet margin note in french to 4 pages. Overweight. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Beresford Egan . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15905
- Title
- The adventures of King Pausole
- Author
- Louys, Pierre; Lumley, Charles Hope (Trans)
- Illustrator
- Beresford Egan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Fortune Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Erotica;
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Ariel Books
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
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