Of Aucassin and Nicolette: A Translation in Prose and Verse from the Old French, Together with Amabel and Amoris
by Housman, Laurence
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- Hardcover
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- Good/Fair
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair jacket. 1930 Chatto & Windus, London. Reprint of 1925 edition. NOT ex-library. Small hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with black spine lettering. Illustrated light red endpapers have twining rose vine pattern in white. Black and white illustrations: "drawings by Paul Woodroffe, engraved on the Wood by Clemence Housman". Binding getting loose in a few places in the text, with webbing peeking at page group divisions. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have some shallow dents. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Partially erased pencil notation on front endpaper, in one corner. A few very small stray ink pen marks on title page. Pages clean and unmarked. 106 pages. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear and toning at the edges, with small pieces (about one-inch long and on-half inch wide) missing at the corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Dust jacket is in clear protective plastic cover. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- SmarterRat Books
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- 8403
- Title
- Of Aucassin and Nicolette: A Translation in Prose and Verse from the Old French, Together with Amabel and Amoris
- Author
- Housman, Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1930
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- Literature
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- Literature;
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