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BABIOLE
by Boisgobey, Fortune du (Non de plume for Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille)
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No jacket as issued
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Libraire Plon, E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1884. 1st Edition. Leather. Near Fine/No jacket as issued. 2 volumes. 12mo., (Vol. 1) 276; [Vol. 2) 266 pp. Bound in speckled half calf with marbled paper over boards. Titles on morocco labels on spine in gilt. Edges of text block speckled in green, red and blue. Free end papers browned at edges where in contact with the cover's leather. End pages very lightly foxed. A handsome set, elegantly bound. Near Fine. ****This binding matches, and is a companion of our Inventory # 00405, 00406, and 00408, to be a matching set of 7 volumes of Boisgobey novels, all in speckled half calf.**** Text in French****.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000407
- Title
- BABIOLE
- Author
- Boisgobey, Fortune du (Non de plume for Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille)
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Libraire Plon, E. Plon, Nourrit et cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Speckled calf, french, france, fiction,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Frey Fine Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frey Fine Books
Biblio member since 2019
Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
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