Ballads & Lyrics of Old France with other Poems by A. Lang
by (LANG, Andrew, François Villon, Charles d'Orleans, Victor Hugo, Gérard De Nerval, and Others)
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Softcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. One of 925 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Octavo. Printed wrappers with yapp edges, glassine wrapper, and slipcase. An unopened copy with the publisher's 1896 catalog: "Autumn List of Books" laid in. Near fine in good moderately foxed glassine wrapper with opened fleur-de-lis seal, and fair only slipcase lacking the lower flap. *Bishop* 15.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383052
- Title
- Ballads & Lyrics of Old France with other Poems by A. Lang
- Author
- (LANG, Andrew, François Villon, Charles d'Orleans, Victor Hugo, Gérard De Nerval, and Others)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Poetry, FrenchLiterature, FinePress
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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