Bibliomania: A Tale
by FLAUBERT, Gustave
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: The Rodale Press, 1954. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Wragg. 12mo. Quarter russet cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorative paper over boards. 42pp. Color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Spine a tad rubbed and endppers faintly age toned; small front flyleaf ownership signature. First of this edition, tight and nice. Flaubert penned this short tale at age fifteen in 1836, and the original manuscript (a bit of which is depicted on endpapers) came into the possession of Austrian writer/biographer and noted autograph collector Stefan Zweig (1881-1942).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47958
- Title
- Bibliomania: A Tale
- Author
- FLAUBERT, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Rodale Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; World Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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....