The book-hunter in Paris: studies among the bookstalls and the quays, by Octave Uzanne. With a preface by Augustine Birrell
by Uzanne, Octave
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Eliot Stock. Used - Very Good. 1893. Dec. cloth, 232 pp., illus. Publisher's decoartive binding a little rubbed at corners; closed tear at head of spine. A contemporary review is pasted in at the rear. Overall, quite sound. Top edge gilt. Prev. owner's bookplate (Abel Berland). (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S42892
- Title
- The book-hunter in Paris: studies among the bookstalls and the quays, by Octave Uzanne. With a preface by Augustine Birrell
- Author
- Uzanne, Octave
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eliot Stock
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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