The Collected Tales of Pierre Louys
by Louys, Pierre; Illustrated by Siegel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
n.p.: Privately Printed, 1930. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; deep beige spine with black text; dust jacket shows modest darkening, most likely due to age; several chips to edges; open chip to mid spine; Brodart clear wrap to jacket; cloth exterior clean; text block edges have age toned; deckled fore edge; offsetting toning to endpapers; inked date to front endpaper; frontispiece; slight defect to gutter at pp 64-65, 140-141 and 186-187; faint damp staining to head edges to most pages; illustrated with several plates; pp 293. 1366518. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1366518
- Title
- The Collected Tales of Pierre Louys
- Author
- Louys, Pierre; Illustrated by Siegel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- n.p.
- Date Published
- 1930
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About the Seller
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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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