The Country Doctor
by Honore de Balzac
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. Caxton Edition. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. From the Comedie Humaine. With illustrated frontispiece. Rough cut pages. Upper text block edge gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and rear pastedown. A few edge tears and creases, as expected with rough cut paper. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Gilt is bright. Transparent sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1646392152ADA
- Title
- The Country Doctor
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Caxton Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1899
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...