Fables Choisies (Two Volumes)
by De La Fontaine, M
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: Louis Conard, 1930. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. First two volumes only (of a multi-volume set) with greeen leather spine and corners and marbelized paper-covered boards and marbelized endpapers. Tooled leather volume numbers and titles on spine (missing title on Volume 2). Gilt top edges. Bottom two inches of leather spine on Volume 1 is detached. The front board of volume 2 is completely detached and the leather spine is loose. Interior pages are clean and unmarked; binding is tight. Text in French. Decorations by Pierre Laprade and illustrations by Edmond Malassis and Fred Money; color engravings by Andre Baudier and Paul Baudier.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141887
- Title
- Fables Choisies (Two Volumes)
- Author
- De La Fontaine, M
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Louis Conard
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Myth/Lore/Fairy Tales;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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.