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Intimate Journals
by Baudelaire, Charles (Translated by Ch. Isherwood, Introduction by T. S. Eliot
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/No dust jacket. Slipcase fair
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Blackamore Press, 1930. Limited edition.. Hardback. Very good/No dust jacket. Slipcase fair. The Blackamore Press, London, 1930. First English edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is no 153. Hardback. 8vo. 126pp. Book condition: very good. Just very slight shelf wear around the edges. Spine very slightly discoloured. Gilt titles to spine and facsimile signature in gilt to front all bright. Top edge gilt. Internally, the book is very clean with just a little light tanning to the free endpapers. No dust jacket. The book has a blue slip case which is in fair condition. Upper edge splitting to approx three-quarters of its length on one side. Corners a little bumped and rubbed. No 153 in ink to upper edge (presumably the limited edition number). Illustrations reproducing Baudelaire's drawings. Translated by Christopher Isherwood with an introduction by T. S. Eliot. A very nice copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1303165
- Title
- Intimate Journals
- Author
- Baudelaire, Charles (Translated by Ch. Isherwood, Introduction by T. S. Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket. Slipcase fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Blackamore Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Poetry,Charles Baudelaire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
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