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Jean Christophe: La Fin du Voyage: Le Buisson Ardent
by Rolland, Romain
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1912. Hard Cover. Very Good. [8], 339, [1] p.; 19 cm. Half green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Publisher's advertisements facing title page. Red, green, and yellow ribbon bookmark. Bookbinder's stamp on verso of front free endpaper: Brentano's New York. This is volume 9 of the author's series Jean Christophe, and volume 2 of the subsection La Fin du Voyage. 74th edition. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned--green leather is brown; three of four corners are also largely brown; several pages carelessly opened; paper is browning, as is typical; otherwise pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001871
- Title
- Jean Christophe: La Fin du Voyage: Le Buisson Ardent
- Author
- Rolland, Romain
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Librairie Paul Ollendorff
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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