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L'Age Dangereux
by MICHAELIS, Karin (traduction et introduction de Marcel Prevost)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alphonse Lemerre, Paris (with rare bookplate), 1911. 1st Edition and 1st printing thus. HARDCOVER. From the collection of wealthy society hostess Mary Hunter (1856-1933) who was sculpted in marble by Auguste Rodin and painted by John Singer Sargent. With a fine example of her ornately engraved bookplate showing a vampire bat holding onto an inverted heart on the front paste-down end-paper. In later life Mary Hunter was a wealthy and well connected society hostess Octavo size (8vo) bound in brown cloth with gilt embossed title to leather panel on spine and 'Hill Hall Theydon Mount' lettered in gilt on the front cover (binding by Hatchards). 261pp, text in French __CONDITION : Mild tanning to preliminary leaves and page-block edges else FINE, a well preserved very clean and tight copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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- Bookseller
- David Bunnett Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TN231060
- Title
- L'Age Dangereux
- Author
- MICHAELIS, Karin (traduction et introduction de Marcel Prevost)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition and 1st printing thus
- Publisher
- Alphonse Lemerre, Paris (with rare bookplate)
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION FRENCH
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London, London
About David Bunnett Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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