THE MAGIC SKIN
by BALZAC, HONORE DE:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
The Caxton Publishing Company, London, nd. This vol only, Caxton edition, green boards, gilt titles on spine and embossed emblem centre front board in gilt, page edges rough cut, top edge gilt, 394pp, illus, G+ (binding holding however first section missing ie Frontis plate title and half title, and mid contents, boards v sl rubbed, sl bruised corners with v sl surface loss, sl bumped spine head & foot, sl edge wear, v sl paste action to prelims)
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- Title
- THE MAGIC SKIN
- Author
- BALZAC, HONORE DE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Caxton Publishing Company, London, nd
- Keywords
- honore de balzac la comedie humaine
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- Plate
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- G+
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- 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...