A Magyar Anekdotakincs [Vol. 5] Gyujtötte és Magyarázza
by Béla, Tóth
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner Kiadása, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 375 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Embossed front cover illustration. No dust jacket. All page edges red. Brown patterned endpapers. Contains many charming in-text illustrations. Thesaurus Anecdoton Hungarorum. This is volume five of a six-volume work published from 1898 to 1903 compiled by Tóth Béla (1857-1907), a Hungarian author and cultural historian. In Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; spine is sunned; both joints have started to separate from the head of the spine; front free endpaper, half title page, title page, and first several leaves of text are detached but present; edges of front free endpaper and following few leaves are chipped; remaining pages are clean and tight. One volume of the very scarce first edition of Hungarian stories collected by Tóth Béla.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000789
- Title
- A Magyar Anekdotakincs [Vol. 5] Gyujtötte és Magyarázza
- Author
- Béla, Tóth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Singer és Wolfner Kiadása
- Place of Publication
- Budapest
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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