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THE STORY OF DOCTOR MANENTE, BEING THE TENTH AND LAST STORY FROM THE SUPPER OF A. F. GRAZZINI CALLED IL LASCA
by Lawrence, D. H. (trans.)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Florence: G. Orioli, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xxiv, 119, [3] pp., frontis, plates. Limited edition, numbered 380 of 1000 copies from the complete edition of 1200 copies. In printed paper vellum over flexible boards with printed dust jacket. All 3 plates including frontispiece are present as called for by Roberts and Poplawski. Bottom corners are a trifle bumped; spine very lightly sunned; occasional light foxing, mostly on and near the plates, one plate is more conspicuously affected than the others; dust jacket is quite fresh. This copy from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small booklabel at the rear. Roberts and Poplawski A45a.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8332
- Title
- THE STORY OF DOCTOR MANENTE, BEING THE TENTH AND LAST STORY FROM THE SUPPER OF A. F. GRAZZINI CALLED IL LASCA
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H. (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ binding
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G. Orioli
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- Good+
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- Plate
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- G
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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