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Tartarin on the Alps
by Daudet, Alphonse
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good TEG/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Routledge, 1892. Gilt title on green cloth boards which have fading to spine and a touch of wear to top corner tips. Internally there is the usual darkening of endpapers and age toning of page edges else a clean, tight copy. 365 pages + index. Top edge gilt. Translated by Henry Frith. Printed on Japan Paper and profusely illustrated on most pages by Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi, engraved by Guillaume Brothers. **** SCARCE **** B2D. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good TEG/No Jacket. Illus. by Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000258
- Title
- Tartarin on the Alps
- Author
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Illustrator
- Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good TEG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- George Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- French Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Literature in Translation;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Goldring Books
Biblio member since 2005
Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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