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Torture Garden
by Mirbeau, Octave (Alvah C. Bessie, translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Levittown, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Claude Kendall, 1931. Marbled covers, spine backed cloth lettered in gilt (gilt rubbed off, still legible). 8vo. 284pp. Black and white illustrations by Jeanette Seelhoff. Foreword by James Huneker. Slight spine lean, else a clean and tightly bound, very good plus book, lacking the dust jacket. . 1st American Edition. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albert Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005357
- Title
- Torture Garden
- Author
- Mirbeau, Octave (Alvah C. Bessie, translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Publisher
- Claude Kendall
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- IMAGE SCAN; Literature in Translation;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Albert Books
Biblio member since 2004
Levittown, New York
About Albert Books
Here at Albert Books we have been collecting and selling fine literature for over forty years. We now offer a portion of our collection of approximately 10,000 books to you, online, at reasonable prices. Our specialties include first editions of American and English literature, including Poetry, Theater & Plays, Limited Editions Club Books, and some Mystery & Science Fiction. We also feature a rather large and varied selection of Literature in Translation.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....