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Voyage Au Congo: Carnets De Route
by Gide, Andre
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris, France: Librairie Gallimard; Editions De La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1927. In French. Later printing, this edition, 1927. Illustrated with maps in black and white. Stunning binding in three quarter python snakeskin leather over marbled boards, brown spine label lettered in gilt, 249 pages plus contents page and colophon. The book was once the property of a family that lived in the Belgian Congo during the time period the book was published. Very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, lightly foxed endpapers, pages uniformly age-toned but clean, no names or other markings.. Quatrieme Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045450
- Title
- Voyage Au Congo: Carnets De Route
- Author
- Gide, Andre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Quatrieme Edition
- Publisher
- Librairie Gallimard; Editions De La Nouvelle Revue Francaise
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- WEST AFRICA TRAVEL CONGO EXOTIC LEATHER BINDING SNAKE SKIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration, International Culture; Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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