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The Wife of King Candaules
by Gautier, Theophile
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wisdom House, 1942. Book. Illus. by Richard Roth, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover limited first U.S. edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Two-color frontispiece illustration; additional illustrations by Richard Roth. With an Introduction by Anatole France. 124 pages. Limitation page states "This Edition of The Wife of King Candaules is limited to 975 copies of which this is Number (blank). Dust jacket is not price clipped (5.00 on front inside flap), has some light spotting, water stain at lower front right corner; shallow chipping at spine ends, a few short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033846
- Title
- The Wife of King Candaules
- Author
- Gautier, Theophile
- Illustrator
- Richard Roth, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Wisdom House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Theophile Gautier, erotica, Richard Roth, limited edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Limited Editions;
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
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