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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
by Bishop, Morris
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cornell University Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. ix, 282 pp. Navy cloth, silver gilt spine lettering and cover design, frontispiece. Extremities just faintly sunned, tips a bit nudged, partial owner bookplate to FFEP, otherwise a very sharp copy. DJ sunned, chipped, some tears with minor loss.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arches Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6436
- Title
- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
- Author
- Bishop, Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Arches Bookhouse
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Arches Bookhouse
Biblio member since 2022
Portland, Oregon
About Arches Bookhouse
Brick & mortar humanities bookshop in Portland, OR. Philosophy, history, theology, literature, art.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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