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ABEILLE Conte.
by FRANCE, Anatole. Illustrated by Carl Gehrts.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris, Charavay Freres editeurs, 1883.. FIRST EDITION 1883, French text, 320 x 250 mm, 12¾ x 10 inches, silver/grey cloth with coloured floral decoration and black lettering to upper cover, spine plain, all edges red, endpapers pale green, 74 pages + colophon page. Beautiful coloured frontispiece and 7 colour plates by Carl Gehrts, red ruled frame to all text pages. Spine very slightly faded, neat English inscription dated January 1884 on front endpaper, contents clean, 2 inner joints cracked but binding tight and firm. A very good plus copy. A wonderful fairy tale about the love of two children brought up as brother and sister, the one captured by water sprites, the other by dwarves. After many years apart they are eventually reunited. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A heavy book which will require extra postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46768
- Title
- ABEILLE Conte.
- Author
- FRANCE, Anatole. Illustrated by Carl Gehrts.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Paris, Charavay Freres editeurs, 1883.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fairy story children's French Carl Gehrts livre d'enfant francais illustre
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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