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La Belle Bete
by Blais Marie Claire
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Quebec: Institut Litteraire Du Quebec. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Firstr Edition. White Paperback in Very Good+ condition, the binding is tight with clean & bright pages. The DJ is Good, spine browning and tear to front spine hinge, wear to the covedr edges. "La Belle Bete, Summary: Dans une grande ferme d'une région rurale du Québec, à une époque que l'on devine frileusement drapée dans La Grande Noirceur, vivent les membres d'une bien étrange famille. Le père est mort depuis longtemps. La mère, Louise, riche propriétaire, est une coquette qui aspire au luxe et à la beauté. Sa fille aînée, Marie-Isabelle, une laideronne au corps maigre et à l'intelligence farouche, ne lui inspire que honte et mépris. Dieu merci, il y a Patrice, La Belle Bête." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 214 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27129
- Title
- La Belle Bete
- Author
- Blais Marie Claire
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Institut Litteraire Du Quebec
- Place of Publication
- Quebec
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- French Canadian Literature, FAMILIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana; Family & Relationships;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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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