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Billy Budd and Benito Cereno
by Melville, Herman
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. Full dark blue leather (hard cover), gilt titles and embossed design to front and rear boards, raised bands, silk ribbon page marker, all edges gilt, silk moire endpages, (10.75 x 7.25 inches). Collector's Edition. 176 pages; Illustrated by Robert Shore and Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. A title from The Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Publisher's Collector's Notes laid-in. A clean, tight copy in "as new" condition. Collector's Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Robert Shore. Tall Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006112
- Title
- Billy Budd and Benito Cereno
- Author
- Melville, Herman
- Illustrator
- Robert Shore
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- Tall Octavo
- Keywords
- Easton Press; Collector's Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Easton Press;
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
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