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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian (The Modern Readers' Series)
by Polo, Marco
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1926. First edition thus. The Modern Readers' Series. Half leather. Published NY: Macmillan, 1926, first printing. 12mo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", xxxiii+392pp., illustrated with partial color fold out map. Edited with an Introduction by George B. Parks. Half green leather over green linen cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers. Short, closed tear at the crown, light rub at spine ends, touch of darkening to area on front edge of page block, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Else near fine, tight, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009449
- Title
- The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian (The Modern Readers' Series)
- Author
- Polo, Marco
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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