Daphnis & Chloe
by Longus; Thornley, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Privately published for Rarity Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Austen, John. Purple cloth covered boards, 4to, 200 pages, frontispiece illustrated in color and numerous black and white illustrations by John Austen. Boards are clean and bright, bit of wear at spine ends, old booksellers label tipped into rear blank page, dust jacket rubbed and edge worn, chipping at extremities and a couple of closed edge tears, now in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of this beautiful love story of pastoral Greece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001511
- Title
- Daphnis & Chloe
- Author
- Longus; Thornley, George
- Illustrator
- Austen, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately published for Rarity Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ANCIENT GREECE ROMANCE EROTICA JOHN AUSTEN
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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
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- Cloth
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