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Das Gemeindekind
by Ebner-Eschenbach; Marie Von
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Berlin: Gebruder Paetel, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 272, [2], pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth with cover designs in black and in gilt. Moderate wear to the binding, which is a bit toned about the edges. Spine a little dulled. A sound copy. The front flyleaf has a nice bookplate from "The Booklovers Library / Library of Foreign Literature / ...Seymour Eaton, Librarian" from Philadelphia. Early owner's 1905 inscription on the half title. Text is toned. Text in German.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050185
- Title
- Das Gemeindekind
- Author
- Ebner-Eschenbach; Marie Von
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gebruder Paetel
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1901; Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach; German Language; Literature; Fiction; Bookplate; Booklover's Library; Philadelphia; Seymour Eaton.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Languages;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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