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Heinrich Heine's Romancero
by HEINE, Heinrich; Heinrich Laube, ed
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Wien: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, n.d., ca. 1894. Illustrirte Pracht-Ausgabe. Large octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth elaborately tooled in black and gilt, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, cream printed dust jacket, card slipcase with printed label affixed to upper panel; [6],232pp.; portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged, text printed within red rule throughout. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, spine a shade toned with tiny dampstain and short split at bottom inch of upper spine edge, contemporary gift inscription to front flyleaf dated 1894, else Fine in a Very Good and fresh copy of the very scarce dustwrapper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47140
- Title
- Heinrich Heine's Romancero
- Author
- HEINE, Heinrich; Heinrich Laube, ed
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrirte Pracht-Ausgabe
- Publisher
- Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger
- Place of Publication
- Wien
- Date Published
- n.d., ca. 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900; Germany;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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...
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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