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Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, ND. First Thus. Half-Leather Binding. Good+. Lucien Rudaux. Large 8vo. Pp. 206 with the last two pages consisting of the Table des Matieres. Frontis. engraving by Lucien Rudaux, along with many plates and textural illustrations. Marbled endpapers. Green silk bookmark bound-in. Bound in quarter brown morocco, featuring a marbled affect, with four raised bands, over marbled-paper covered boards. Gilt lettering and astronomical symbols stamped on spine. Corners worn and with foxing, moderate to heavy, on the first third of the text block. Bookseller tag (Ernest Martin, "Ancienne Librairie," Paris) on front pastedown. A Flammarion work of science fiction, perhaps his best-known, which was influenced by his studies into para-psychology. Rudaux's illustrations successfully evoke the fantastic collection of dialogs between a human and the soul of a universe-hopping alien who has been reincarnated in many different worlds, presented here in handsome binding that hints at the work's supernatural conceits.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6990
- Title
- Lumen
- Author
- FLAMMARION, Camille
- Illustrator
- Lucien Rudaux
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Ernest Flammarion, Editeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- ND
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- ND
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- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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