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Manon Lescaut
by Prevost, Abbe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1928. Limited ed. Hardcover. vg. 1/1850. Sm. folio. 198pp. Gray cloth with stamped brown lettering to cover. Translated from the French of the Abbe Prevost by D.C. Moylan with 11 illustrations by Alastair and an introduction by Arthur simmons. Head and tail of spine bumped. Top corners bumped and rubbed. Minor staining to boards. Red top edge. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. Decorated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Each plate is protected by a captioned tissue-guard. Printed on hand made paper. Overall very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12383
- Title
- Manon Lescaut
- Author
- Prevost, Abbe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead And Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- French literature, Antoine Francois Prevost, Alastair, German illustrator, 20th Century , French Novels, 18th century , Illustrations, Decadence, 1920s
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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