La Morte Vivante
by [Nicolas Edme] Restif De La Bretonne
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Elizabethtown, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Maurice Glomeau, 1921. Limited edition. No. 319 of 500 copies (of a total edition of 565.) A tale of love, jealousy and marital intrigue in 18th century France. All text is in French. Four color plates with facing tissue guards. First separate edition of this story by Restif De La Brettone (1734-1806), libertine French printer and writer, the prolific author of more than 200 rambling novels and memoirs, often risqué or pornographic but laced with sentimental moralizing. Memorably described by the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica as a man who was "inordinately vain, of extremely relaxed morals, and perhaps not entirely sane. His books were written with haste, and their license of subject and language renders them quite unfit for general perusal." 58 pp. Paperbound 12mo. Textured cream colored wraps. Good with some external browning, chipping to the lower spine. Complete with the original glassine jacket, which is chipped along the spine but largely intact. Clean internally. Printed on quality Arches paper. Prior owner pencil inscription in the rear noting that he purchased this copy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1947.
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- Bookseller
- Lux Libri (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000014
- Title
- La Morte Vivante
- Author
- [Nicolas Edme] Restif De La Bretonne
- Illustrator
- A.-L. Manceaux
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Maurice Glomeau
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Limited Editions; Foreign Language;
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....