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My Uncle Barbassou
by Uchard, Mario
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Vizetelly & Co, 1888. Hardcover. fair. Paul Avril. Lg. 8vo. 340 pp. Decorated brown cloth binding. Light rubbing to edges. Some scuffing to front. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Hinges starting to crack but holding. Light foxing to first 7 pages not affecting text. Pages untrimmed. Frontis. Bookplate to endpapers. Printed on handmade papers and wonderfully decorated with 40 etchings by Paul Avril. Binding fair but tight, text in very good reading condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9981
- Title
- My Uncle Barbassou
- Author
- Uchard, Mario
- Illustrator
- Paul Avril
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vizetelly & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- fiction, french illustrator , french erortic literarue, 18th century , corsair, harem life , pirates, polygamy , sailing, traveling, adventure
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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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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