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Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert
by Gustave Faubert; Francis Steegmuller (ed)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, London; first edition, 1954. Jacket tanned and spotted at spine , with minor chipping to top and bottom of spine and to each of the four corners; price clipped; boards are cloth bound in blue with just some slight rubbing at the edges; some minor spotting to edges of text block. Internally, the book is in very good condition, clean and tightly bound.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rob Gibson Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2508/E/1
- Title
- Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert
- Author
- Gustave Faubert; Francis Steegmuller (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
Rob Gibson Books
30 day return guarantee - if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged I will give a full refund, including original shipping costs, if the item is returned within 30 days of delivery.
About the Seller
Rob Gibson Books
Biblio member since 2017
Winchester, Hampshire
About Rob Gibson Books
Book indexer and part-time secondhand bookseller specialising in published letters and diaries of major and minor historical and literary figures.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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