New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946. Original cloth covered boards. Collected for the first time, this tome includes the complete: Armance, Abbess of Castro, Vittoria Accoramboni, Cenci, Duchess of Palliano, Vanina Vanini. Translated from the French by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff. Pages are clean (unmarked) but yellowed with age. Text block is slightly pulling away from boards but pages are still secure. Boards are finger/dust soiled with denting to head/heel of spine and corners, rubbing to extremities. Unclipped dust jacket is sunned/yellowed/finger soiled/scuffed/ink-rubbed and has considerable wear (head of spine missing, chipping all corners, nicking/creasing to edges, heavy rubbing to extremities and panels). We have added a removable mylar covering to the dust jacket for protection. Increasingly scarce. . First Thus. Hardcover. Fair +/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mylared.

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Bookseller: after-words bookstore (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 146347
Title: The Shorter Novels of Stendhal Complete in One Volume
Author: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendahl
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Book Condition: Used - Fair +
Jacket Condition: Poor
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1946
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Fiction Literature Marie-Henri Beyle Stendahl
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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....