THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY
by FLAUBERT, Gustave
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's beveled black boards with partially faded silver spine lettering and decorations, small quarto, pp. 253 + [1] + colophon. Fore-edges deckle. Patterned endpapers. Typography and wood engravings by Ilse Bischoff. Some shelf and handling wear at spine ends and board tips. A few pages are unopened. Colophon cites 160 copies numbered and an additional 2,000 not numbered. This copy is one of the latter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3524
- Title
- THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY
- Author
- FLAUBERT, Gustave
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Ives Washburn Publisher, 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....