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Thaïs: Nouvelle Édition Revue et Corrigée par l'Auteur
by France, Anatole
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good -. [4], 291, [3] p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf spine with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Yellow and green marbled endpapers. Ribbon book mark. Verso of half title contains publisher's advertisement for other works by Anatole France. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; head of spine scraped, with some loss of top gilt rule; small scrape on back board; browning along top page edges and fore-edges; pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002040
- Title
- Thaïs: Nouvelle Édition Revue et Corrigée par l'Auteur
- Author
- France, Anatole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Calmann-Lévy
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1920
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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