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Tragic Russia
by Gasiorowski, Waclaw; Translated by the Viscount de Buscancy
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Paris, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Cassell and Co., 1908. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Octavo. 288 pages. Hardcover in black cloth with front cover designs in red and pink. The binding is rubbed, has damping, bubbling up of cloth. Tears at headcap. Endpapers are foxed. Rear hinge has cracked for three inches starting at the bottom of the gutter. Text is toned, has occasional foxing and small tears. Several of the plates are detached, but the illustrations collate complete. Quite scarce. Yet this is a reading or reference copy only.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045277
- Title
- Tragic Russia
- Author
- Gasiorowski, Waclaw; Translated by the Viscount de Buscancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1908
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1908; Waclaw Gasiorowski; Russia; Empire. Czar Nicholas; Alexander; Ivan; Cathering; History; Revolution; Communists; Bolshevik; Viscount de Buscancy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russia and the Soviet Union;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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