Mara Era Fata Cosi by Arnaldi Ulrico:
- Bookseller: Brogden Books
 (GB)
- Seller Inventory #: 3526
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Milano Fratelli Treves 1922
Description
Milano Fratelli Treves 1922 1st ed. brown leather/gold 8vo pp406 signed VG-(leather binding to spine missing) A First of this Italian novel. The text-block is VG+, with pleasing leather/gold binding by A. Casciana Roma. On the front of the binding is ''A Benito Mussolini'' with a strikingly designed gold fasces. The leather binding has some corner knocking and is missing from the spine, which is still tightly bound with what appears to be a page from anaccounts ledger. Inside the front blank endpapers is the ink signature U. Arnaldi. Rare.
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. Also known as the back. 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes. endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
|
0 items in cart
