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Viva Il Sogno! (Live the Dream) by Debra Valencia, Editor
- Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000373
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine Plus
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Limited
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Mansion at MGM Grand, Inc.
- Place: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Date published: 2000
Description
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: The Mansion at MGM Grand, Inc., 2000 LIMITED EDITION. One of only 1000 copies of this pictorial coffee table book printed in Italy for the Grand Opening of The Mansion at MGM Grand, a Tuscan (Italy) themed resort casino hotel. Spectacular photos of the MGM Grand and also of Tuscan countryside and artwork. Yellow buckram (cloth) hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Pastedown of fountain on front. cover. Slight, slight, barely noticeable discolorations on front cover and lower spine and minor concave bowing of book. Bibliography.. Limited. Buckram. Near Fine Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
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.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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