Mercure de France, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1917 Mercure de France. NOT ex-library. Text in French. Third edition. Hardcover, half-bound (spine, part of the boards, and corners) in leather with gilt ruled borders over marbled paper. Brown, blue, and green marbling is in Spanish Moire over Turkish pattern. Endpapers have light blue marbling. Spine has five raised bands, with gilt ribbon and dot pattern. Panels have gilt ruled borders; gilt lettering in two panels. Remaining panels have floral devices at center and corners. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Binding tight. Front hinge has light partial crack. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. It appears as though the leather was once green, but the spine and most edges have faded to brown. Some cracking of leather along exterior hinge lines. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Edges of endpapers have tanned where in contact with leather. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Small pencil notation at top inner corner of first flyleaf. Small bookstore label afixed to verso of rear free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 386 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Bookseller: SmarterRat Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8047
Title: Anthologie des Ballades Francaises, 1897-1917
Author: Fort, Paul
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Mercure de France
Date Published: 1917
Keywords: France,Poetry
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry; France;

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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.
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....