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La Belle-Nivernaise and Other Stories
by DAUDET, Alphonse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. c.1890s. Hardcover. An English language edition of Alphonse Daudet's 1886 juvenile story collection, with charming illustrations on nearly every page. In this copy, the title/copyright page is missing, which makes it impossible to certify the name of a translator, artist(s), publication date, exact edition or printing. Possibly published c.1890s. --- In full crimson cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in gilt to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Volume has no dust jacket. --- Besides lacking the title page, volume with dampstains to lower corner of some leaves, slightly sunned spine; otherwise a clean, firmly bound copy.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); 221 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82382
- Title
- La Belle-Nivernaise and Other Stories
- Author
- DAUDET, Alphonse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- c.1890s
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
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