Benediction
by SILVE, Claude; Robert Norton, trans.; Edith Wharton, foreword
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],281pp. Jacket toned and a bit shelf-worn with some chipping and short closed tears, very shallow losses to spine ends, discrete tape repair to verso extremities; contemporary, rather lengthy, gift inscription to front free endpaper, else interior Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. Scarce thus. French novel originally published in 1935 and awarded the Prix Femina that same year.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28100
- Title
- Benediction
- Author
- SILVE, Claude; Robert Norton, trans.; Edith Wharton, foreword
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton-Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; France;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...