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Carlyle Intime: Jane Welsh Carlyle Reminiscences.
by Carlyle, Thomas; Norton, Charles Eliot and Masson, Elsie & Emile
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- Hardcover
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris; Mercure de France, 1913., 1913. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED COPY. French text. Small octavo, pp 351. 2 portrait plates with tissue guards, including frontispiece of Thomas Carlyle. Half blue polished calf with marbled boards by A Renaud with gilt ruling to edges and gilt titles & decoration to spine; marbled endpapers. Original yellow paper cover bound-in; yellow silk placemarker. Corners bumped with wear and edges lightly rubbed. Binder's ticket to front pastedown. Ownership inscription to verso ffep and to title page, with a little annotation to verso p 351. Lengthy inscription by the Massons in purple ink to half title dated in the year of publication, 1913. Page edges toned; scattered foxing, mainly to prelims. French translation of Norton's text of Thomas Carlyle's posthumous publication of his wife's work, taken from her diaries. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5305
- Title
- Carlyle Intime: Jane Welsh Carlyle Reminiscences.
- Author
- Carlyle, Thomas; Norton, Charles Eliot and Masson, Elsie & Emile
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris; Mercure de France, 1913.
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Half Title
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
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