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The Cellini Plaque
by Harold MacGrath
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fine
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1925. 1st/1st. G/F. First Edition with Facsimile Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. The book is Good. It is tight and square with solid hinges. Spine lettering is faded and some soiling to brown boards. Corners gently bumped and wear to spine ends. Textblock has the previous owner's small cursive name stamped on the front and back endpapers, otherwise clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Gutter separation at half-title page, but pages are still bound. The pages are age-toned. There is a small closed tear to the edge of page 250. The dust jacket is Fine. Stated Facsimile Dust Jackets, LLC on the bottom of the front flap. Otherwise, it is an exact reproduction of the original dust jacket with a $2.00 price. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
"Robert Ellison was rich and young, with a hobby for collecting pieces of art. So when his Italian agent cabled him that he had discovered a genuine Cellini Plaque, he lost no time in crossing the Atlantic…" – From the dust jacket
A wonderful mystery of art, swindles, a great con man, and romance.A wealthy young art collector travels to Italy in the hopes of purchasing a Cellini. He falls for a girl, finds out her father is the man trying to sell the Cellini and he proves to be "…devilishly clever. He was a magnificent rascal, and in his own way, an idealist".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2824
- Title
- The Cellini Plaque
- Author
- Harold MacGrath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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