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Cosmopolis
by Bourget, Paul
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Not Issued
- Seller
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VALATIE, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1893. 1893 "Edition du Figaro." Per colophon, this copy is from the 30 November 1892 printing. NEAR FINE. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Rebound (~ mid-twentieth century) in three-quarter black morocco (spine and corners) and marbled paper over boards. Cover spine has 5 raised bands with gilt decorated panels and titles gilt-stamped on two maroon leather labels. Top page edge gilt. Top corner of half-title page torn and 1 leaf in book slightly protruding with minor edge wear, otherwise pages are fine - clean, no soiling, tears, chips or creases. Binding and hinges tight, intact and straight. Cover is clean and fresh, edges lightly rubbed, otherwise fine. Profusely illustrated by artists Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, Ernest Ange Duez and Felician Myrbach with black and white halftones throughout text, including several full page plates. There are also 4 color pages (chromolithographs) including the striking frontispiece depicting a brazen woman smoking a cigarette. In French. 6 x 9-1/4"; iv + 475 pages (including colophon). First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Near Fine/Not Issued. Illus. by Jeanniot, P.G.; Duez, E.A.; Myrback, F..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Knickerbocker Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005883
- Title
- Cosmopolis
- Author
- Bourget, Paul
- Illustrator
- Jeanniot, P.G.; Duez, E.A.; Myrback, F.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alphonse Lemerre
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Foreign Language; Fiction, Literature, Literary Crit;
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About the Seller
Knickerbocker Books
Biblio member since 2006
VALATIE, New York
About Knickerbocker Books
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- Marbled Paper
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Morocco
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