Droll Stories
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Austin, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
John Camden Hotten Book. Very Good+. Half-Leather. No date. 650pp. This copy in Birdsall fine binding. Brown half-leather. Raised bands on spine. Gilt tooling on spine. Marbled end papers. Light rubbing to leather. Bubbling to cloth area on front board..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 086983
- Title
- Droll Stories
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
Terms of Sale
Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2013
Austin, Minnesota
About Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
We have been selling books for over 15 years. We specialize in Americana, First Edition Literature, Golf, History, Railroad, Chess Medical, Western Americana, Mysteries, Economic History, Poetry, Aviation, Ornithology, Minnesota, Horses, Genealogy and Military Books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...