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Les Duels célèbres
by Vaux, Baron de
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Ed. Rouvevre & G. Blond, 1884. Half-Leather. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Language: French. Pages are crisp and clean except for occasional foxing, two shallow brown spots on the foreedge, and gentle toning in the margins; binding is square and tight; half-leather cover bears some surface scratching to the marbled paper front and rear and a little scuffing along the exterior edges, otherwise bright and clean, and the leather portion, though occasionally chipped along the foreedges, worn through at three of the free corners, and bearing small scuffs along the spine and surface abrasion around the head and at the heel, is supple and attractive, with gilt titles at the spine. 180pp. Copy number 584 of 650; gilded head edge, marbled endpapers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067981
- Title
- Les Duels célèbres
- Author
- Vaux, Baron de
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ed. Rouvevre & G. Blond
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1884
Terms of Sale
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
RETURNS: I will gladly accept returns when returned in "as sold" condition postmarked within 14 days of receipt of shipment. Postage will be refunded only if the return is the result of my error. DEALER DISCOUNT: To bona fide book dealers, I do offer a 10% discount with retail sales tax number. If you qualify, please mention this in your order.
About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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