Eugenie Grandet, Ursule Mirouet, and Other Stories
by Honoré de Balzac
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Nottingham Society, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. Edition de luxe. 389 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound leather with green boards. Gilt to spine. Rough cut pages to text block edge. Limited to 1000 copies. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Some pages are dog-earred. Binding is weak. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and heavy rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627569967EWY
- Title
- Eugenie Grandet, Ursule Mirouet, and Other Stories
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Nottingham Society
- Date Published
- 1901
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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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Half Bound
- ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...