Frederick A Stokes. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1890. Vignette edition. Hardcover. 12mo hardcover with elaborate gilt design on front with clover leaf in center, as is on spine, tight binding, clean unmarked and unfoxed smooth-coated pages, covers have very light shelfwear to dark buckram-green cloth, unobtrusive name and stamp on front inside paste-down, else VG++ to NFINE. Fully illustrated "with new drawings", a beautiful copy that hefts well in the hand. An old German legend of mythic status in which a man makes a pack with the Devil and pays with his soul. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 360pp pages .

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Bookseller: Mossback Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28298
Title: FAUST From the German by John Anster
Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition: Vignette edition
Publisher: Frederick A Stokes
Date Published: 1890
Keywords: Faust & The Devil; Mephistopheles
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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....
Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...