Lavengro
by Borrow, George
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1900. First printing thus. Cloth. Good. 8vo, 569 pp., frontispiece, plates. A New Edition Containing the Unaltered Text of the Original Issue; Some Suppressed Episodes Now Printed for the First Time; MS. Variorum, Vocabulatry and Notes. Spine cocked, covers sunned and rubbed at edges with some fraying, superficial insect damage; foxing to page edges, endpapers, and a few outer leaves.
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6070
- Title
- Lavengro
- Author
- Borrow, George
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- gypsies, fiction , , , ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gypsy;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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"...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
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