Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
by De Balzac, Honore, Translated By Ellen Marriagew
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: International Collectors Library, 1968, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. hardcover, dramatic bright maroon and gilt decorative cloth boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. There is a laid in info sheet from the Collectors Library explaining the book and the binding, which is a copy of one by Nicolas-Denis Derome of Paris, who was from a family of bookbinders who executed binding designs for Louis XV. 516 deckled pages. Silk book mark. Maroon endpapers. Top pages edged in gilt.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10065
- Title
- Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
- Author
- De Balzac, Honore, Translated By Ellen Marriagew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City: International Collectors Library, 1968
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
bookwitch
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Concord, California
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...