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Petits Poèmes en prose - Les Paradis artificiels (from Oeuvres completes)
by Baudelaire, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No dustjacket as issued
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, circa 1890. One volume from the Oeuvres complètes de Ch. Baudelaire. Hardcover. Hexadecimo. 6.5 x 4 inches. 442 pp. Very Good. No dustjacket as issued. Bradel binding. Half -bound ebony glazed sheepskin with corners, inner edges double gilt ruled. Six spine panels, all gilt double-ruled, two with titles, four gilt-cornered with center element. Five raised bands with gilt-dotted accents. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. Deckled foredge. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Lightly edge-worn with tips rubbed through. Binding tight. Text block clean, slightly age toned, with occasional foxing. Language: French.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000113
- Title
- Petits Poèmes en prose - Les Paradis artificiels (from Oeuvres completes)
- Author
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Bradel binding. Half -bound ebony glazed sheepskin.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Librairie Alphonse Lemerre
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- ca. 1890
- Pages
- 442
- Size
- 16mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Foreign Language;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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