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RAVENNA: Et Le Sue Grandi Memorie
by Pier Desiderio Pasolini
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Rome: Ermanno Loescher & Cie, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. vi, 407 pgs. 6 x 8 3/4 in. Quarter red moroccan with marble paper boards, gilt lettering on spine. Tissue protected frontis and numerous B&W illustrations. SIGNED IN INK BY PASOLINI WITH AND INSCRIPTION ON FFEP. Faux wood endpapers, blue silk bookmark. Text in Italian. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD+ ; corners very lightly worn, red leather excellent, some slight scuffing to boards. FFep and first several pages have spots and wear on right side. Very light foxing to some of the text, edges of text block lightly foxed, spine slightly cocked. Text very clean and illustrations good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3906
- Title
- RAVENNA
- Author
- Pier Desiderio Pasolini
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ermanno Loescher & Cie
- Place of Publication
- Rome
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History;
Terms of Sale
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Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
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