At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque
by France, Anatole
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1931 214 pps. plus 6 b/w illustrated plates. Text clean, tight and unmarked. Printed on heavy, toned, deckled stock. Purple silkand black cloth boards are sunned across the top edge, and gold stamping is worn. Spine is faded. A few pages are unopened. Anatole France lampoons the occult with this satiric romance involving a shape-shifting salamander in "wicked" old Paris.. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by King, Alexander. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 600708
- Title
- At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque
- Author
- France, Anatole
- Illustrator
- King, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Illustrated Editions Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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