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Souvenirs of France
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
- Seller
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Chisseaux, France
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About This Item
Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1933. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No Dust Jacket. Deep blue cloth with gilt decorated spine and gansha device on front board. First edition July 1933, reprinted July and September 1933. Top edge gilt. Some soiling and fading of boards, gilt features are bright and well preserved. Cocked spine; POS on FFEP Roger Perrineau February 1936 ex-libris with just two other pages containing pen marks by the same hand, one of which on p.28 poses the still relevant question "Tours?"; a few creased page tips; text cream colored possibly from aging possibly from original paper stock type; binding loose with at least one split.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Les livres des Limbes
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006059
- Title
- Souvenirs of France
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- ABI PM BB1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Recit de Voyage, Biblio, ABI;
Terms of Sale
Les livres des Limbes
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed. Seller is not responsible for claims of "lost in shipment" if proof of shipment can be provided (i.e., tracking number, customs declarations form, or photo of package with postage on site in post office).
About the Seller
Les livres des Limbes
Biblio member since 2013
Chisseaux
About Les livres des Limbes
Antiquarian and modern OP general interest, ephemera, and curated collections in cooking, poetry, art, and "regionalisme" (especially for France, Brazil, and Western USA). Please consult our nonconformist catalogs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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