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Afloat (Sur L'Eau),
by Guy De Maupassant
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge and Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. None. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Gilt and red speckled textblock edges. Black and white illustrations throughout by Riou. Translation by Laura Ensor. Pages remain bright and clear with some light foxing in places. Repaired hinges front and back and some cracked gutters. Repair coming away at front. Some pencil annotations to front endpapers. Gilt and red speckled edges to textblock very faded. Rubbing and fraying around hinges and spine crushed and worn top and bottom and sunned. Some sunning to top of rear board and also faint inscription in black ink on back. Some fraying on corners.
Synopsis
Guy de Maupassant (1850—1893), after serving in the Franco-Prussian War, became close friends with Flaubert and his circle. He wrote hundreds of short stories as well as novels and verse. In his later years, he suffered from mental illness, and he died in an asylum. Douglas Parmée (1914-2008), a lifetime fellow of Queens College, Cambridge, has translated works by Flaubert, Zola, Baudelaire, and Chamfort, among others, including the NYRB Classics titles, The Child by Jules Vallès and Afloat by Guy de Maupassant. He is a past winner of the Society of Authors Scott-Moncrieff Prize for French translation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692009893ABS
- Title
- Afloat (Sur L'Eau),
- Author
- Guy De Maupassant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Date Published
- 1889
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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