Aphrodite: Moeurs Antiques
by Louys, Pierre
- Used
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
Item Price
£19.38£15.51
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: Artheme Fayard & Cie, 1930. Softcover. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Morin-Jean. Book is in the French language. Heavily worn, stitched binding sound, wrappers edge worn and chipped with most of spine missing. Pages tanned with edge wear. Handling wear to exterior. Wood block prints reproduced by galvanotype by Morin-Jean throughout. ; Volume in series designed to bring the work of contemporary artists to the reading public. The text, by Louys was originally published in 1896 as a description of a courtesan in Alexandria. ; Le Livre de Demain; Wood block prints; 9.25" tall; 126 pages.
Synopsis
Couchee sur la poitrine, les coudes en avant, les jambes ecartees et la joue dans la main, elle piquait de petits trous symetriques dans un oreiller de lin vert, avec une longue epingle d'or.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4190056
- Title
- Aphrodite: Moeurs Antiques
- Author
- Louys, Pierre
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Morin-Jean
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Artheme Fayard & Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- FRENCH, LANGUAGE, FRANCAIS, LITERATURE, FICTION, ART
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Artists;
Terms of Sale
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Shipment immediately upon payment. Returns cheerfully accepted. If return results from our error, we refund price of book plus all shipping costs. if return is for any other reason, buyer pays cost of return shipping.
About the Seller
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Wrappers
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