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Balzac And Souverain: An Unpublished Correspondence
by Walter Scott Hastings
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1927. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine. One of 535 copies of which 500 were for sale. This copy out of sequence with a dash rather than a number. Large octavo in light grey paper covered boards over japon vellum spine with paper title label. Top edge gilt. 90 pp. Frontispiece charcoal sketch portrait by Gustave Courbet, captioned tissue guard. Seven additional plates. Generally fine, touch of light soiling to the spine strip. In the original glassine dust wrapper with chip to the top rear panel. The slipcase lacks both top and bottom panels and has staining but retains the paper spine label.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WE25202
- Title
- Balzac And Souverain: An Unpublished Correspondence
- Author
- Walter Scott Hastings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- literature, balzac, souverain, letters, correspondence
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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