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BILLY BUDD AND BENITO CERENO
by MELVILLE, HERMAN
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. All edges gilt. Covers and spine with elaborate nautical motifs in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. A copy of Notes From The Archives laid-in. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. Paintings by Robert Shore. Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. "Billy Budd" was a novella left unfinished at his death, finally published in 1924. "Benito Cereno", also a novella, was first published in 1855.179pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Deep Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014975
- Title
- BILLY BUDD AND BENITO CERENO
- Author
- MELVILLE, HERMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- The Collector's Library of Famous Editio
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- Super Royal Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature, Sea Tales, Adventure, Melville, Fine Binding
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. 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....
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