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Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Valley
by Francis Miltoun
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- near Fine/none
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: L.C. Page & Co, 1923. Publisher's Pictorial Cloth. near Fine/none. Blanche McManus. 1923, New Edition, book provides a history of the old Touraine and Loire Valley area of France. 347 pages, heavily illustrated with black and white and some color illustrations, color frontispiece with tissue guard, 2 folding maps, illustrated end papers. Book is near Fine, tight and square, sharp points, with no previous owner name or bookplate. Publisher's bright clean grey cloth, bright gilt palace scene with blue and red floral border to front board, gilt title to spine as well. Verry nice and clean copy. Top edge gilt. Protected in a custom mylar sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4010
- Title
- Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Valley
- Author
- Francis Miltoun
- Illustrator
- Blanche McManus
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's Pictorial Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L.C. Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1923
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- France, French Castles
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Fine
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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