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THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA
by BEYLE, MARIE-HENRI (STENDHAL)
- 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, 1992. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk sewn-in bookmark. A copy of Notes From The Archives laid-in. Illustrations are by Rafaello Busoni, preface by Honore de Balzac. First published in 1839. Stendhal (1783-1842) was a French writer, the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle. He had a syndrome named after him: a feeling of tachycardia, nausea, dizziness upon seeing something of great beauty and antiquity. 392pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Butterscotch Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015090
- Title
- THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA
- Author
- BEYLE, MARIE-HENRI (STENDHAL)
- 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
- 1992
- Size
- Demy Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Stendhal, French Literature
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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