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Chicot the Jester
by Alexandre Dumas
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
R. E. King & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 339 pages. No dust jacket. Dark brown cloth. Major tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Distinctive tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine.
Synopsis
Le dimanche gras de l'annee 1578, apres la fete du populaire , et tandis que s'eteignaient dans les rues les rumeurs de la joyeuse journee, commencait une fete splendide dans le magnifique hotel que venait de se faire batir, de l'autre cote de l'eau et presque en face du Louvre, cette illustre famille de Montmorency qui, alliee a la royaute de France, marchait l'egale des familles princieres.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1637306381MHA
- Title
- Chicot the Jester
- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- R. E. King & Co
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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