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Chicot, The Jester (La Dame de Monsoreau)
by Alexandre Dumas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blackwood, Scott & Co, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xii + 810pp. Hinges cracked. Main text block remains firmly bound. Spine cocked, with chips to top and base. Foxing to front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slghtly marked and worn. Corners bumped. Illustrated. Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; France; 19th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28290. .
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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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28290
- Title
- Chicot, The Jester (La Dame de Monsoreau)
- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- Illustrator
- Frank T. Merrill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Publisher
- Blackwood, Scott & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB243 fiction, C19th, France Fiction; France; 19th century; Frank T. Merrill Alexandre Dumas Chicot, The Jester (La Dame de Monsoreau)
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- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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,...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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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