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Dagger and Jewels: The Gorgeous Adventures of Benvenuto Cellini
by William Dana Orcutt [signed]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/without dust jacket
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/without dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page and with date 26 April, 1933. Octavo, 8" tall, 372 pages, red cloth, top edge red, gilt titles and decoration, illustrated end papers. A very good, clean first edition with minor shelf wear, cloth color faded along back strip with minor fraying at the top edge, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Gilt on front panel bright. A nice looking copy. Without dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2837
- Title
- Dagger and Jewels: The Gorgeous Adventures of Benvenuto Cellini
- Author
- William Dana Orcutt [signed]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- without dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Fiction; Historical; Romance; Signed by Author
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About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Newmarket, New Hampshire
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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