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Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
by James Branch Cabell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: Robert M. McBride and Company, New York, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Frank C. Pape (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. Book is in very fine pristine condition, unopened and unmarked. Book is bound in faux black leather with fine gilt lettering and decorations. Trimmed top has a fine red stain and the fore and bottom edges are untrimmed. The near fine The priced (3.00net) has slight wear to the extremities and is bright and clean. This edition has 10 finely printed full page drawings with tissue guards and thirty full page chapter headings, by Frank C. Pape. Book is Mylar protected. Collectible.
Synopsis
Domnei is an Old Provencal word meaning the attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight for his Lady. In modern times the word is esepcially known for the use made of it in the title and plot of Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship, a fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell, set in the imaginary French province of Poictesme during the second half of the 13th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13041
- Title
- Domnei
- Author
- James Branch Cabell
- Illustrator
- Frank C. Pape
- Format/Binding
- Bound in black cloth over boards with fine gilt lettering and gilt decorations
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert McBride and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Beautifully Illustrated by Frank C. Pape
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
Rare finds with an emphasis on fiction, art, and signed first-editions. Oshtemo Book Sellers has an eye for quality and quirk.
Glossary
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- New
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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