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FAUST, A TRAGEDY
by GOETHE, JOHAN WOLFGANG VON
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Nearly 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, 1980. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk sewn-in bookmark. Modern translation by Alice Raphael. Illustrated by Eugene Delacroix. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. From the Easton series, "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Occasional underling and marginal notes in a fine hand. Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, theatre director, critic. 183pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Burgundy Leather. Nearly Fine/No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015012
- Title
- FAUST, A TRAGEDY
- Author
- GOETHE, JOHAN WOLFGANG VON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- Super Royal Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- German Literature, Plays, Theater, Fine Binding, Goethe
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.
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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