Francis the Waif (Francois le Champi)
by Sand, George
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Sons. Good. 1889. Hardcover. Banded, brown half-leather binding with burgundy margled boards & endpapers; rubbed at extremities; boards scuffed; leaf edges soiled; a few abrasions to leather on rear board; hinges cracked, though tight; a few leaves bent at top corner tips; small retail label on rear paste-down, else a nice book with bright illustrations.; Many great black & white illustrations by Eugene Burnand; translated from French by Gustave Masson; top edges gilt; this is #307 of 1000 copies.; 8vo; 304 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37376
- Title
- Francis the Waif (Francois le Champi)
- Author
- Sand, George
- Illustrator
- Eugene Burnand
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- 19th Century French Fiction, French Novelists, Swiss Born French Painters, Eugene Burnand, Illustrator, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
- Bookseller catalogs
- GC: Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- 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,...
- Paste-down
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- 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...
- Leaves
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