The Home Library Book Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Gilt decorated brown cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and heavy foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1643290736MHA
Title: La Grande Breteche and Other Stories
Author: Honore de Balzac
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Home Library Book Co

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...