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The Incredible Casanova: The Magnificent Follies of a Peerless Adventurer, Amorist and Charlatan
by Montgomery, James Stuart
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. . Covers rubbed, front cover stained, head and heel shelf-worn, edges beveled, writing on bottom edges, else fine. VERY GOOD. . (vii), 437 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15094
- Title
- The Incredible Casanova: The Magnificent Follies of a Peerless Adventurer, Amorist and Charlatan
- Author
- Montgomery, James Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Biography;, Casanova, Charlatan, Follies, Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Travel & Adventure;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
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