ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing. Very good. Original dark green cloth with pictorial design in white, light blue, and gilt; octavo (6.5 x 9 inches); 214 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and 12 plates by E.C. Peixotto. A couple faint stains to covers, bookplate and ink stamp of Cora Smedberg Felton to front endpapers, else about fine
Cover design by Margaret Armstrong with her monogram in lower right corner
Cover design by Margaret Armstrong with her monogram in lower right corner
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20473
- Title
- ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1905
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About the Seller
Chanticleer Books
Biblio member since 2007
Fort Bragg, California
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