Jack
by Daudet, Alphonse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1909; 8vo, 716 pages; illustrated. Daudet’s dark novel of the fortunes of a neglected boy born out of wedlock, "a life wholly wrecked by an accident of birth." No printed publication date (circa 1909). The complete novel in one volume, beautifully bound in 3/4 blue leather with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt page top edges, and green silk marker ribbon, with over 60 b&w illustrations by Felician Myrbach. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, titles and all gilding bright, binding tight, sound, and square, corners sharp. Brief previous owner inscription in an attractive hand on f.f.e.p., ("To ____ from ____, Christmas, 1909.") Text in French. An attractive volume.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5055
- Title
- Jack
- Author
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ernest Flammarion
- Place of Publication
- Paris,
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- French Literature, French Books, Alphonse Daudet, Myrback, Leather Bindings, Illustrated Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Glossary
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marbled boards
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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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...