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A Journey Round My Room - Original, NOT a Modern Reprint
by De Maistre, Xavier; A. H. "" - Transl. from French
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Media, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York / Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press, 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover/ no DJ, Good condition; 152 pages, b/w etchings, rough-cut bottom edge of text block, top edge bright gilt. First Edition, c. 1871, same date on title page & no note of further printings Owner name inside front cover. Dark green cloth binding is square w/ light rubbing & edge wear; 1/8 fray/ chip to top & bottom of spine. Gold decoration & lettering on cover & spine bright & intact. Endpapers clean. Text is tight, clean, unmarked w/ some toning- mostly in margins. NO hinge splits, dogeared pages, etc.; NOT ex library. Handsome, well preserved copy.
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- Bookseller
- EDM Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12
- Title
- A Journey Round My Room - Original, NOT a Modern Reprint
- Author
- De Maistre, Xavier; A. H. "" - Transl. from French
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- New York / Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1871
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Media, Pennsylvania
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