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Livre de MADAME: Edité pour John Wanamaker
by BARBIER, George (Illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Silk paper covered boards, illustrated in color with gilt edges. Very good, in good slip case
- Seller
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Newport, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Maquet, 1918. Sewn binding. Silk paper covered boards, illustrated in color with gilt edges. Very good, in good slip case. 156 pages. 12 x 8 cm. Published by the America department store, Wanamakers, this silk covered day book is decorated in a Persian art-deco design with gilt edges and housed in a similar styled publisher-issued slipcase with matching silk plates. 4 lithographic plates (Barbier), colored in pochoir and by hand in grays and white, with an additional 3 black and white plates. Interior features monthly calendar, blank pages for notes, and a selection of poems including those by Voltaire, Brazier, & Gilbert. Text in French. Interior crisp and clean, covers lightly rubbed at edges. Slip case rubbed and soiled with 1/2 cm. loss to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- lizzyoung bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3934
- Title
- Livre de MADAME
- Author
- BARBIER, George (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Sewn binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Silk paper covered boards, illustrated in color with gilt edges. Very good, in good slip case
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Maquet
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1918
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
lizzyoung bookseller
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Newport, Rhode Island
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- 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...
- 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...
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