The Love Letters of the King or, The Life Romantic.
by Le GALLIENNE, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901. 8vo., dark green cloth, upper board with an elaborate "American-style" art nouveau design in gilt. top edge gilt, other uncut, pp. viii, 281, [2] publisher's ads. Some crimping to the first 22 pages, with small edge tear on one page, bookseller's label on rear paste-down, spine slightly leaned, frayed at edges and slightly dulledt, tiny bump to one corner, else a very good, clean copy with the design on the upper board quite bright. An attractive copy. Colbeck's copy, pg. 483, #49, has design in a cream enamel, rather than gilt as here..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08403
- Title
- The Love Letters of the King or, The Life Romantic.
- Author
- Le GALLIENNE, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901.
- Keywords
- EIGHTEEN-NINETIES; NCLA-Z
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1890's;
Terms of Sale
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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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...
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...