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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
by M. de Bourrienne
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1836. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1836. New Edition. 588 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and title page, with tissue-guard still present. Gilt text block edges. Severe cracking to front hinge causing board to come away from the text block. Water staining to frontispiece and title page with some markings to endpapers and pastedowns. Text is unaffected. Pages are lightly tanned with faint dust marks on occasion. Pen and pencil inscription to front endpaper and pastedown. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Large splits to joints causing spine strip to come away to ends with small areas of loss. Burn marks to spine ends. Water staining to boards and spine, causing cloth to be discoloured in places. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715681196BWS
- Title
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Author
- M. de Bourrienne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Scott, Webster, and Geary
- Date Published
- 1836
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Spine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Acceptable
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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...
- 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...
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