Monsieur Beaucaire
by Tarkington, Booth
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1981. Bound in genuine full leather, elaborately tooled and gilt-stamped blue covers and spine with two raised hubs on the backbone. All edges gilt. Moiré endpapers and ribbon page-marker. Illustrated by T. M. Cleland. 121pp. Masterpieces of American Literature bookplate bottom of half title page else a fine, unread copy. This is the Collector's Edition of Masterpieces of American Literature. 480 grams. We have many other titles in stock that are bound in full leather from the Easton Press (some with and some without bookplates), and we gladly combine shipping at cost. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Synopsis
The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman's sleeve.
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- Title
- Monsieur Beaucaire
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Norwalk: Easton Press, 1981
- Keywords
- Booth Tarkington Monsieur Beaucaire Leather Bound Binding Easton Press
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