The Novels of Honore De Balzac: Old Goriot
by Honore De Balzac
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leonard Smithers & Co.,, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and rough cut edges to text block. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting as well. Boards have visible rubbing and bleach spotting. Minor bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Major sunning to spine as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1626873735MEP
- Title
- The Novels of Honore De Balzac: Old Goriot
- Author
- Honore De Balzac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Leonard Smithers & Co.,
- Date Published
- 1899
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...