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Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys' Diary) (Modern Library #103.1)
by PEPYS, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. [c.1954]. Hardcover. The diary of Englishman Samuel Pepys was begun in 1660 and has been described as Britain's most celebrated diary. From the jacket cover: "Intelligently condensed into one volume and with an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne." --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but total number is missing. Likely published c.1954 (no publication date appears in book). ML #103.1. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with a hint of age-toning to leaves and gift inscription in pink pencil to verso of ffep. Price-clipped dust jacket with large open tear to front panel top edge, other smaller chips & tears to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiv, 332, (6, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87445
- Title
- Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys' Diary) (Modern Library #103.1)
- Author
- PEPYS, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1954]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- 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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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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