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Pekin: Ses Palais, Ses Temples et ses Enviorns
by Maurice Fabre
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Tien-Tsin (Tainjin), China: Libraire Francaise, 1937. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo hardcover in red cloth with spine lettered in black. Text in French. Photo illustrated endpapers, 347 pp. with index plus 14 pp. of adverts at rear. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings (many in two-color tint). Generally fine; only the front panel and two flaps of the dust jacket laid in. Guide book to the history and attractions of Peking designed for travelers. Quite scarce.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E25257
- Title
- Pekin: Ses Palais, Ses Temples et ses Enviorns
- Author
- Maurice Fabre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Libraire Francaise
- Place of Publication
- Tien-Tsin (Tainjin), China
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- travel, china, peking, beijing, pekin, french, tourism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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