Limited no. 169/400 Van Gelder vellum tint. Text in French/Texte en français. Good HC in Fair DJ. Stiff card portfolio with laid-in sheets; covered in glassine and this covered in (pseudo?) marbled paper in combed placard style. Board covers are clean and complete but for small chips at spine ends; outer marbled paper cover has some chipping along edges and is split at spine/rear cover joint; marbled paper upper half of spine missing; owner's small book plate on front cover on marbled paper has title written on; glassine cover under outer cover appears complete, intact but for small chips at spine ends and light edge wear; interior sheets are light, clean and complete. Small 4to, 52 pp. 10 full page plates including frontispiece are watercolors of Guy Arnoux.

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Bookseller: Madden Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17977
Title: La Peur de Mr. de Fierce
Author: Claude Farrere
Illustrator: Guy Arnoux
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paris: La Livre
Date Published: 1922
Keywords: ARTISTS, WATERCOLORS, FRENCH, PARISIAN, FRANCE

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Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Laid-in: "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
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...
Vellum: Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...