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Port-Tarascon: Dernieres Aventures De L'Illustre Tartarin (Collection Guillaume)
by Daudet, Alphonse
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Ernest Flammarion, 1900. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy with slight rubbing and browning to covers (leather over boards; chiefly to edges and corners); previous bookseller's printed paper label on rear attached endpaper; slight internal uniform browning (chiefly to edges). [12], 348, [2] pages (including wrappers). Text in French. Later issue ('81me mille' on title page recto; 'Quatre-vingt-cinquieme mille' at foot of upper wrapper) of the 3-part 'last adventures' of the serio-comic southeastern French hero; notable for the illustrations (by Bieler, Montegut, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi; chiefly in margins and as head- and tailpieces). Date is conjectural (not dated in book); originally published in 1890 (see BMC, volume 6, page 1026, column 1100). Original wrappers bound in at front and rear. Bound in half brown morocco over light brown marbled boards, gilt-stamped and decorated spine, covers double gilt-ruled, dark red/blue cockerell endpapers, t.e.g., remaining edges untrimmed. Nice, tight fine-bound copy.Over 100 b/w & brown/white Illustrations (including Title page).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L073174
- Title
- Port-Tarascon: Dernieres Aventures De L'Illustre Tartarin (Collection Guillaume)
- Author
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Format/Binding
- Leather Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ernest Flammarion
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Daudet, Alphonse French Literature 19th Century French Fiction Humor Satire Adventure Binding Leather QX91, , , , , , ,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
Biblio member since 2005
Seattle, Washington
About Arundel Books of Seattle
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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