Salambo. A Realistic Romance of Ancient Carthage
by Flaubert, Gustave
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1899. Flaubert's "salacious" novel was originally published in 1862. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Third Edition in English. Tan decorative cloth binding with the decorations in dark brown/maroon and the titling in gilt. Clean text; xvi, 360 pages, with two pages in the front with ads for "Representative French Fiction." Introduction by the translator, J.S. Chartres; includes Flaubert's Appendix. This is an ASSOCIATION COPY. Embossed on the Title Page with chops from the private library of Joseph A. Sadony (1877-1960), a Spiritualist whose most famous work id "Gates of the Mind." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Third Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003082
- Title
- Salambo. A Realistic Romance of Ancient Carthage
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition.
- Publisher
- Gibbings & Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Association Copy
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- 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...
- 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...