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SALAMMBO
by Flaubert, Gustave; Ben Ray Redman (introduction)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus/Fair
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The John Day Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very good plus/Fair. Mahlon Blaine. Mahlon Blaine. Hardcover. First Edition. Lg. octavo. 338pp. Original brick red cloth, spine and cover stamped and decorated in black and gilt. Pictorial endpapers, 15 b&w plates (incl. frontispiece), chapter head and tailpieces by Mahon Blaine, in 1920's decadent style. In decorated dust jacket that has edge wear and is split at spine fold so in two pieces (now preserved in brodart dust jacket cover). No slipcase.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Horizon Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53686
- Title
- SALAMMBO
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave; Ben Ray Redman (introduction)
- Illustrator
- Mahlon Blaine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
Lost Horizon Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. We do not accept overseas orders for some countries and for some large and expensive items.
About the Seller
Lost Horizon Bookstore
Biblio member since 2010
Santa Barbara, California
About Lost Horizon Bookstore
We are a small, open shop in Santa Barbara and have been in the same location for over 30 years. We have a select inventory of used and rare books. We also carry original posters and prints, vintage photographs and ephemera. Open Tues.- Sat. 11-6, closed Sunday & Monday.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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