At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque
by France, Anatole & Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson (Trans. ) & William Locke (Intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1919. reprint. Hardcover in slipcase. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 272 pages; 1919 John Lane the Bodley Head. HC/DJ. Early printing in original dust jacket. Soundly bound in original red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine; rules and titles in blind to cover. Aubrey Beardsley illustrated endpages. Original dust jacket of light tan paper with titles and rules in cream. Cream on tan dulled but legible to jacket spine. Light shelf rubbing and nicks to jacket edges. Uncommon early dust jacketed copy. VG+/VG- .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43530
- Title
- At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque
- Author
- France, Anatole & Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson (Trans. ) & William Locke (Intro)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Dust Jackets;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- New
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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