The Story of Gosta Berling
by Selma Lagerlof (Flach, trans)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Good HC, no DJ. Full red leather over boards, gilt letters and device; red and white decorated end papers. Clean, lightly scuffed covers; some rubbing at cover edges; spine heavily chipped at head; 1 inch chip missing at spine tail; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front pastedown; damp stain on front end papers at head and hinge; red bleed affects few preliminary leaves at head edge, otherwise bright, clean interior; one interior leaf badly cut in production and dog-eared at lower fore corner. Small 12mo, 473 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14161
- Title
- The Story of Gosta Berling
- Author
- Selma Lagerlof (Flach, trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- SWEDEN, RURAL, COUNTRY, MINING, FOLKLORE, TALES, VILLAGES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Folk, Fiction, Literature;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....