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Two Tales By Herman Melville Billy Budd And Benito Cereno
by Melville Herman
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Easton Press. As New. 1980. Hardcover. Blue leather Hardcovers, gilt embossed covers and spine. Gilt edges, tan silk moire endpapers, with a silk marker ribbon. Four raised bands. A sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. Frontispiece of Melville. A lovely name plate with the previous owner's name on it, front end paper. A blind stamp on the title page. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar and paintings by Robert Shore. ; 10" - 11"; 176 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26511
- Title
- Two Tales By Herman Melville Billy Budd And Benito Cereno
- Author
- Melville Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Fiction > Classics, England, Classics Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Literature; England; Collectibles;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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- Gilt
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- Plate
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- Raised Band(s)
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- 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...
- 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
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- New
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