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Vautrin; Drame En Cinq Actes, En Prose
by M. De Balzac (Honore De)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: Delloye, Tresse, 1840. First Edition, early printing. Hardcover. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 8" tall, 247 pages, quarter-leather with paper over boards. Possible first printing, with both Balzac's dedication and the credit "Represente sur le Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, le 14 Mars, 1840," dated the same month and year. A list of characters and the actors who portrayed them is printed on the back of the half-title page. A good copy overall BUT the cover is quite worn with the black leather back strip torn off (five inches of the backstrip laid in) and boards worn through at all extremities, front hinge cracked, first signature loosened, binding solid, text paper lightly yellowed but with foxing scattered throughout. This would be a good copy for binding restoration despite the foxing and is priced accordingly. (note: overseas postage may be prohibitively expensive)
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2286
- Title
- Vautrin; Drame En Cinq Actes, En Prose
- Author
- M. De Balzac (Honore De)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, early printing
- Publisher
- Delloye, Tresse
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1840
- Keywords
- French; Drama; Plays; Theatre; Theater
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama, Theatre;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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