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The Village Cure
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Caxton, 1899. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with some minor marks to rear. Internally there are some small removals to the edges of two pages (probably from bad opening of previously unopened pages)but not affecting the text, age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 371 pages. Country Life. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010503
- Title
- The Village Cure
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Caxton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- COMEDIE HUMAINE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Balzac, Honoré De;
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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...
- Jacket
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
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