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The Wild Ass's Skin
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair TEG/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent, 1903. Gilt signature of Balzac on front cover with gilt decoration and title to spine on green cloth boards which have wear to spine head and tail and to corner tips, fading to spine with some marks to front. Internally there is a contemporary signarure and date to front endpaper, age darkening to endpapers and some staing to the margins of some pages. lix + 288 pages. Fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Two tissue protected engravings by W. Boucher and a photogravure portrait of Balzac by H. Crickmore. Fourth edition printed August 1903. Translated by Ellen Marriage with a preface by George Saintsbury. Uniform with Dent's series of the Comedie Humaine. Despite its faults it is a good reading copy well translated. C3A. Hard Cover. Fair TEG/No Jacket. Illus. by Boucher. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000373
- Title
- The Wild Ass's Skin
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Illustrator
- Boucher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair TEG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- French Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Balzac, Honoré De;
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About the Seller
Goldring Books
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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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