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The Wise Fool: based on a tale from The Third Book of Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
by [RABELAIS] GALDONE, Paul
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); yellow and red paper pictorial boards, backed in blue publisher's cloth with gilt on spine, with full color pictorial dust jacket; [30pp]. Galdone adapts the classic tale from Rabelais, through full color illustrations on each page. Text block is clear and sound, with very minor wear and creasing throughout; front and rear endpapers are also illustrated with a Parisian street map design. Boards lightly worn and faded. Tight binding. Near Fine. Dust jacket has some surface wear and scratching, with closed tears along the spine, front, and back panel extremities. Spine is also lightly stained, else Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46108
- Title
- The Wise Fool: based on a tale from The Third Book of Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
- Author
- [RABELAIS] GALDONE, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators; Continental Europe; France;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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