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The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives
by Ellis, George Agar
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1826. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 352 pages. Hardcover bound in full brown leather with cover designs in gilt. Modern leather reback with red leather labels and raised bands on the spine. The original leather near the rebacked spine is darkened and chipped in places, but the binding is quite sturdy.The outer edges of the text block are marbled. Marbled endpapers, which have a little chipping about the edges. The text is clean and sound. An attractive copy.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051353
- Title
- The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives
- Author
- Ellis, George Agar
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray, Albemarle Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1826
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1826; The Hon. George Agar Ellis; The Iron Mask; Nonfiction; History; French History; Political Prisoner; Rare; Fine Bindings; Leather Bindings; 19th Century Book; France; Kink Louis.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Europe;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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