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St Francis of Assisi
de G K Chesterton
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good.
- Librería
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder and Stoughton, Undated . Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. Very early edtion, possibly 1926. Brown cloth boards with gilt lines and tipped in painting to front, gilt lettering to spine. Edges are bumped. Markings to front and especially to rear boards. Heavy grey card endpapers and two further pages at front and rear, with tipped in paintings with tissue guard to frontispiece and title page by F Cayley-Robinson. Five further tipped in paintings with guards. Old photographs of Assisi have been pasted in to front free endpaper, and inner rear page. Pages are age tanned with occasional foxing especially to prelims and printed on cream laid paper. Binding is tight. 8vo.
Sinopsis
Chesterton's biography of Saint Francis of Assisi is a classic portrait of the saint. Chesterton tries to bring us as close to Francis' interior life as an external observer can manage to be.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4760
- Título
- St Francis of Assisi
- Autor
- G K Chesterton
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- Undated
- Tamaño
- 8vo.
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Reader’s Books
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Petworth, West Sussex
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Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- 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...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
