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Vathek
de Beckford, William
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Good dust jacket
- Librería
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The John Day Company. Fine in Good dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Ben Ray Redman. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. New York: John Day Company, 1928. 8vo. First Edition (First Published, November, 1928 on copyright page). Lg 8vo. xx,230pp. Full green cloth, design in gilt and black, gilt letters. Book in fine condition; green jacket chipped with some loss of image (more at top edge), spine toned. Slipcase has same illustration at the dj, lacking top panel, spine panel toned, moderate loss to edges. Endpapers illustrated in green, over 100 full page and text illustrations in b&w.; Over 100 illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 230 pages .
Sinopsis
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition was published in 1787.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8232
- Título
- Vathek
- Autor
- Beckford, William
- Ilustrador
- Mahlon Blaine
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Good dust jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- The John Day Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1928
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Illustrated Book
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
