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War & Peace [Fine Binding]
by Tolstoy, Leo
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co, 1959. [Fine Binding]. Full red polished calf, green and brown morocco title labels, gilt titles, raised bands with elaborate decorative gilt compartments, gilt ruled boards and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, board edges with gilt roll, housed in custom red cloth slipcase, (8.75 x 5.5 inches). SIGNED BINDING. Finely bound, by Frost & Company, of Bath, England. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by Aylmer Maude. 1352 pages; illustrated with map. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. A clean, tight and bright copy showing some minor wear at front hinge. A desirable finely bound copy of Tolstoy's classic and condidered by many to be among the best novels ever written.. Leather. Near Fine. Octavo.
Synopsis
War and Peace, a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. First titled '1805' the first installment was published in the January 1865 edition of Russkiy Vestnik. It ran in serial form for 2 years before Tolstoy reworked much of the manuscript before publishing it in 1869 as War and Peace.
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- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005244
- Title
- War & Peace [Fine Binding]
- Author
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Fine Binding; Signed Binding; Frost & Co. Binders
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bound Books;
- Size
- Octavo
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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