Author: DINESEN, ISAK; D'ANDREA, BERNARD (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: Seven Gothic Tales (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library edition of this famous collection of stories by Isak Dinesen. Includes "The Deluge at Norderney," "The Old Chevalier," "The Monkey," "The Roads Around Pisa," "The Supper at Elsinore," The Dreamers," and "The Poet." Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Denmark's Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke. With illustrations by Bernard D'Andrea and a portrait of Dinesen by Ben F. Stahl near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in full dark green bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Text presented on buff, high-quality papers. Dark green silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A Near Fine copy but with one-inch shallow scratch to cover and a hint of sunning to moire endpapers; otherwise lacking damages or evidence of having been read.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (12), 446 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: Seven Gothic Tales (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library edition of this famous collection of stories by Isak Dinesen. Includes "The Deluge at Norderney," "The Old Chevalier," "The Monkey," "The Roads Around Pisa," "The Supper at Elsinore," The Dreamers," and "The Poet." Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Denmark's Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke. With illustrations by Bernard D'Andrea and a portrait of Dinesen by Ben F. Stahl near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in full dark green bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Text presented on buff, high-quality papers. Dark green silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A Near Fine copy but with one-inch shallow scratch to cover and a hint of sunning to moire endpapers; otherwise lacking damages or evidence of having been read.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (12), 446 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 31.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87265
- Book number: 87265