This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...Gardilanne that his haunting suspicions were well founded. At breakfast he had asked for mustard, and the old domestic hastened to the kitchen and brought him back some, in a charming Nevers mustard-pot with painted designs. At sight of it, Gardilanne gave a little involuntary cry of admiration. Dal&gre, on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...Gardilanne that his haunting suspicions were well founded. At breakfast he had asked for mustard, and the old domestic hastened to the kitchen and brought him back some, in a charming Nevers mustard-pot with painted designs. At sight of it, Gardilanne gave a little involuntary cry of admiration. Dal&gre, on the contrary, cried out in angry protest, and Marguerite in dismay, at the thought of her stupid maladdress. Then all three actors in the little scene remained for an instant overwhelmed and stricken dumb. Gardilanne was the first to recover his self-possession. Stretching out his hand to take the piece, he remarked, admiringly, "A mustard-pot of uncommon elegance, that." "0, no great affair," rejoined Dalegre, nonchalantly but stretching out his own hand at the same time, to protect it. "Charming! exquisite! and without the slightest flaw!" "Yes, I believe it is rather good," Dalegre now conceded. "But you said there was nothing of this kind to be had here?" "A mere windfall, a chance, such as might not happen again in a hundred years." "If I could only manage to leave Nevers with a single piece like this, I should consider my journey exceedingly well repaid." He held the mustard-pot caressingly and turned and turned it again. He extended it toward the light, to get the reflection on its glaze; he admired it with loud ejaculations and again with impressive silences; he half-closed his eyes, he reopened them, and then he clacked his tongue in the roof of his mouth, as if he were tasting some rare wine. During these manoeuvres, at least, Dalegre had the courage to look his rival in the face. He stared hard at every one of his gestures and every gradation of them, with a fear that th...
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Good in poor dust jacket. Brown Leather Cover is in verhy poor condition, Text is Very Good. 205 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Translated from the French by Helen B, Dole
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Fair. Bound in soft brown leather. Translation by Helen Dole. Front cover barely attached, but text block binding is solid. Pages unmarked and barely aged. Gilt top edge. Red ribbon bookmark in excellent condition. Leather cover has only minor wear to edges, but spine cover is quite worn and chipped, including tiny hole on rear hinge. No dustjacket at issue. No slipcase.
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(1895) GOOD condition; cloth has wear to extrems and panels; there is discoloration to pages, but no markings to the text. Bookplate of former owner to front paste-down. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Read but in very good condition. Size: 0x0x0; Small book. Light floral cover with gilt, light wear around the edges, spine is age darkened, owner's bookplate on the inside front cover, text is bright and unmarked, binding is tight. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
