Christmas Books and Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chapman and Hall, 1111. Hardcover. Good. Memorial Edition. 566 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Small stickers to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Heavier to endpapers & paste downs. Contains deckled text block edges. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light tanning & crushing to spine. Minor splits causing fraying to cloth at spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1674817011MHP
- Title
- Christmas Books and Hard Times
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...