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Denis Duval, Lovel the Widower.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Miller Place, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903. Tan cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Charles E. Brock.. From the set, The Prose Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Scarce edition. Also contains The Wolves and the Lambs, Little Travels and Road-Side Sketches. Edited by Walter Jerrold, illustrated by Charles E. Brock. 446 pages, top edge gilt, brown and tan decorative title page, front hinge starting at bottom. Frontispiece with tissue, engraving of Thackeray from a pencil sketch by Count D'Orsay. Tiny bookstore label on fep, F. Loeser & Co. Brooklyn. Uncut edges, some spotting and foxing throughout. Owner's name neatly inked on fep. Slightly misshapen, water staining along bottom inch has affected covers and decorative endpapers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monkey House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2480
- Title
- Denis Duval, Lovel the Widower.
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Charles E. Brock.
- Format/Binding
- Tan cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Monkey House Books
Biblio member since 2010
Miller Place, New York
About Monkey House Books
Monkey House Books is a mail order, used book dealer located on New York's Long Island. We offer quality used books in a variety of categories at reasonable prices. A home-based business managed by a lifelong bibliophile, Monkey House offers personalized assistance and friendly customer service. For the holidays, or anytime, we provide gift wrapping and recipient shipping upon request. We ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, and packages are wrapped and boxed using recycled/reused materials.
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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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
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