Illustrated Book Lover*s Edition: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair to Good w tape-patched & chipped spine (but titling still present), worn corners & edges but boards still bright, all conte
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
Booklover Press, nd [ca 1900]. Hardcover in green & brown marbled boards w leather spine & corners, gilt print & decorations on spine, top edge gilt. Fair to Good w tape-patched & chipped spine (but titling still present), worn corners & edges but boards still bright, all contents unmarked & clean, binding tight. Turn-of-the-century deluxe copy of early Dickens novel (1839), illustrated w 13 full-page b/w illustrations. A worn but still functional antique. Very rare edition.
846 pp, b/w illus, brown & green marbled endpapers
846 pp, b/w illus, brown & green marbled endpapers
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5454
- Title
- Illustrated Book Lover*s Edition: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in green & brown marbled boards w leather spine & corners, gilt print & decorations on spine, top edge gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good w tape-patched & chipped spine (but titling still present), worn corners & edges but boards still bright, all conte
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Booklover Press
- Date Published
- nd [ca 1900]
- Keywords
- Literature & Classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Classics;
Terms of Sale
edburynbooks
Books are returnable for full refund but the buyer pays the return postage. If the book was as described by the seller, no original postage charge will be refunded.
About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- 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.
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...
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