Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/none
- Seller
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San Rafael, California, United States
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About This Item
This lovely book has lush, marbled endpapers and many black and white illustrations by F. Barnard. Hinge is tight and pages are bright and clean. There is an owners bookplate on FEP. No other internal markings. Some bumping and crinkling to boards. Corners bumped. Includes a preface by Dickens and a postscript written after his visit to America, along with a complete list of books by the author available from the publisher and an index of subjects contained in the list of book titles.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
Synopsis
While writing Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' Set partly in America, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, and increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful comedy involves hypocrisy, greed, and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs. Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit is considered one of Dickens's last picaresque novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383
- Title
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- F. Barnard
- Format/Binding
- Three-Quarter bound brown and red leather and marbled boards with gilt titles and designs
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Wurtele Lovell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- no date (c. 1885)
- Pages
- 834
- Size
- 5 x 71/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Victorian Literature, England, London, Family Life, Murder
Terms of Sale
Town Books of San Anselmo
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.