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SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day Peop le
by [Dickens, Charles] Boz
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Sacramento, California, United States
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About This Item
London Chapman and Hall . Fair. 1839. 1st edition. First edition in book form. 1st state. 8vo, three-quarter crushed black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands. viii, 526 pp. t.e.g. . e/frontispiece which is often missing. Other points: p.526 l.18 having the words 'reeledbefore' run together and all plates follo wing p.120 with publisher's imprint at bottom. Publisher’s addr ess reading '186, Strand'. A fresh, tight, textually clean copy. Cohn, 234; Eckel 15-22; Gimbel A7; Hatton & Cleaver, p.103; Jerro ld, p.364. . Block Good. Covers: worn but intact, with heavy rubbing to corn ers, edges, and spine. [see photos];. Front gutter partially crac ked but not separated. Text block is clean and tight overall but heavy toning and occasional light foxing to most of the plate mar gins and versos, not affecting the image or the facing text. Vint age bookplate on front pastedown as well as vintage description f rom a dealer catalog. Owners inked name, address and date [1857] on title page. .
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- k200420
- Title
- SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day Peop le
- Author
- [Dickens, Charles] Boz
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London Chapman and Hall
- Date Published
- 1839
- Keywords
- literature,, england
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Great Britain/England;
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About the Seller
Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera
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Sacramento, California
About Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera
80 Years of Selling Things People Could Easily Live Without -- but now Online only.*****CONDITION: We are conservative graders. If we say FINE you can count on it. If there are any minor defects [e.g. minor shelf-wear] they will be noted. VERY GOOD means there is light shelf or surface-wear, possibly some light age-toning, maybe a prior owner's inked name inside -- but no significant defects. GOOD means we wish we had a better copy too, but still in collectable condition. Any significant defects will be noted. FAIR usually means the interior is good or better but the covers are heavily worn. POOR means both the interior and the covers are damaged. Again, significant defects will be noted.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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