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Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. New Edition, Complete. Full Leather. Very Good. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 526pp. With 40 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Half-title. This is the first issue of the octavo edition with strand on title page, plates after page 121 have publisher's imprint. Bound into full brown leather, gilt decorated spine, black spine label. Marble endpapers and foredges. Front hinge is rubbed and worn. Pen inscription dated 1861 on front blank free endpaper. Eckel p. 19.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70799
- Title
- Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition, Complete
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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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