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Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, Emily; Ellis, Richard (Ed); Eichenberg, Fritz (Illustrator)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, 1945. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Eichenberg, Fritz. The classic love story with unforgettable, striking woodcut illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg throughout the 213 pages of text. This is a special edition produced by Richard Ellis for the Book of the Month Club, orig. issued as part of a set with "Jane Eyre." We are offering ONLY "Wuthering Heights" here. Printing & binding by Kingsport Press of Tennessee, with illustrations printed letter press from electrotypes of the original wood engravings. Hardcover small 4to (7.75" x 10") has decorative paper (with woodcut illustration on both front & rear), with 1/4 green cloth-wrapped lettered in gilt. Condition is just Fair: VG: very clean inside with only mild page tanning, heavier around edges, but completely unmarked. However, a blank page in the front & the last 2 blank pages are partially torn out. Text block tight & square, but rear hinge is cracked. Heavy rubbing to extremities & significant corner bumping & wear. Our photos depict the exact bHeavyook you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on orders received Weekdays before 2 pm (Pacifictime); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 023240
- Title
- Wuthering Heights
- Author
- Bronte, Emily; Ellis, Richard (Ed); Eichenberg, Fritz (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Eichenberg, Fritz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- ROMANCE LITERATURE FICTION FEMALE WOMEN WRITER AUTHOR NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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.
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