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Bleak House
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Phildelphia: Getz & Buck, 1853. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 313pp. Contemporary half-calf, paper covered boards, 8 plates including frontispiece. Covers are soiled and scuffed, edges worn. Contents are tanned and occasionally foxed, endpapers have owner's name, pencil scribbles and residue from label removal, gutters exposed but binding is tight. An early pirated edition, published in 1853, shortly after the First London Edition.
Synopsis
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by omniscient narrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003226
- Title
- Bleak House
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Getz & Buck
- Place of Publication
- Phildelphia
- Date Published
- 1853
- Pages
- 313
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jarndyce Guppy Bagnet Jellyby Turveydrop Summerson Philadelphia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction;
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About the Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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