Charles Dickens His Life and Work
by Leacock, Stephen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Hardcover, salmon cloth in dust-jacket. 322 pages. Chronology, Index. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings from the novels and holograph manuscript pages. No price on jacket flap, presumed book club issue. Dated 1936 on title-page. A well written and researched biography of the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A clean, sound and unmarked copy in a very worn and tattered dust-jacket. Very good in a poor dust-jacket. Podeschi H293.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000076
- Title
- Charles Dickens His Life and Work
- Author
- Leacock, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, DICKENSIANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickensiana;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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