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A Christmas Tree: Pictured in Colour by H.M. Brock
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
-
Plano, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
A lovely illustrated edition of Dickens' Christmas story. Olive cloth with gilt, red, and green decorations on front, along with full-color paste-down illustration. Five gorgeous full-color tipped-in illustrations on olive paper. Red-and-black title page and B&W page ornaments throughout.
FON inscribed on FFEP and small writing on RFEP.
Cover is stained with fraying on corners and edges. Spinestrip is entirely gone (see photo). Pages are age tanned.
FON inscribed on FFEP and small writing on RFEP.
Cover is stained with fraying on corners and edges. Spinestrip is entirely gone (see photo). Pages are age tanned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Y36
- Title
- A Christmas Tree
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- H.M. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- n.p.
- Date Published
- n.d. [ca 1910]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dickens, christmas tree, brock
- Bookseller catalogs
- Works of Charles Dickens; PWK Children's;
Terms of Sale
PWK Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PWK Books
Biblio member since 2020
Plano, Texas
About PWK Books
Independent seller of antiquarian books. Prices as listed. PWK Books sells exclusively through Biblio.
Will be closed December 15-January 1.
Will be closed December 15-January 1.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
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