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Dombey and Son (Two Volumes)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Venice, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Limited Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry C. Pitz. Two volumes in slipcase. Number 331 of 1500 copies; SIGNED by the illustrator Henry C. Pitz. Publication # 274 from the Limited Editions Club. Full title from the title page: "Dealing with the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation." Introduction by John Winterich. Color plates reproduced by George C. Miller. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Bound in rose-red buckram with paper labels on spines. 798 numbered pp. in all - Volume 1: xvi, 396 pp. Volume 2: 402 pp.(begins with page number 397). Very mild fading to spines. Small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown in Volume 2; the same volume has a stray mark on fore-edge of text block. One page has some light, stray marks in margin - otherwise remarkably clean with no names or other marks. Tightly bound and housed in a Very Good publisher's box that is rubbed on top but very solid with no cracks, splits, or marks.
Synopsis
Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. It follows the narrative of a shipping firm owner, who abandoned his family in favor of fortune after rejecting his daughter’s love in preference of a son. He later reconciles with her and begs forgiveness before his death. Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation . Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but traveled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son.
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- Bookseller
- RC Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004516
- Title
- Dombey and Son (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Henry C. Pitz
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Charles Dickens Henry C. Pitz John Winterich George C. Miller Joseph Blumenthal The Limited Editions Club Dealing with the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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