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The Life of Charlotte Bronte. In Two Volumes
by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. Early printing, same year as the first edition, first Tauchnitz printing. Two volumes in one binding. Collection of British Authors Series, but without half-titles indicating such. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, marbled edges, 314 + 298 pages. Covers rubbed, chip to spine head, front joint reglued (not professionally, but the cover is securely attached), text block sound, pages clean, no names or other markings. . Hard Cover. Fair. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047556
- Title
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte. In Two Volumes
- Author
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 24mo - over 5" - 5¾&
- Keywords
- BRITISH WOMEN AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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....
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