Literary Reminiscences; From The Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater (2 Volumes)
by DeQuincey, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. These are Very Good Plus copies of the "New Edition." Brown ribbed cloth bindings, stamped in the blind, with gilt titles on the spine. Clean text; 372 pages and 343 pageswith 16 pages of publisher's adverts (Volume #1 also has two pages in the front listing the works of DeQuincey available). Mildly bumped; edges a bit dusty; some tiny dots of speckling on the spines. A rather pleasing mid-Victorian edition of this classic work. As a very small bonus, Quercus has retained an old penciled price marking in Volume #1 - as an informational guide only! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001781
- Title
- Literary Reminiscences; From The Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater (2 Volumes)
- Author
- DeQuincey, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic English Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...