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MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate General Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Three volumes bound into one from the 88 monthly parts. Rebacked with new leather spine label. Marbled boards are scuffed. Volume 1 is dated 1840. Volumes 2 and 3 are dated 1841. Contains the complete "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge". They were later published as separate books. Illustrations by H.K. Browne, George Cattermole, Samuel Williams, Daniel Maclise. A total of 198 illustrations through the three volumes. Rear endpapers stained. Occasional internal spotting, but a rather clean copy throughout. Covers just a bit shabby. See Smith 1:6 and Eckel p.66. 306, 306, 426pp.. First Edition. Half Brown Calf. Moderate General Wear/No Jacket. Thick Royal Octavo.
Synopsis
Master Humphrey's Clock was an ambitious weekly literary magazine published by Dickens himself. Lasting only from 1840 to 1841, it spun off some major works, including "The Old Curiosity Shop" and this collection of stories and sketches. The narrator is Master Humphrey , not "churlish" and not a "misanthrope", who describes his daily life and his encounters with vivid characters including Mr. Pickwick. The clock is his old companion, where he stores manuscripts.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014085
- Title
- MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate General Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1840
- Size
- Thick Royal Octavo
- Keywords
- English Literature, Dickens
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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