The Old Curiosity Shop Volume 1 & 2. the Reprinted Pieces.
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George Routledge & Sons. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover. Clean square book bound in half calf (spine and corners) with marbled boards and marbled endpapers and marbled foreedge and bottom edge. Leather corners show wear. Quite readable bright text; hinges shaken but text block tight. 435 pp + 150 pp + 435 pp circa 1880's. 32 full page woodcuts and title page vignette. ; Charles Dickens's Works; 1020 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56500
- Title
- The Old Curiosity Shop Volume 1 & 2. the Reprinted Pieces.
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Frederick Barnard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
Terms of Sale
B-Line Books
Return: If the book is not as described, we will refund cost of book and shipping. If for any reason the buyer does not want the book, even though it is as described, we will offer a refund minus shipping both ways (within 14 days).
About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...