Sketches by Boz (Volume Two, only, of Two): Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Gadshill. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle, top edge gilt, several pages uncut. Illustrated with 27 B&W engravings. . Spine sunned, font hinge starting, endpapers foxed, pages splitting at 64,128, 144, 224, 272, and 236, else square, unmarked, and clean. GOOD. READING COPY ONLY. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 426 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17173
- Title
- Sketches by Boz (Volume Two, only, of Two): Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Gadshill. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Short Stories, Social Criticism, Pseudonym, Dickens, Victorian England, Fiction;, Novel, Non-fiction, Courtship
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Palatine, Illinois
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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