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American Notes, Sketches By Boz and Christmas Books...
de DICKENS Charles 1812-1870
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Cheap Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. STANFIELD C. CRUIKSHANK George. LEECH John.. The Cheap Edition, 1st Series, VG 1850, 1850, 1852. In red half calf, marbled boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, edges bumped and worn, title in gilt to black calf label, joints worn. Internally, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled in red and blue, some light foxing to front and rear blanks. 3 stories each with a plate from the Cheap edition, 1st issue bound in 1, all printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. (179*123 mm). American notes for General Circulation, 1850, frontis by T Bolton, (v-xiii), [1], 175 pp, 1 pl, [1]. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank, Chapman and Hall, 1850, (v-xiv), [2], 303 pp, 1 pl, . Christmas Books, Chapman and Hall, 1852, frontispiece by John Leech, [4], 266 pp, which contains The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Heath, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. A lovely book with a great feel to it. Uncommon! (see Eckel 113, 15, 116, 121, 125, 127 & 131 for info) American notes was written in 1842 upon Dickens's first return from the US. With regard to Sketches by Boz, Dickens stated that his share was only £400 whilst his publisher made 10 times that amount! Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist see ODNB for a full Bio.
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- Librería
- Madoc Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003700
- Título
- American Notes, Sketches By Boz and Christmas Books...
- Autor
- DICKENS Charles 1812-1870
- Ilustrador
- STANFIELD C. CRUIKSHANK George. LEECH John.
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Cheap Edition
- Editorial
- Chapman and Hall
- Lugar de publicación
- London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1850
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Peso
- 1.76 libras
- Palabras clave
- Dickens Literature Tales Stories Fiction Classics American Notes Sketches Boz Christmas Books
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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- 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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
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