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A Shabby Genteel Story
de Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
-
Williamsville, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: New York University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. University library withdrawal stamp in ink on the front pastedown, library withdrawal stamp in ink to the head edge of the text block. Evidence of removal of a label at the upper left of front cover. Spine tail a bit rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket.; Thackeray's humorous farce that satirizes relationships and proper society: as applicable today, as then. This novel was never fully developed or completed, but ends at a logical point in the story. Includes the Author's brief explanation of why the work was left unfinished. Each chapter begins with an engraved cut illustration that functions as a dropped capital and incorporates the appropriate alphabetic letter. Various engraved cuts throughout. Text reproduced as-typeset in the 1879 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ltd., Menston, Yorkshire, England on laid, watermarked, Abby Mill paper. Reddish cloth over boards. A tight, clean copy with sharp corners. Ex-library, so graded Very Good +.; Drawings and Engravings; Tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; [3]4-103 pages .
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Detalles
- Librería
- 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1001
- Título
- A Shabby Genteel Story
- Autor
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition Thus
- Editorial
- New York University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1971
- Palabras clave
- Literature, Satire
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction; Literature; English Literature;
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Williamsville, New York
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
