Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Camden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. 1st Ed. hardcover. Very Good-. 8vo, color marbled boards halfbound in green leather with raised bands on spine, all edges marbled, corners and edges scraped and rubbed, spine faded, hinges and binding are tight, illustrated with engravings, all plates present, slight offset shadow on pages opposite plates, otherwise pages are clean, with all 1st edition point typographical errors, 624 pages
Synopsis
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by omniscient narrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16836
- Title
- Bleak House
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
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Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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
- ...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...