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Charcoal Sketches; or, Scenes in a Metropolis
by Neal, Joseph C. Illustrated By David C. Johnston
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838. Second edition, 1838, same year as the first edition. With four engraved caricature plates. Purple cloth with paper spine label, 222 pages. Covers rubbed with some chipping to the spine label, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound, preliminary blank and title page detached but present, foxing throughout, name of M. Dyer inside front cover and at the top of the title page. . Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045966
- Title
- Charcoal Sketches; or, Scenes in a Metropolis
- Author
- Neal, Joseph C. Illustrated By David C. Johnston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- E. L. Carey and A. Hart
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1838
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- HUMOR SATIRE CARICATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Cloth
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- Spine Label
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- Fair
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
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