Charles Dickens's Works (15 Volume Set)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: George Routledge and Sons. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (c. 1890). First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full dark green cloth with blind-stamped front covers and spines decorated with flowers and leaves, gilt panel on spine with green lettering and small title on spine in gilt. Profusely illustrated with B&W plates by various illustrators.. Head and heels of spine are lightly rubbed and slightly frayed, damp staining to the edges of seven volumes not affecting the text, two volumes have slight rippling to the covers, some weakened or cracked hinges, and one volume is a slightly different color than the remaining 14, but overall unmarked, square and clean. A large, heavy set - additional shipping charges may apply. . Copperfield Edition Series. B&W drawings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16792
- Title
- Charles Dickens's Works (15 Volume Set)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (c. 1890)
- Keywords
- Sets;, Literature;, Fiction;, Diskens;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...