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A Chest of Cigars
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
John Henry Nash, San Francisco, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. A Chest of Cigars, San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1918. Octavo, edition of 250, pp. [ii] 13, 1 (colophon), printed boards quarter-bound in vellum with black lettering to spine, some leaves unopened. First printed in 1845, here given sumptuous private press treatment, it's a preposterous tale of penniless young lovers who are rescued from poverty by 2,000 cigars. Condition of this book: Covers are age-toned, all else fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; England; 1900-1920; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55423. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55423
- Title
- A Chest of Cigars
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Henry Nash
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Humour; England; 1900-1920; Literature & Literary. Unbranded William Makepeace Thackeray A Chest of Cigars
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Warwick, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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