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Dickens's Continental ABC Railway Guide
by (Dickens, Charles)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 320pp. No date c 1880. Brown pebbled boards. Spine missing, front hinge tender, front endpapers corners chipped, library stamp and numberon title page and contents page and 2 other pages, contents otherwise claean and text block is tight. Train schedules and fares of European cities. An uncommon publication by the eldest son of Charles Dickens.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003446
- Title
- Dickens's Continental ABC Railway Guide
- Author
- (Dickens, Charles)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Railroads Trains Travel Europe "Charles Dickens" P
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Geography;
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About the Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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