Household Words: Christmas Stories. 1851-1858
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, circa 1870. second collected edition (first 1859), original binding and adverts present front and rear, octavo, blue boards with gilt, red and black lettering and design to front board and spine, red page edges, 4pp adverts + 24pp + 36pp + 36pp + 36pp + 36pp + 36pp + 36pp + 36pp + 20pp adverts (each story paginated individually), VG (binding worn with closed tears and small chips to head and tail of spine and heavy bruising to corners, light tanning, pencil annotations to some parts of text), lacks d/w
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127332
- Title
- Household Words: Christmas Stories. 1851-1858
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, circa 1870
- Keywords
- charles dickens household words christmas stories literature
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- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.