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A Shabby Genteel Story
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Williamsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: New York University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. University library withdrawal stamp in ink on the front pastedown, library withdrawal stamp in ink to the head edge of the text block. Evidence of removal of a label at the upper left of front cover. Spine tail a bit rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket.; Thackeray's humorous farce that satirizes relationships and proper society: as applicable today, as then. This novel was never fully developed or completed, but ends at a logical point in the story. Includes the Author's brief explanation of why the work was left unfinished. Each chapter begins with an engraved cut illustration that functions as a dropped capital and incorporates the appropriate alphabetic letter. Various engraved cuts throughout. Text reproduced as-typeset in the 1879 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ltd., Menston, Yorkshire, England on laid, watermarked, Abby Mill paper. Reddish cloth over boards. A tight, clean copy with sharp corners. Ex-library, so graded Very Good +.; Drawings and Engravings; Tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; [3]4-103 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1001
- Title
- A Shabby Genteel Story
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Literature, Satire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature; English Literature;
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Text Block
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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