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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0895771799
- ISBN 13
- 9780895771797
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Pleasantville, NY, U.S.A.: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1984. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Afterword by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin. Fine, in blue cloth with gold-stamped titles and front board illustration, as issued without dust jacket. L44
Synopsis
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the bestselling novels of all time, both for the atmosphere that Dickens’ creates and the tension he weaves. Full of love and brutality, A Tale of Two Cities exposes the highs and lows of humanity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10651
- Title
- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0895771799
- ISBN 13
- 9780895771797
- Publisher
- The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FRANCE FICTION PARIS BRITISH IRISH France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Literature;
- Product_type
- 2
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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