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A Tale of Two Cities (Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series)
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. Leather. The twelfth novel of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) first appeared in installments in 1859 and is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. It is offered here in a deluxe leatherbound reprint edition by the Easton Press. With illustrations in both black & white and color by René Ben Sussan. This edition with a publisher's preface, an introduction by John T. Winterich and includes a frontis portrait of Dickens by Walter Brooks. Issued as part of the publisher's Collector's Edition series: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. --- Bound in full dark green leather covers with distinctive gilt decorations stamped on covers and spine. Titling stamped on spine in gilt, with four raised bands. AEG (all edges gilt). Printed on quality papers and with orange silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. --- A clean, bright, unmarked copy though with slight scratches to fore-edge gilding and a tiny scuffed spot to front cover. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued).; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [26], 13-371 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88258
- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities (Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series)
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1981
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Fine
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- Edges
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