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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1914. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint in Burt's Home Library. 12mo. With a frontispiece plate. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spine, gilt top. A fine copy in very good printed dust jacket: with lettering and the publisher's series device printed in black and orange on the front panel and spine, a publisher's advertisement printed in black on the back panel, and a publisher's catalog: "A List of Four Hundred and Fifty Titles Published in Burt's Home Library. Price $1.25 per Volume." printed on the inside of the jacket. The publisher's address printed on the jacket is 114-120 East 23d Street, thus our attribution of the date. After the death of Albert L. Burt in 1913, the business was continued by his sons Harry, Frederick and Edward and moved "the next year" [1914] to 114-120 East Twenty-third Street. (*DLB* 49 - *Lucile Project*). An early jacketed Dickens' title.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 403435
- Title
- Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- EnglishLiterature, VintageDustjackets
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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