Life of Charles Dickens
by Mackenzie, Shelton R
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers , 1870. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on spine and front cover, triple stamped border. Brown endpapers, foxing on a few pages -- most pages clean and bright, With dickens portrait frontispiece. Top edge of front board crushed. Includes "the dickens controversy" at the end. Also facsimile autograph. Light wear at extremities, corners lightly bumped, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD condition. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003019
- Title
- Life of Charles Dickens
- Author
- Mackenzie, Shelton R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. B. Peterson & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1870
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...