Search Results: sketches by boz illustrative of by charles dickens

Wordsworth Editions, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Wordsworth Editions, 1999-12. Paperback. Good.

Chapman & Hall, Limited. Acceptable. London, no publication date; green cloth covered boards with gold titles and black embossed decoration on front board and spine; boards have beveled edges; no dust jacket; boards rubbed; light spine end and corner wear; interior hinges weak; ownership name on front paste down and half title page; end papers have sporadic light foxing; 39 illustrations with tissue guards; tissue guard at frontispiece is missing; unmarked interiors; NO library markings; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall;577 pages; Additional shipping charges may be requested for International or expedited orders.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Gadshill. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle, top edge gilt, several pages uncut. Illustrated with 27 B&W engravings. . Spine sunned, font hinge starting, endpapers foxed, pages splitting at 64,128, 144, 224, 272, and 236, else square, unmarked, and clean. GOOD. READING COPY ONLY. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 426 pp .

Independently published, 2021-04-23. Paperback. Used:Good.

MP3 Audio CD. Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER How much is conveyed in those two short words—‘The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future. His taxes are in arrear, quarter-day passes by, another quarter-day arrives: he can procure no more quarter for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To private… Read More

Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. Hard Cover. Good-/No Jacket. no date circa 1890-1900. Green cloth with gilt to spine Corner's rubbed. Text edge soiled and boards slightly warped. Cracking at hinge and front hinge fully exposed at illustration listing but still pretty tight.

MP3 Audio CD. Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER How much is conveyed in those two short words—‘The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future. His taxes are in arrear, quarter-day passes by, another quarter-day arrives: he can procure no more quarter for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To private… Read More

Independently published, 2021-04-23. Paperback. Used: Good.

Geneva, Switzerland: Edito-Service, S. A., Publishers. Hardcover. Near Fine/no dj. Introduction by Thea Holme. Illustrations by Phiz and George Cruikshank. One part only of a Complete Works Set. Binding features embossed portrait of Dickens in gilt in center of front cover. maroon leather over dark brown leather of spine. raised bands with many gilt ornaments and lines. all edges gilt with book ribbon marker. volumes are unread, tight, bright and clean. red silk endpapers. barely noticeable wear if any

Franklin Library / Oxford, 1985. Hardcover. Good. . Red leather spine with gilt decoration, red cloth boards with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark sewn-in. Minor wear and soiling to the cover, slightly tilted spine. Pages are clean.

NY: George Munro 242pp. No Date. Spine ends and tips are heavily bumped and rubbed. Spine leather and four raised spine bands are heavily rubbed. Rear board has small white stains. Former owner book plate inside front board. Pages are brown but not brittle. Page edges have light foxing. Top tip of mant pages have a small diagonal crease. Several pages have a crease near the spine head. Text is clean and unmarked. . Three-Quarter Leather. Poor/No Dust Jacket.

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd.. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good-. Various. Four volume set. Blue boards, with gilt tiltes on spine, some wear. Illustrators include Furniss, Cruikshank, "Phiz". Expedited or International shipping may cost more.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1880. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set! Red cloth boards, octavos, 393pp. and 420pp., illustrated in b&w. Books have sun to spines, bindings tight, texts have some off-setting to endpapers, toning throughout, and some erasable pencil marginalia and underlining. No DJs.

BiblioBazaar, 2007-08-29. Paperback. Good.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1868. Paperback. Good. . Original pictorial wraps show moderate wear, tear, chipping, and soiling. Pages are mostly clean with minor foxing.

BiblioBazaar, 2007-08-29. Paperback. Good.

London:: Chapman and Hall,, 1858.. publisher's cloth; gilt spine.. Some foxing to the text (mostly to the frontispiece and title page); old ink ownership names (one partially effaced); some sunning to the cloth and use at the extremities of the spine; tight and sound. . 8vo,. With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank.. Text in double columns.

BiblioBazaar, 2007-08-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. New Edition, Complete. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 268 pages. Green cloth hardcover. Most of the spine label missing. Illustrated half title page and 2 illustrated plates in text. Cloth edge worn on corners and extremities. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the double column printed text and end sheets. Faint pencil name of Otto Dresel (noted American music composer) top of right front flyleaf.