The Adventures of Oliver Twist and A Tale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1111. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. George Cruikshank and H.K. Browne. With Forty Illustrations by Cruikshank and H.K. Browne. Not dated. Edition and printing not known. In good brown half leather with marbled boards; five horizontal raised bands to spine; two inserted brown title fields with gilt titles. The covers are firm, straight and clean, with sound edges. Evidence of previous repair work done to spine; and front sides of spine cracked, ends a little worn. Very slightly tanned and foxed end papers; gutter areas is worn. Red mottled cut edges, slightly tanned; the top edge has a dark tint. The text block is tightly bound and straight; prelims marked and lightly foxed. The main block of pages is mostly quite clean, but with some marks and foxing. The illustrations by George Cruikshank and H.K. Browne are well preserved, but three from Oliver Twist are loose - opposite pages 50, 82 and 126 and frontispiece is missing though tissue guard remains. A Tale of Two Cities section is in better condition, Overall, quite a good example for age - good condition. No jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clevedon Community Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56202
- Title
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist and A Tale Of Two Cities
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank and H.K. Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Pages
- 665
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- HF
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About the Seller
Clevedon Community Bookshop
Biblio member since 2012
Clevedon, Somerset
About Clevedon Community Bookshop
Clevedon Community Bookshop, co-operatively owned, opened on 31 December 2011 and now has a general stock of approximately 20,000 books. Our bookshop in Copse Road is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The co-operative comprises just over 600 members from around the world and was set up to stop the only second-hand bookshop in our town from closing. The benefit of being a member/shareholder is only social: no-one benefits financially. All profits are used to improve the bookshop and its stock, and, through events, to contribute to the literacy and literary profile of our town. The Bookshop Manager has fifteen years' experience in second-hand bookselling. Email us if you would like to join our co-operative and thus jointly own our bookshop with us.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.