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The Children of Dickens
by Crothers, Samuel McChord
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1929. Hardcover, black cloth with large pictorial paste-down on front cover. 259 pages. Early reprint of this Scribners Classic edition, illustrated with 10 full color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Pictorial end-papers. Front inner hinge cracked and boards and paste-down worn. Rear cover stained and faded. Interior clean and all color plates intact and fine. An acceptable copy of a collectible edition. Fair. . Reprint. Cloth with Pastedowns. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002372
- Title
- The Children of Dickens
- Author
- Crothers, Samuel McChord
- Illustrator
- Jessie Wilcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Dickensiana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickensiana;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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