The Chimes: A Goblin Story
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Red cloth covered boards, gilt decoration and gilt lettering to front and spine, boards rubbed and stained in places, corners and spine ends bumped, gilt closed edges, light spotting to endpapapers and to the edges of some pages, binding loose, pages 85-92 detached from string binding at foot, internal gutters cracked, spot stain to reading edges of pages 79-82, otherwise text clear to read, illustrated fep and fly-title page with several illustrations throughout.. Thirteenth Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Maclise, D. Doyle, R. Leech, J Stanfield, C.. 16mo.
Synopsis
A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74016
- Title
- The Chimes: A Goblin Story
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Maclise, D. Doyle, R. Leech, J Stanfield, C.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Thirteenth Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 16mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...