A Dickens Christmas Collection
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0877881707
- ISBN 13
- 9780877881704
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Wheaton, Illinois: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1995. NF/NF. First edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine top. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($14.99) with faint wear to the spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 169 pages. 7 ¼ x 10¼" tall.
No one better captures the warmth and sacredness of the spirit of Christmas than Dickens does through his memorable characters and stories. While A Christmas Carol is NOT included, this beautifully bound gift collection contains several other Christmas-related selections from a variety of his novels and stories, as well as his classic retelling of the life of Christ, The Life of Our Lord, written for his own children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3396
- Title
- A Dickens Christmas Collection
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0877881707
- ISBN 13
- 9780877881704
- Publisher
- Harold Shaw Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Wheaton, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 169
- Size
- 7.25 x 10.25
- Keywords
- christmas, christmas tree, the life of our lord,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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