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The Life of Our Lord, Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/good +
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Green cloth boards with facsimile Dickens signature in gilt on cover. Black title stamping on spine. All edges painted black. Loss to bottom edge of dust jacket (see photo). 128 pp. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches tall, 16mo. The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus of Nazareth written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing David Copperfield. The Life of Our Lord was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death. -- wikipedia
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1042
- Title
- The Life of Our Lord, Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
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Uncommon Works
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- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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...
- 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....
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