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The Old Curiosity Shop
by Dickens, Charles; Elizabeth M. Brennan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0198124937
- ISBN 13
- 9780198124931
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardback. 0198124937 . [First Edition] Dust jacket bright and stiff, lightly scuffed at the edges, wrapped in a removable archival sleeve, unclipped; Boards clean and firm, bound elegantly in dark navy cloth with undiminished gilt titles and sharp corners; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotations, pages crisp and bright; Binding tight. Overall an attractive, sturdy copy of this definitive edition in very good condition. Scarce. ; The Clarendon Dickens; 8.4 X 5.9 X 2.0 inches; 742 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46465
- Title
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Author
- Dickens, Charles; Elizabeth M. Brennan
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198124937
- ISBN 13
- 9780198124931
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0198124937
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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