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The Personal History of David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Rebound from parts. Top edge gilt. Five raised bands. 624 pp. 38 plates (lacks plate at p. 420). Lacks half title page. "Screwed" instead of "screamed" on p.132. First issue points include errors 'recal' on first line of p.16, , Chapter XXVII listed on page 283 but appearing on page 282, 1850 engraved into vignette title-page, uncorrected "cha pter" on page 19, p. viii in preface with last "i" not aligned, uncorrected "coroboration" on page 387. Light edge wear, including tips. Some spotting to the boards. Foxing to the vignette and to some of the plates. Sporadic, light foxing to pages containing text.
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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3175
- Title
- The Personal History of David Copperfield
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- H. K. Browne
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1850
- Pages
- 624 pages
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Charles Dickens;
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- Vignette
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- Plate
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- First Edition
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Title Page
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