A TALE OF TWO CITIES
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company [1936] 362 pp. Original dark blue pictorial cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; owner's name on front endpaper. DJ has mild wear to edges w/ light chipping to spine ends. Lightly soiled. Illust. w/ color plates. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good. Illus. by Harvey Dunn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the bestselling novels of all time, both for the atmosphere that Dickens’ creates and the tension he weaves. Full of love and brutality, A Tale of Two Cities exposes the highs and lows of humanity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13167CH
- Title
- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Harvey Dunn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE CHILDREN STORIES LITERATURE FICTION GENERAL AUTHORS DICKENS CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM 1812 1870 LITERARY WORKS ILLUSTRATED HARVEY DUNN 1884 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
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