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A Tale of Two Cities (Half-Leather Binding)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Andrew Melrose, 1907. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. John Jellicoe. Burgundy half-leather with gilt crest of Shebbear College to front, gilt titles on burgundy panels on spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration to panels. Binding tight. Head of spine worn and darkened, rubbing to foot, spine edges and corners. Leather on back lower corner rubbed. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Shebbear College prize presentation label to front free endpaper awarded to P. Jolliffe for Mathematics dated 1911. Light foxing to endpapers and occasionally on text block edge. Content clean and bright. B/w plates by John Jellicoe. Not ex-library. No notes or inscriptions. 407 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
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
- Soin2Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001095
- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities (Half-Leather Binding)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- John Jellicoe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Pages
- 407
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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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