Barnaby Rudge.
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Waterstain to lower right corner of some leaves and foxing throughout the text; corners of boards a little rounded; a little wea
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: Lea and Blanchard,, 1842.. First American edition; later issue.. publisher's original boards with muslin spine and printed paper label.. Waterstain to lower right corner of some leaves and foxing throughout the text; corners of boards a little rounded; a little wear to the extremities of the spine and some darkening and rubbing to paper label. A very attractive copy; extremely unusual in the original binding. . 8vo,.
Synopsis
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, commonly known as Barnaby Rudge , is an historical novel by the author Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels that Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when the book was published. It was Dickens' first attempt at an historical novel, his only other being A Tale of Two Cities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14226
- Title
- Barnaby Rudge.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's original boards with muslin spine and printed paper label.
- Book Condition
- Used - Waterstain to lower right corner of some leaves and foxing throughout the text; corners of boards a little rounded; a little wea
- Edition
- First American edition; later issue.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1842.
- Pages
- 323 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....