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THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, Fourth State., small Octavo, Pp. 8 [173] 2 Adverts, wood-engraved frontispiece. Illustrations by D. Maclise, R. Doyle, C. Standfield and J. Leech, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth, covers decorated in blind, upper cover pictorially gilt design, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pale yellow-coated end papers, all edges gilt. Owner Bookplate to front end page. .
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015617
- Title
- THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION,DICKENS, CHARLES,THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. A Fairy Tale of Home
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- Fiction;
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Naas, Kildare
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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