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Bleak House
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [1], 2-624, [2] pp. Half-bound in contemporary black calf over marbled boards, calf and board edges ruled in gilt. Spine has five raised bands and decorations and a red morocco label with gilt lettering. Bound from the parts, as evidenced from sea-green wrapper residue on one of the leaves. Illustrated by a vignette title page and an engraved frontispiece, with ten dark plates, in total the illustrations contain 40 steel lithograph plates. Lacks the advertisements, wrappers, and half-titles. Text collates as complete, as per Hatton & Cleaver. The plate that was mistakenly bound in Part 10 (Visitors at the Shooting Gallery) is bound in Part 9 in this copy, facing the correct page. The three errata as well as the errata called for by the list of illustrations are present in this copy. An old British booksellers tag is affixed to the front pastedown, Myers & Co on New Bond Street in London. Eckel 79. Hatton & Cleaver 275. Bleak House focuses on the abuses in the Courts of Chancery, and was a source of controversy for Leigh Hunt, a man who was rumoured to be the source for the character Skimpole. A Near Fine book with a few hints of wear to the extremities, a contemporary owner's name written on the front pastedown, very few spots of foxing throughout.
Synopsis
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by omniscient narrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00007549
- Title
- Bleak House
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Evening Star Books
Biblio member since 2007
Madison, Wisconsin
About Evening Star Books
We buy and sell rare and fine books in many fields. Our interests include philosophy, modern first editions, and works of historical or intellectual interest. In addition to bookselling, we regularly do valuations and appraisals for non-IRS purposes. Evening Star Books is a Limited Liability Company.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
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