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(The Christmas Books) The Battle of Life. A Love Story, bound with The Cricket on the Hearth. Fairy Tale of Home
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Two volumes bound together in one. First Edition, fourth stae of The Battle of Life, with a banner with a figure. Smith II, 8. First Edition of Cricket on the Hearth, both volumes bound without the advertisements. Both volumes with engraved frontispiece and pictorial title pages. Handsomely bound in half calf over red pebbled morocco boards, end papers and edges marbled, armorial bookplate front paste down, prior owner name in ink verso of front marbled end paper. 175, 174 pages, with illustrations in the text. Very Good Plus, light rubbing to calf at edges and joints. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010149
- Title
- (The Christmas Books) The Battle of Life. A Love Story, bound with The Cricket on the Hearth. Fairy Tale of Home
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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