The Cricket on the Hearth: A Tale of Home
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
Item Price
NZ$58.93NZ$47.15
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1927. Book. Illus. by Brock, C. E.. Very Good. Hardcover. Printed in Great Britain, stated on copyright page. No additional statement on copyright page. 1927 publication date. Green cloth with red and gold label on front board, gilt titles on spine. Boards clean with sunning at top and bottom edges. Spine ends gently bumped. Binding sound, though illustration at p 78 with minor tears at gutter. Front end paper with upper corner clipped, else contents unmarked and clean. DJ with edges rubbed, 1/4" chip at upper corner of front panel. A few tiny closed tears and minor associated wrinkling. Spine head & heel with shallow chipping. Jacket bright and attractive, now in mylar cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 072006
- Title
- The Cricket on the Hearth: A Tale of Home
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Brock, C. E.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- SPECIAL LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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