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Dame Durden: Little Woman from The Bleak House of Charles Dickens.
by (Dickens, Charles)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Redfield, 1855. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. René Bull. 175pp. No date, but circa 1855. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt decoration on spine. Boards have edgewear and darkening, spine is chipped at head and tail and darkened (probably charred from fire), but contents are foxed and occasionally dampstained. There is some splitting at front hinge and frontispiece is partially loose.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000842
- Title
- Dame Durden: Little Woman from The Bleak House of Charles Dickens.
- Author
- (Dickens, Charles)
- Illustrator
- René Bull
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Redfield
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1855
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Keywords
- Jellyby Guardian Caddy Woodcourt Turkeydrop
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction;
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About the Seller
Old Bookshelf
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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