Dickens: A Biography
by KAPLAN, Fred
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0688043410
- ISBN 13
- 9780688043414
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0688043410 . Fourth printing of the author's hefty biography of Charles Dickens, the great English novelist famous for "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations", "A Christmas Carol" and so many other great works. With a section of black & white photos. With extensive endnotes and index. --- In buff paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket features drawing of Dickens on cover. --- With slight smudge to cover and prior owner's sticker to front paste-down, else a bright, clean, firm copy. Unclipped jacket with slight rubbing but otherwise bright and lacking damages.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall) ; 608 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80524
- Title
- Dickens: A Biography
- Author
- KAPLAN, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0688043410
- ISBN 13
- 9780688043414
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0688043410
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.