Dombey and Son: Household Edition
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Plano, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son complete in four volumes. Part of Sheldon's "Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition." One B&W illustration in each volume with tipped-in protective tissue. Black cloth (faded) with gilt lettering and publisher medallion on spine; gilt medallion on front.
FON on FFEP of each volume.
Covers are faded, stained, and bumped, with wear on the top & heels of spines. Pages are age tanned with occasional stains. Volume 1-3 are cracked at half title.
Synopsis
Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. It follows the narrative of a shipping firm owner, who abandoned his family in favor of fortune after rejecting his daughter’s love in preference of a son. He later reconciles with her and begs forgiveness before his death. Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation . Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but traveled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DH10
- Title
- Dombey and Son
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, four volumes
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sheldon and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1862
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dickens, dombey, household edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Novels; Works of Charles Dickens; Works of Charles Dickens: Household Edition;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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