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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued
- Seller
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Taylor, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelpha, PA: Porter & Coates. Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1896. Hardcover. Burgundy embossed boards with gilt titling on spine. No date of publication in book. Previous owner's name dated Aug. '97 (can only assume it to be 1897 because it's obviously not 1997) , so the date of 1896 is on the ffep which is badly foxed, and a SWAG. Satin self-bookmark still present but tanned. Binding tight and pages clean, very minor edgewear along bottom, small chip at bottom front corner of spine. ; Alta Edition Series; B&W Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 543 pages; 30987 .
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
- The Novel Shoppe
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30987
- Title
- Dombey and Son
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelpha, PA
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, Dickensiana
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About The Novel Shoppe
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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