London: Punch Office. Good+. 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown leather, raised bands on spine & decorated with gilt . Gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Text tight & clean. Pictorial frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. 12 illustrations on steel. The original front, back cover and spine preserved at the end of the book. Front hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. ; Steel engraving; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages .

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Bookseller: Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9346
Title: A MAN MADE OF MONEY (1949)
Author: Jerrold, Douglas
Illustrator: John Leech
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Punch Office
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1849
Keywords: Fiction

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Nick Bikoff, Bookseller

Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.

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Nick Bikoff, Bookseller

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Fairfield, New Jersey

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About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller

Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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,...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...