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Master Humphrey's Clock
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vol. Large 8vo. [5], iv, [1], 2-306; [3], vi, [1], 2-306, [2]; [3], vi, [1], 2-426 pp. Half-bound in contemporary brown calf over marbled boards, each spine has four raised bands and two black morocco labels with lettering in gilt. Bound from the weekly parts. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Illustrations are wood cuts (excepting the frontispieces), a departure from the usual steel-etching. Hatton & Cleaver 163; Eckel 67; Smith I 6. Dickens intended the story to center around a large group of characters, with new characters being introduced and old characters rotated in and out of the stories. This project was scrapped due to lack of readership and Dickens began a serial titled "The Old Curiosity Shop". These volumes contain "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge", and are bound without wrappers and the advertisements, thus the gatherings collate in sixes. A Very Good set with light wear and rubbing to the boards and scattered foxing throughout, two leaves have a small tear (not affecting the text).
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00007326
- Title
- Master Humphrey's Clock
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1841
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About the Seller
Evening Star Books
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About Evening Star Books
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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