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The Old Curiosity Shop
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Richard Edward King, 1111. Book. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 185mm Tall, 12mo. Not dated. [1892] 337 pages. Dark red cloth covers. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Blind stamped horizontal nine line decoration at base of front cover with similar three lines at top. Gilt top page edges. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Front pastedown hinge cracked. Browning to pastedowns. Foxing to margins of title page and prelims, similar with endpapers. Light wear to joints of spine, top/tail of spine and cover corners..
Synopsis
The Old Curiosity Shop, what would become Charles Dickens’ fourth novel, was first published in 88 weekly installments in Dickens’ serial, Master Humphrey’s Clock, from April 1840 to February 1841. In a tale that survives the transcendence of time, The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of thirteen-year-old Nell Trent and her grandfather who live in The Old Curiosity Shop, a small antique and gift store. The unnamed grandfather, desperate to leave Nell in good financial standing after his death, loses The Old Curiosity Shop to a gambling problem, forcing him and young Nell to wander the countryside.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andmeister Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005270
- Title
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Another Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Edward King
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 185mm Tall, 12mo
- Keywords
- Literature, Victorian fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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