The Penny Dreadful: Or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!
by Haining, Peter (ed)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575017791
- ISBN 13
- 9780575017795
- Seller
-
Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. 1st edition. Hardback. Red cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 382 pages. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of the engravings from the original serials. Good in Good jacket. Top edges of the boards dull. Page edges tanned and rather foxed, as are the endpapers. Jacket has some wear and creasing along its top edge and a slightly darkened spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alex Richardson
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2304
- Title
- The Penny Dreadful: Or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!
- Author
- Haining, Peter (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575017791
- ISBN 13
- 9780575017795
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth, Century, 19th, English, Serial, Magazine, Magazines, Popular, Horror, Mystery, Crime, Anthology, Anthologies
Terms of Sale
Alex Richardson
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About the Seller
Alex Richardson
Biblio member since 2021
Sandy, Bedfordshire
About Alex Richardson
Online bookseller with a growing list of finds and a dedication to accurate description, careful packing and prompt fulfillment. Aiming for "eclectic", hoping at least for "miscellaneous but interesting".
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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