Poor Miss Finch: A Novel
by Collins, Wilkie
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. c1873 Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Harper's Illustrated Library Edition. This is a later printing. NOT ex-library. No date on title page & the verso shows a list of 15 titles with a price of $1.25 per volume; this was done for later printings. Following this is a printed facsimile dedication page in Collins' hand dated 1873. Hardcover has green pebble-textured cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and author�s facsimile signature on front cover. Front & back covers have blind-stamped ruled borders; back cover has blind-stamped publisher's logo. Dark brown coated endpapers. Black & white frontispiece, not tissued. Black & white illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked; binding slightly pulled inside rear endpaper. Back cover has light moisture damage to the bottom corner; interior NOT affected. Corners & spine ends lightly rubbed. Name stamped in ink at top of title page. A few small spots on bottom page edges. Pages clean & unmarked. 454 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3862
- Title
- Poor Miss Finch: A Novel
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
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