SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles Dickens:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Nicholson and Sons London undated ?1880/90 Fair (no dj, stained and worn blue cloth, bevel edged boards, worn top and base of spine and 1" split up side of spine, all corners bumped, gilt titles and rather faded gilt vignette spine, front board has black stamped borders and gilt title with gilt portrait vignette and facsimile signature, dark grey endpapers, couple of small stains outside page edges and medium/light spotting, internally binding tight, foxing to margins of few central pages and occasional isolated speckles in margins) 12mo 445pp plus 3pp publisher's adverts one of which has small tear. Half title page not illustrated, illustrated title page and b/w frontis. B/w illustrations in the text.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54075
- Title
- SKETCHES BY BOZ Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
- Author
- Charles Dickens:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Nicholson and Sons London undated ?1880/90
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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About the Seller
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theberton suffolk
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- Half Title
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- 12mo
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- Vignette
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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