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Sketches By Boz; A Tale of Two Cities. Two Volumes in One
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1885. Title page dated 1885. Dickens classic illustrated with engravings, two titles in one binding. Bright green Victorian cloth binding gilt lettering and elaborate gilt decoration on spine, cover decoration stamped in blind, about 8" tall. Very good condition with very light external rubbing, gilt bright and clear, good hinges, sound text block, very lightly age-toned but very clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens's giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036271
- Title
- Sketches By Boz; A Tale of Two Cities. Two Volumes in One
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Belford, Clarke & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CLASSIC FICTION BRITISH VICTORIAN AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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