Tales From Dickens
by Dickens, Charles; Calista McCabe Courtenay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1917. Retellings of Dickens stories, focusing on the children involved; subjects are Little Nell (Old Curiosity Shop), Little Em'ly & David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Sissy Jupe (Hard Times), Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), the Fat Boy (Pickwick Papers), Caleb Plummer & his blind daughter Cricket on the Hearth). Hardcover, full navy cloth, gilt titling. Undated, circa 1925. Light wear to book, corners slightly bumped; jacket shows edgewear & chipping, short tears, creases; rubberstamped name & address, pencil note on free endsheet. Text clean; 96 pages, line drawings, 6 color plates as called for.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by A. M. Turner, Harriet Kaucher. 6" by 8".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- o0634
- Title
- Tales From Dickens
- Author
- Dickens, Charles; Calista McCabe Courtenay
- Illustrator
- A. M. Turner, Harriet Kaucher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Children's Books, Illustrated Books
- Size
- 6" by 8"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...