HARDBACK, ?LIBRARY EDITION, VOL. XXVII,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Rep.* Date of Publication: Not dated.* Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: The boards were bound by Gale & Polden of Chatham for the 5th. Irish Lancers. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine & impressed military gilt logo to face. Considerable bumps & rubs, some shelf wear to upper & lower edges and heavy damage to head of spine. Some marks to boards. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: Officer?s Mess copy for the 5th Royal Irish Lancers with a bookplate to front paste-down & dedication to the officer?s mess. Coloured end papers (pale yellow). All edges somewhat aged. Sewn binding badly shaken but no pages missing. Contents clean and crisp, with some reading wear. A few light marks. ACC* Illustrations: Eight full page b/w line drawn illustrations.* Pages: 362 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The Un-commercial Traveller consists of a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. They first appeared in a new journal called ?All the Year Round? which he founded in 1859. These articles would be among his main contributions. Dickens began by writing seventeen episodes, which were printed in 1860. He then produced eleven more articles between 1863?65 and some more sketches written between 1868?69. The complete set of these articles was published posthumously in book-form in 1875.* An ACC only reading copy with considerable age and wear.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3463
Title: The Uncommercial Traveller
Author: Charles, Dickens
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - ACC/ACC/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Place of Publication: London UK 365
Date Published: 1880-01-01

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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"...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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....
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...