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Seller's Description:
Very Good in good jacket. First edition, 1921. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 349 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in a Good dust jacket, some soil and rubbing to the covers, soil and discoloration to the dust jacket, wear to the dust jacket including chipping, tearing, and some loss. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Very Good. Very good. General wear and tear along spine and browning of page edges. Slight marking on front end paper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback Frederick A. Stokes, NY 1921-1922. Volume I (of Four Volume Set). Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. Blue cloth with bright and sharp gilt 'punch' on front and decoration and titles on spine, stamped border on front, some whitish discoloration on front and back, corners and spine ends loghtly scuffed; tight, solid and square sewn binding. Frontis is loose from binding, which illus is onion-skin protected. Illustrations from "Punch" throughout that depict times, people, customs of England at the time so well. Pages are lightly toned, very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. This chronicle of social life in England in the Victorian Age (1837-1901) is drawn in essentials from the pages of "Punch". "Punch' began as a radical and democratic paper, a champion of the poor, the desolate and the oppressed. There is a mixture of jocularity, comedy and intense earnestness in this approach. Many areas of life in mid-nineteenth century England are explored: the people, Chartism, machinery and money-making, education, religious controversy, London, the Court, Old Nobility, Women in the 1840s and 50s, fashion, drama, opera, music, art. 314 pages. 6.5 x 2 x 9.5 inches. 1921, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback Frederick A. Stokes, NY 1921-1922. Volume II (of Four Volume Set). Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Blue cloth with bright and sharp gilt 'punch' on front and decoration and titles on spine, stamped border on front, very clean and unmarked, slight wear to corner tips and spine ends; tight, solid and square sewn binding. Frontis illustration onino-skin protected. Illustrations from "Punch" throughout that depict times, people, customs of England at the time so well. Pages are lightly toned, very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. This chronicle of social life in England in the Victorian Age (1837-1901) is drawn in essentials from the pages of "Punch". "Punch' began as a radical and democratic paper, a champion of the poor, the desolate and the oppressed. There is a mixture of jocularity, comedy and intense earnestness in this approach. Many areas of life in mid-nineteenth century England are explored: in volume II, the age on non-intervention, reform, churches, education, inventions and novelties, social life, Court, class distinctions, women, literature, fashion, drama, opera, music, art, sport. 349 pages. 6.5 x 2 x 9.5 inches. 1921, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Size: 0x0x0; Four octavo volumes. First American edition. ix, 314; 349; 378; 392 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt Punch vignette on fornt boards. Fading to spines and gilt, rubbing, hinges cracked on volume II.
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Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Good hardcover, no dust jacket. Volume II ONLY. Prior owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Protective tissue over frontispiece torn. Binding tight. Bumped and rubbed corners; chip and fray at head and heel of spine. Worn spine cloth, darkened and a little torn. Sm 4to. 349pp.
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Very Good. Published circa 1922. British sheets with American title pages. Illustrated with black-and-white cartoons from Punch. The index for the set is in the Fourth Volume. Not ex-library copies. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. All of the volumes have a bookplate on the front inside cover. All of the top edges are dusty and all of the spines have lost their gilt. Volume One's front tissue guard has a tear and the rear board's fore-edge has a small rubbed area. Volume Two has a small hole in the seam between the front cover and the spine as well as white paint in two (less than one inch) areas of the bottom edge of the rear cover. Volumes Three and Four's frontispieces are lacking the tissue guards. Very good condition.; Black-and-white illustrations; 8vo.; ix, 314; 349; 378; 392 pages.
