Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on the novels.
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Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on the novels.
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Jessie Willcox Smith. Near Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. vii, 259 pp. The spine titles are rubbed. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
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Smith, Jessie Willcox. Very Good. No Dust Jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Later printing. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise square and clean. Full black cloth binding with illustrated full-sized paper title label on front. 259pp. Color plate illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Smith, Jessie Willcox. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
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Jessie Wilcox Smith. Good+ No Jacket. 4to-over 9æ"-12" tall. Hardcover, black cloth with large pictorial paste-down on front cover. 259 pages. Early reprint of this Scribners Classic edition, illustrated with 10 full color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Pictorial end-papers. Front inner hinge cracked and boards and paste-down worn. Rear cover stained and faded. Interior clean and all color plates intact and fine. An acceptable copy of a collectible edition. Fair.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hard Back Second printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. Ten colour plates from paintings by Jessica Willcox Smith. This is a collection edited, arranged and explained by Samuel McChord Crothers, of Charles Dickens most beloved child characters, each one featured in one of 24 chapters. You will meet Charles Dickens himself, Pip, David Copperfield, Wilkins Micawber Junior and His Parents, Oliver Twist, The Jellyby Children, Sissy Jupe, The Cratchetts, Little Nell, The Kenwigses, Jenny Wren, The Dombeys--a wonderful cast of Dicken's children. Binding of black cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles on spine, full color plate on almost the entire front of the book, with gilt border, illustration of Tiny Tim on his father's shoulders, entering a house, with background figures. There are a few small scratches and light scrapes on front illustration. Cloth is mottled on the entire spine and around the edges of the front paste down and back side. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Front corners tips depressed. Inner hinge cracked at pp 84/85. Illustrated endpapers, in brown/gold tones, of a London street scene and The Old Curiosity Shop. The cover lining and title-page decoration designed by Euphame Mallison. Frontis: tissue guarded full colour illustration of David Coppefield and Peggotty by the Parlour Fire. All edges rough cut. Pages and plates very clean, completely free from any markings, no creases, completely intact, pages lightly toned, illustration borders clean and white. 259 pages. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
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Very Good. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Illustrated end papers; interior textblock very clean and tight with a number of uncut pages; bottom edge aged and a little soiled; full-color, front cover pastedown; binding lightly edge worn and corner-bumped; spine and titling moderately faded; 260p.
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Jessie Willcox Smith. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo-Over 7 3/4"-9 3/4 " Tall. Textblock very clean and tight; Binding minimally edge and corner rubbed, else in near perfect condition. 259p.