Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional newer printing Oxford Illustrated Edition of Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Oxford University Press, 1989. First Printing with no subsequent printing. With the original illustrations.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a convex spine, clean page blocks, binding starting to pull away at the top, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and no price on the front flap, as issued.
Bleak House, Dickens’s most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections–between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and their victims.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
