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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A previous edition published 1994. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Rear board shows stains which bled through to the verso of the rear jacket; does not effect text block. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condtion; not price clipped - there is no printed price on flap. Size approx 10" talll x 6 3/8" wide x 2 1/4" thick; 818 numbered pages. * From the flap, ". . . includes entries for more than 6,500 of the most famous and influential characters from novels, plays and poetry in English. . . . Entertaining and informative essays on such topics as 'The Detective in Fiction', 'Literary Drinkers' and 'The Characters of Charles Dickens.' " "Easy-to-use author / title index, including concise author biographies." "Fully cross-referenced. . . Unsurpassed in scope and detail.".

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Revised and expanded, this new edition contains over 6,500 entries providing a guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English. New features?.