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American Notes, Sketches By Boz and Christmas Books...
by DICKENS Charles 1812-1870
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Cheap Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. STANFIELD C. CRUIKSHANK George. LEECH John.. The Cheap Edition, 1st Series, VG 1850, 1850, 1852. In red half calf, marbled boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, edges bumped and worn, title in gilt to black calf label, joints worn. Internally, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled in red and blue, some light foxing to front and rear blanks. 3 stories each with a plate from the Cheap edition, 1st issue bound in 1, all printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. (179*123 mm). American notes for General Circulation, 1850, frontis by T Bolton, (v-xiii), [1], 175 pp, 1 pl, [1]. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank, Chapman and Hall, 1850, (v-xiv), [2], 303 pp, 1 pl, . Christmas Books, Chapman and Hall, 1852, frontispiece by John Leech, [4], 266 pp, which contains The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Heath, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. A lovely book with a great feel to it. Uncommon! (see Eckel 113, 15, 116, 121, 125, 127 & 131 for info) American notes was written in 1842 upon Dickens's first return from the US. With regard to Sketches by Boz, Dickens stated that his share was only £400 whilst his publisher made 10 times that amount! Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist see ODNB for a full Bio.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003700
- Title
- American Notes, Sketches By Boz and Christmas Books...
- Author
- DICKENS Charles 1812-1870
- Illustrator
- STANFIELD C. CRUIKSHANK George. LEECH John.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cheap Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.
- Date Published
- 1850
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 1.76 lbs
- Keywords
- Dickens Literature Tales Stories Fiction Classics American Notes Sketches Boz Christmas Books
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- Fiction;
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- Edges
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