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THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story

THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story

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THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story

by Dickens, Charles

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About This Item

1846. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt.

First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint. In our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright copy, perhaps near-fine, with the usual minor wear at the spine ends; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked. Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.

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Sumner & Stillman US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
14782
Title
THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
Author
Dickens, Charles
Book Condition
Used
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Date Published
1846
Keywords
Christmas
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Fiction (19th Century);

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About Sumner & Stillman

Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.

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