New York: The Penguin Press, 2011. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Gift inscription to the first blank. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (quarter-bound blue on green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9¼” x 6¼” (1.3 kg); (xlvii) 527pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs (on plates and within the text); Maps; ISBN: 978-1-5942-0309-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195789|| Condition:

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Award-winning author Claire Tomalin sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations , David Copperfield , Oliver Twist , and Hard Times . From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer’s craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens’ own pen.

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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 195789
Title: Charles Dickens: A Life
Author: Claire Tomalin
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Gift inscription to the f
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1594203091
ISBN 13: 9781594203091
Publisher: New York: The Penguin Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2011
Keywords: british, english, literary, 19th century literature, writers, authors, novelists, victorian, life story, biographies, literature, first edition books, books by claire tomalin, 978-1-5942-0309-1, memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, journals

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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…

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