Charles Dickens In The Original Cloth Part II: The Christmas Book and Selected Secondary Works
by Smith, Walter E
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1983. First Edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 11 3/4" tall by 8" deep containing 95 pages of text. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with several small scuff marks near the lower fore corner of the front panel. Illustrated with photographs of the bindings and title pages of Dicken's first editions. A bibliographical catalogue of the first appearance of his writings in book form in England with photographs of the bindings, title pages, and other relevant data.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32404
- Title
- Charles Dickens In The Original Cloth Part II: The Christmas Book and Selected Secondary Works
- Author
- Smith, Walter E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heritage Book Shop
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1983
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