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A Christmas Carol Paperback - 1982

by Dickens, Charles, Ladybird Books Staff

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  • Title A Christmas Carol
  • Author Dickens, Charles, Ladybird Books Staff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 52
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, England
  • Date June 1982
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 38374866-6
  • ISBN 9780721407456 / 0721407455
  • Ages 03 to 05 years
  • Grade levels P - K
  • Reading level 610
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83001689
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

The full title of Charles Dickens' most famous work is technically A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas. This novella was published on December 19, 1843, and the first edition run of 6000 copies were sold out by Christmas Eve of that year.

The publication of the first edition was fraught with complications, and even though the book was received to positive reviews, profits of the book fell far below Dickens' expectations, and the financial strain caused rifts between Dickens and the original publisher, Chapman & Hall.

First line

Marley was dead, to begin with.

First Edition Identification

The initial publication of A Christmas Carol was challenged by several issues, and those issues are evident in some of the first edition identification notes. The final product of the first edition was printed with a red cloth binding with gilded pages and yellow endpapers. The very first copies were printed with green endpapers, and those copies are exceptionally rare.

The first edition contains four colored illustrations and four black and white illustrations. In the first edition, Stave I is printed with the roman numeral, while later editions spell out the number to be printed as Stave One.

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About the author

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers.

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