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Great Expectations Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Charles Dickens
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- very good
- Paperback
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- Title Great Expectations
- Author Charles Dickens
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Peterborough Ontario
- Date 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1551111748I4N00
- ISBN 9781551111742 / 1551111748
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
- Reading level 1200
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
From the rear cover
Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the 'autobiography' of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickens's earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained meditation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the book's handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickens's society and to his own life story.
First Edition Identification
Great Expectations by Dickens was first published on 6 July 1861 in London by Chapman and Hall. It is considered not only the rarest and most valuable of Dickens's works, but arguably his greatest. Copies in the original cloth are particularly desirable.
Published in 3 volumes, the first edition of Great Expectations has the original publisher’s violet wavy-grain cloth binding with floral decoration in blind on covers and spines lettered in gilt.
Five impressions of the first edition were printed, each of the latter four with a new edition statement on the title page.
The first edition first issue of Great Expectations’ rarity has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact that the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.
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