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Great Expectations Hardcover - 2004
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
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- Title Great Expectations
- Author Charles Dickens
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Illustrated.
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ann Arbor Editions LLC, New York
- Date 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1593081626I4N01
- ISBN 9781593081621 / 1593081626
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 8.86 x 6.36 x 1.57 in (22.50 x 16.15 x 3.99 cm)
- Reading level 1200
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004100825
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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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