Great Expectations Paperback -
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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- Title Great Expectations
- Author Dickens, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Publisher Barnes & Noble Inc
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1435167198I4N10
- ISBN 9781435167193
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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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- Children & Juvenile Big Little Books
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- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature English Fiction
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