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The Last Dickens: A Novel

The Last Dickens: A Novel

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The Last Dickens: A Novel

by PEARL, Matthew

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ISBN 10
1400066565
ISBN 13
9781400066568
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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 1400066565 . Stated first edition. The author imagines intrigue at the offices of the U.S. publisher of the works of Charles Dickens following the author's death in 1870. --- In cream and black paper-covered boards with titling in copper foil to spine. Dust jacket features Sigrid Estrada black & white photographic portrait of the author to back flap. --- With a remainder mark to textblock lower edge, otherwise a bright, tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped jacket with a little creasing to edges, otherwise damage-free.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (6), 386 pages .

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Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow , and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales . Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Bookseller
Bluebird Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
83320
Title
The Last Dickens: A Novel
Author
PEARL, Matthew
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
1400066565
ISBN 13
9781400066568
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2009
Keywords
1400066565

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