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The Letters of Charles Dickens, The Pilgrim Edition - Volume Three 1842-1843
by Editors: Madeline House,Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0198124740
- ISBN 13
- 9780198124740
- Seller
-
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: The Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1974. This volume presents 772 letters, 264 of them published here for the first time and many others not until now collected. The years covered are 1842 and 1843; and the central subject is inevitably Dickens in relation to America.JanuarytoJune 1842 covers his first visit there, the adulation which greeted him, the alteration in his feeling for the country and the country's for him (much use is made, in the annotation, of American newspaper comment). The results are seen in American Notes and the American chapters of Martin Chuzlewit. Later interests are reflected in A Christmas Carol, published at the end of 1843. In the autumn, hard pressed for money, he decides to remove himself and family to Italy in 1844. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxv, 692 pages, some illustration including a map of Dickens' American travels. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book in a near fine price clipped dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006341
- Title
- The Letters of Charles Dickens, The Pilgrim Edition - Volume Three 1842-1843
- Author
- Editors: Madeline House,Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198124740
- ISBN 13
- 9780198124740
- Publisher
- The Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Charles Dickens ;
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Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
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