MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY: A Farce in One Act
by Dickens, Charles
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1877. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black.
First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood printed this edition, was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. This is a volume in the publisher's "Vest Pocket Series," so named for its diminutive size (a second Dickens "comic burletta" was published in this series the same year -- IS SHE HIS WIFE?). This copy is terra-cotta in color; others are green, without priority. It is a bright, near-fine copy (minor rubbing at the tips, one small mark on the fore-edge of the leaves) -- quite uncommon in this condition. Eckel pp 64-5.
First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood printed this edition, was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. This is a volume in the publisher's "Vest Pocket Series," so named for its diminutive size (a second Dickens "comic burletta" was published in this series the same year -- IS SHE HIS WIFE?). This copy is terra-cotta in color; others are green, without priority. It is a bright, near-fine copy (minor rubbing at the tips, one small mark on the fore-edge of the leaves) -- quite uncommon in this condition. Eckel pp 64-5.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10752
- Title
- MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY: A Farce in One Act
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Vest Pocket; Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Drama;
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Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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