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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Early American edition of "Sketches by Boz'" - Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People by CHARLES DICKENS. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); T.B. Peterson and Brothers "Uniform Edition of Charles Dickens' Works"; Philadelphia. The book features 21 wonderful full-page illustrations by George Cruikshank. Affixed to the front pastedown is a Charles Dickens "Tribute to Genius" stamp.
Condition:
Clean covers and spine with no stains; edge wear to the boards; wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine; cloth tears at the corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are in excellent condition - clean with no tears or stains; inscription dated 1864 on front end paper...no other writing found; small foxing spot at the outer edge of the first 2 illustrations preceding the title page, and the tissue paper between them. Dickens tribute stamp affixed to the front pastedown. Apart from the spine wear, the book is in very good condition.
Condition:
Clean covers and spine with no stains; edge wear to the boards; wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine; cloth tears at the corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are in excellent condition - clean with no tears or stains; inscription dated 1864 on front end paper...no other writing found; small foxing spot at the outer edge of the first 2 illustrations preceding the title page, and the tissue paper between them. Dickens tribute stamp affixed to the front pastedown. Apart from the spine wear, the book is in very good condition.
Synopsis
Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens's giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention.
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- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2395
- Title
- Sketches by Boz
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T.B. Peterson and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- charles dickens, sketches by boz, the chimes, holly tree inn, a christmas tree, mr pickwicks christmas, great expectations, dickens days in boston, hard times, bleak house, boz, our mutual friend, pickwick papers, christmas carol, cricket hearth, david co
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- Literature / Fiction;
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About the Seller
CraigsClassics
Biblio member since 2018
Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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