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Sketches By Boz (THe Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes, Volume 4)
by DICKENS, CHARLES
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publisher: P F Collier, 1900. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Frontis tissue guarded: A pickpocket in custody, by Boz. Red lettering on verso of tissue guard. Dark red full cloth with blind debossed portrait of Dickens on front, gilt titles to spine, gilt no longer bright. The heel is scuffed, otherwise in remarkably good condition, faint wear to corners. Very clean and unmarked. Sewn binding tight, solid, and square, with endbands. Hinges intact and solid. Internals toned, very clean, no markings of any kind, no tears or chips to pages. Dickens first published book published in 1837--sketches originally published in various London newspapers and periodicals bewtween 1833-1837, to the delight of Londoners. Tales, stories, portraits of life and cultural mores, characters, places in London in early 19th century, often hilarious, from farce to tragedy. 531 pages. 8.25" x 5.75". 1900, P. F. Collier and Son, New York.
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's Inventory #
- 027632
- Title
- Sketches By Boz (THe Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes, Volume 4)
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier and Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Weight
- 0.06 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE CLASSICS VICTORIAN LONDON, ENGLAND
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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