American Notes for General Circulation by DICKENS, Charles - 1868

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868. Slim 12mo (19cm); publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in brown; 104,[4](ads)pp.; text printed in double columns. Wrappers a bit worn and a hint soiled, splitting along bottom two inches of upper cover spine edge, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good, internally sound. Publisher's advertisement for the works of Louisa Muhlbach printed on purple stock tipped to title page. American Notes, first published in 1842, is largely based on Dickens's letters to John Forster, Daniel Maclise and others. He sailed from Liverpool on January 3, 1842, and visited numerous cities in the United States and Canada, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Louis, Montreal, and Quebec, before returning to England from New York City on June 7. It was an exhausting trip, and Dickens was especially tired of the often virulent reactions to his support of international copyright laws. This edition not listed in Gimbel. See HOWES 316 and SABIN 19996 for earlier editions.