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Christmas Books
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1845881958
- ISBN 13
- 9781845881955
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$6.33$5.07
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About This Item
Stroud, Gloucestershire: Nonsuch Publishing Ltd, 2005 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reissue. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Modern edition of the collection of Christmas Stories, first published in 1851. 541pp illustrated with the original black and white drawings by various artists. Minimal shelfwear, otherwise near fine copy with uncreased spine and no inscriptions..
Synopsis
The first edition of Dicken’s classic work A Christmas Carol, was published in 1843. It was a runaway success, and Dickens went on to write dozens of follow up Christmas tales over the next 25 years. Many of these stories are bundled in collections, titled Christmas Stories or Christmas Books. The first four Christmas books published after the success of A Christmas Carol were: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845), T he Battle of Life: A Love Story (1846), The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time (1848). After the success of these stand-alone books, Dickens began to write and edit special Christmas-themed issues of Household Words, a twopenny journal he launched in 1850. He collaborated with well-known authors, as well as wrote his own stories. You can find multiple bound editions of these early stories from Household Words , such as "What Christmas Is" (1851), "The Poor Relation's Story "(1852), "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853), "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854), "The Holly-Tree Inn" (1855), "A House to Let" (1858), "The Haunted House" (1859), "A Message from the Sea" (1860), and "Somebody's Luggage" (1862).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014212
- Title
- Christmas Books
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reissue
- ISBN 10
- 1845881958
- ISBN 13
- 9781845881955
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Charles Dickens;
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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- Spine
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