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Christmas Stories - from 'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
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About This Item
London: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd Book. Illus. by E G Dalziel, Townley Green & F A Fraser. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Christmas sketches which first appeared in Dickens's periodicals. This undated edition circa 1930-35, printed from one corrected by the author in 1867-68. 703pp illustrated with black and white drawings. Gilt lettering to spine, top edges tinted. Some bumping and fraying to spine and corners with small nick at top of backstrip, otherwise good copy with 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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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014699
- Title
- Christmas Stories - from 'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- E G Dalziel, Townley Green & F A Fraser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Charles Dickens;
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- G
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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