A December Vision and Other Thoughtful Writings
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Continuum, 1987. Hardcover, brown cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 160 pages. Index. First Edition. Brown boards in darkly somber pictorial dust-jacket. Essentially a collection of journal articles from "Household Words", as well as one essay from Sketches by Boz, which portray Dickens as a literary muckraker and social critic. Touching on themes as divers as London's criminal haunts, the ragged schools, workhouses and homes for fallen women, the thread which binds these pieces is the authors tireless efforts to support reform on a human scale. Profusely illustrated with contemporary monochrome pictures, many from rare sources. A fine copy in like jacket. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000232
- Title
- A December Vision and Other Thoughtful Writings
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- DICKENS, DICKENSIANA, NOAMZ
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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