DICKENS DAYS in BOSTON - a Record of Daily Events by Payne, Edward F - 1927

Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1927), 274pp, illus., water damage to spine & bottom 2" of cover, affects bottom of frontis & tp, & bottom of last 20 pgs, text is unaffected, rest of pgs are clean & bright.. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Original gilt cloth, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Foxed; name on endpaper; blind stamped book plate on endpaper.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Red hardcover cloth binding with gilt decoration clean square and tight. Minor foxing. 274 pages with index. Last few pages of index uncut - page 269-272 and 273 through two blank endpages would need to be slit along edge to separate but I have left as is. Dustjacket is soiled, tears along edges, interesting that the front dj flap does not tell about this book but is a description of a book called The Happy Pilgrimage by Corra Harris. Back flap describes The Heart of Emerson's Journals edited by Bliss Perry. Not price-clipped. According to front of dj under title: "Mr. Payne, President of the Boston Branch of the Dickens Fellowship, has gathered together from many sources new material about the two memorable visits of Dickens to Boston - first as a fascinating youth and twenty-five years later as a more famous but no less attractive personality. His record of fifty-nine days and nights in Dickens's life combines complete authenticity… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927. Hardcover. Very good condition, spine ends & corners worn . 274p., illus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 274p. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. LACKS THE SLIPCASE. Corners rubbed through; spine label tanned and a bit chafed. Light foxing on endpapers and margins, and some pages uncut. Text unmarked and binding secure. Limited edition; #144 of 150 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with black and white plates.