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Dickens Journalism Volume 3: Gone Astray and Other Papers 1851-59: v. 3 OF 4, (Everyman Dickens)
by Dickens, Charles
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- ISBN 10
- 0460877267
- ISBN 13
- 9780460877268
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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1998.* Pub: J.M.Dent .* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Mono illustrated dust wrapper showing Dickens in 1852, photograph by Henry Mayall. Black titles to somewhat faded spine and to face. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £30.00. Slight nick at head of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. Neat gift inscription to ffep, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Several b/w plates and line drawings within text.* Pages: 501 pp. text. xix pp. preface and introduction. xxxii pp. apps and index at rear.* Description: Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. In 1824, his father was imprisoned for debt, so Charles was sent to work in a shoe-dye factory. He later became a clerk in a law firm, a shorthand reporter in the courts, and a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. This is a new volume of the critically acclaimed Dent Uniform Edition of Dicken's Journalism containing works never before collected together. Gone Astray picks up where The Amusements of the People leaves off, after the 1st 18 months of Dicken's contributions to Household Words. This Anthology brings together the best pieces of his journalism from that period - from Radical attacks on slums and factory accidents, to comic sketches of contemporary life..* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with somewhat faded spine to dust jacket, now in clear un-attached protective jacket, reducing it to VG++.* Slater, Michael
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- Title
- Dickens Journalism Volume 3: Gone Astray and Other Papers 1851-59: v. 3 OF 4, (Everyman Dickens)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0460877267
- ISBN 13
- 9780460877268
- Publisher
- J.M.Dent Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 552
- Date Published
- 1998-11-23
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