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The Letters of Charles Dickens 1833-1870
by DICKENS Charles Edited By Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: MacMillan, 1893 green buckram with gilt device to upper board and gilt spine titling, light edge wear etc, lightly soiled cloth, small area frayed fore edge of lower board, foxed endpapers, fep inscribed 'Frederick W Gale | July 1895 from Annie | (Crystal Palace)' probably purchased during a visit to it, this work was intended as a complement to Forsters 'Life of Charles Dickens' which the editors of this volume thought was lacking in reproducing Dickens' correspondence, ix 763pp + 4pp adverts (dated 50 9 92), the editors were Dickens' sister-in-law and eldest daughter. revised. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011134
- Title
- The Letters of Charles Dickens 1833-1870
- Author
- DICKENS Charles Edited By Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- revised
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Charles Dickens British Victorian Novelist Literature Fiction Biography Letters Correspondence Frederick W Gale New Zealand
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