The Letters of Charles Dickens 2 Vols
by Hogarth, Georgina [and] Perugini, Kate Dickens [eds.]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1879. Original Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2 vols. bound in original greyish blue cloth and edited by Dickens's sister-in-law and his eldest daughter. Moderate wear to cloth and inner hinges on both volumes cracked. Several signatures in vol. I sprung and page 165/6 lacking lower half of page. A useful reference, priced accordingly. Podeschi D80.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000390
- Title
- The Letters of Charles Dickens 2 Vols
- Author
- Hogarth, Georgina [and] Perugini, Kate Dickens [eds.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- DICKENS, DICKENSIANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens; Alibris;
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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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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
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- Cracked
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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