THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB (IMPERIAL EDITION)
by DICKENS, CHARLES
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THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, LONDON. n.d. 000000000000000. Hardcover, 12mo, 624pp. Red cloth boards with Gilt decoration, very slightly bumped and spine very slightly dulled. Gilt top edge, otherwise some very light spotting to edges. Contents clean and tight with all tissue guards complete. Overall Very Good. .
Synopsis
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers ) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836. After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.
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- Bookseller
- Picaresque Books & Galerie Fantoosh
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- 774
- Title
- THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB (IMPERIAL EDITION)
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, LONDON. n.d. 000000000000000
- Keywords
- Fiction Fiction
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About Picaresque Books & Galerie Fantoosh
Book store and Gallery with an eclectic mix of books. A specialist in Scottish Highlands, Illustrated and First edition books, but also Children's, Sporting,Cooking and Craft books. Also the gallery has a small range of modern and antique maps, paintings and prints.
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- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...[more]
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- spine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback....[more]
- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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