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Dickens Charles

The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Illustrated by C.E. Brock. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST BROCK EDITION

Dent, 1905

184,00 €

Island Books

(Devon, Regno Unito)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1905
Autore
Dickens Charles
Editori
Dent
Soggetto
literature, dickens, charles dickens, christmas books, brock, charles edmund brock
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title in red and black, 7 fine coloured plates and 9 line illustrations in the text, free endpapers faintly browned, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original publisher's binding of ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip patterned and lettered in gilt and green, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy. Crisp copy of the second of Dickens' five 'Christmas Books', first published in 1844. Whilst all five tales have been severally illustrated across the years, the Brock editions of 1905-7 remain among the most colourful and evocative. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Kelly p.160.
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