American Notes for General Circulation
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First printing of the cheap edition, for Dickens first complete works, with a new preface penned by the author and dated June 22, 1850. Olive green blindstamped cloth with elaborately gilt spine. Frontispiece by C Stanfield. Printed in double column format. Fronitispiece badly foxed, else interior quite clean. No name or book plate. Green cloth toned to light brown at edges and backstrip; spine slightly cocked. Overall a nice copy of Dickens recollections of his first American sojourn. First published in 1842, AMERICAN NOTES was a harsh travel narrative, condemning much that Dicken's found wanting in the New World, from the state of rail travel to the rather uncouth habit of spitting. Its reception by American critics was quite unfavorable and it gave rise to many parodies by American author's who took umbrage to its tone and content.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Miscellaneous papers from "The Morning Chronicle", "The Daily News", "The Examiner", "Household Words", "All the Year Round", etc. and Plays and poems.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003077
- Title
- American Notes for General Circulation
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- First Cheap Edition, Travel Literature, Non-Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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