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American Notes For General Circulation
by DICKENS, Charles
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bernh, Tauchnitz Jun, 1842. First Austrian Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Text in English. 12mo. Pp. [iii], viii, [3], 4-310. Bound in original half brown leather over brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped on spine that has five raised bands. Contemporary owner's pencil signatures on front free endpaper. Front hinge starting, but just barely. Sporadic foxing throughout, heavy on preliminaries. Corners a bit worn, but presentable. Published the same year as the first edition (London, October 1842). As with that Chapman and Hall first edition described by Eckels, the first numbered page is not preceded by numerical sense: In the Chapman and Hall edition, a planned introduction by Dickens was struck just prior to printing, and pagination was not changed. Thus, the first numbered page is XVI (being the last page of contents). (In the second printing, the error was corrected.)
In this Leipzig edition, the first numbered page is VIII, which is the second page of "Contents." Preceding pages include the dedicatory page followed by [blank] and the first page of "Contents." Thus, three pages, rather than the seven suggested by pagination. That leads to the supposition that an introduction to this edition was also scrapped.
Synopsis
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His American journey was also an inspiration for his novel Martin Chuzzlewit.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7591
- Title
- American Notes For General Circulation
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Austrian Edition
- Publisher
- Bernh, Tauchnitz Jun
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1842
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