CHRISTMAS CAROL
by DICKENS
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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PASADENA, California, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. ntroduction by Stephen Leacock. Illustrated by Gordon Ross. (4to) original quarter green cloth-backed patterned paper with printed spine label; top edge stained red; slipcase. No. 205 of 1500 copies designed and printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press. Signed by Ross at the colophon, as issued..
Synopsis
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is a book by English author Charles Dickens, that was first published on 19 December, 1843. with illustrations by John Leech. Dickens called it his "Little Christmas Book". The first of the author's five "Christmas books," (a new literary genre created incidentally) the story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week.
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Details
- Bookseller
- VAGABOND BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PBA 92010
- Title
- CHRISTMAS CAROL
- Author
- DICKENS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- FIRST
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
VAGABOND BOOKS
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PASADENA, California
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Colophon
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....