Life of Charles Dickens. With Personal Recollections and Anecdotes; Letters by 'Boz,' Never before Published; and Uncollected Papers in Prose and Verse.
by Mackenzie, R. Shelton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1870. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Early Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Philadelphia: Peterson, 1870. Early reprint. 12mo. Green pebble cloth, gilt titles, Dickens portrait in gilt to spine. Card of Macawber laid in. Chocolate endpapers. Frontispiece portrait, facsimile signature. 484, 6 ("The Dickens Controversy"), 36 pp., advertisements. Bumping to edges, fraying top and bottom of spine with small nick along edge. Very good minus..
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- Respectful Exits
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- Title
- Life of Charles Dickens. With Personal Recollections and Anecdotes; Letters by 'Boz,' Never before Published; and Uncollected Papers in Prose and Verse.
- Author
- Mackenzie, R. Shelton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- T. B. Peterson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1870
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Facsimile
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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