The Life of Our Lord

Nice condition copy of "The Life of Our Lord" by CHARLES DICKENS with its original dust jacket. (The jacket is un-clipped with the original $1.75 price intact on the back flap.) 1934 1st edition (stated); Simon and Schuster; New York. With a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript, decorative end papers, black stained page edges on all sides, and a frontispiece portrait of Dickens.

From the dust jacket: "Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord for his own children. He set it down in his own hand, for their eyes - and their eyes alone - during the years from 1846 to 1849, at about the time he was completing David Copperfield. When The Life of Our Lord was finished, Dickens had eight children, the oldest, Charles Jr., having been born in 1837, and the youngest, Henry Fielding, in January 1849, Sydney was two years old, but the others, ranging from twelve to four, were definitely in the articulate and inquisitive age, and to answer their questions about religion and faith, he decided to set down this simple narrative of the life of Christ. For eighty-five years the resulting manuscript was sacredly guarded as a precious family secret. After his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth, died, it fell to Dickens' youngest child, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 Christmas holidays Sir Henry died in London. Sir Henry's widow and children, through a majority decision, assumed the right to permit its publication, and The Life of Our Lord, by Charles Dickens is thus given to the world."

Condition:
The book is in terrific condition - clean both inside and out. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The inside of the book is clean and appears unread with no issues found. The dust is jacket is un-clipped with the original $1.75 price intact on the rear flap; there is a thin, 3/4" stain line on the back cover; small pieces missing at the top of the spine and front cover; small stains along the perimeter. (The dust jacket comes with a clear protective sleeve - not shown.) Overall a very nice copy.