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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist [with] Uncommercial Traveller; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Great Expectations [with] Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; Dombey and Son; Barnaby Rudge and Edwin Drood; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop [with] Master Humphrey's Clock and Miscellanies; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books [with] Tale of Two Cities and A Message from the Sea; Sketches by "Boz" [with] Hard Times [with] Reprinted Pieces; A Child's History of England Also a Complete Catalogue of Charles Dickens' Writings

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist [with] Uncommercial Traveller; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Great Expectations [with] Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; Dombey and Son; Barnaby Rudge and Edwin Drood; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop [with] Master Humphrey's Clock and Miscellanies; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books [with] Tale of Two Cities and A Message from the Sea; Sketches by "Boz" [with] Hard Times [with] Reprinted Pieces; A Child's History of England Also a Complete Catalogue of Charles Dickens' Writings

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist [with] Uncommercial Traveller; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Great Expectations [with] Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; Dombey and Son; Barnaby Rudge and Edwin Drood; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop [with] Master Humphrey's Clock and Miscellanies; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books [with] Tale of Two Cities and A Message from the Sea; Sketches by "Boz" [with] Hard Times [with] Reprinted Pieces; A Child's History of England Also a Complete Catalogue of Charles Dickens' Writings

by Dickens, Charles

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New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1876. Reprint. Hardcover. Good to Very Good. 14 vol. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 16-766, [2], [1]-5 (pages of publisher's advertisements, [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [5], 6-808, [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3]; [7], viii, [1], 10-821, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [7], 8-833, [1], [1], 2-4, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [7], 8-832, [1]-4, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [5], 6-840, [2]; 8 - [7], 8-800, [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements, [2]; [5], 6-789, [2], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [7], 8-800 [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-824, [1], 2-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [5], 6-799, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-796, [1]-4, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3]; [9], 10-823, [1], [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-803, [3]; 20 - [5], 6-724, [1]-4, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Green cloth with decorations in blind on the boards, gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Blue and purple endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece; volume one with eleven plates; volume two with eleven plates; volume three with eleven plates; volume four with ten plates out of eleven; volume five with eleven plates; volume six with eleven plates; volume seven with eleven plates; volume eight with eleven plates; volume nine with eleven plates; volume ten with eleven plates; volume twelve with eleven plates; volume thirteen with eleven plates; volume fourteen with plates; volume twenty with seven eleven plates. Illustrations from H.K. Browne, John Leech, Marcus Stone, George Cruikshank, Dalziel, G. Cattermole, and S.L. Fildes. An incomplete set of Carleton's illustrated editions of Dickens' works, this set has volumes one through ten, twelve through fourteen, and volume twenty. Volume eight has been neatly repaired, several volumes have leans and a separation between the spine cloth and the backstrip. Two volumes have a dampstain, volume four lacks an illustration listed in the list of plates.

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club  (commonly known as  The Pickwick Papers ) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens.  The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club  catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836.  After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.

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