Sketches
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1843. Book. Good. Hardcover. Early Printing. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, rebound in later nineteenth century utilitarian cloth. 503 pages. Title page lists title as SKETCHES with author listed as Charles Dickens [not Boz]. Copyright edition centered on title-page. An early Tauchnitz printing, dated 1843. Containing the earliest productions of Dickens this copy contains the entire contents of the title "Sketches by Boz", originally published in two series. Rebound , cloth rubbed. A tight, sound internally clean copy with strong hinges and no previous ownership marks. Light old damp-stain to lower fore-edge of title and following two leaves [advertisement & contents], else a very clean text block with no writing or foxing. Small dark spot on bottom edge of bulked sheets bleeding onto lower margin on some leaves. A nice early Tauchnitz printing. [N.B. Podeschi lists the Tauchnitz 1843 edition [A14] as having the "Boz" title-page. No priority given. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018134
- Title
- Sketches
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1843
- Keywords
- Fiction, 19th Century English Fiction, Charls Dickens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens;
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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