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Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1927), 274pp, illus., water damage to spine & bottom 2" of cover, affects bottom of frontis & tp, & bottom of last 20 pgs, text is unaffected, rest of pgs are clean & bright.. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Houghton Mifflin and Co.:, 1927. The author was president of the Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship, 274 pages. "The accidental discovery of some unreported incidents in the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens to Boston, in 1842, led to a through search through old newspapers, diaries, letters, reports, magazines, etc., and the attempt to compile a diary of each day and night that Charles Dickens spent in Boston." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, gilt lettering is bright on the spine and cover. Light wear to the spine edges and corners of book. Internally a nice clean, tight copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Original gilt cloth, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Foxed; name on endpaper; blind stamped book plate on endpaper.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Red hardcover cloth binding with gilt decoration clean square and tight. Minor foxing. 274 pages with index. Last few pages of index uncut - page 269-272 and 273 through two blank endpages would need to be slit along edge to separate but I have left as is. Dustjacket is soiled, tears along edges, interesting that the front dj flap does not tell about this book but is a description of a book called The Happy Pilgrimage by Corra Harris. Back flap describes The Heart of Emerson's Journals edited by Bliss Perry. Not price-clipped. According to front of dj under title: "Mr. Payne, President of the Boston Branch of the Dickens Fellowship, has gathered together from many sources new material about the two memorable visits of Dickens to Boston - first as a fascinating youth and twenty-five years later as a more famous but no less attractive personality. His record of fifty-nine days and nights in Dickens's life combines complete authenticity… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Burgundy hardback with gold print on spine; decorative embossing and gold illustration on front. Minor bumping to ends and corners of boards; minimal shelf wear to boards. Bookplate with PO's name on inside front cover; small store sticker on bottom of ffep. Half-title page detached at bottom edge. Inscription with author signature dated March 31, 1929 on half-title page. Pages tight but book will lay open. Pages clean/unmarked. Very light browning to page edges. 274 pages. Only print info stated is Copyright 1927. Very Good or better condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927. Hardcover. Very good condition, spine ends & corners worn . 274p., illus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.. Roy 8vo xi+274 pp. Illus from portraits and photos. Maroon ribbed cloth with gilt cover vignette in blind-stamped decorative setting. Extremities rubbed; a very good, partially unopened copy..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 274p. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. LACKS THE SLIPCASE. Corners rubbed through; spine label tanned and a bit chafed. Light foxing on endpapers and margins, and some pages uncut. Text unmarked and binding secure. Limited edition; #144 of 150 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with black and white plates.