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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 120

DICKENS (CHARLES)
Hard Times. For These Times, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury & Evans, 1854

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Hard Times. For These Times, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, publisher's first binding of olive green moiré horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers with outer line and inner ornamental blind-stamped borders, gilt-lettered spine with price 5/- and decoration in blind, light yellow endpapers, covers spotted, spine bumped and with wear affecting part of title lettering [Eckel, p.131; Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I:11], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1854

Footnotes

Along with Great Expectations, this was the only first edition of a Dickens novel to be issued without illustrations. This internally clean copy has nine of Smith's eleven flaws in uncorrected state, and only those on pp.122 and 231 in corrected state.

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