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DICKENS (CHARLES) American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1842; and 3 others image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1842; and 3 others image 2
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 91

DICKENS (CHARLES)
American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1842; and 3 others

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£300 - £500

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, second issue with p.viii correctly numbered, 6pp. advertisements at end of volume 2, publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, binder's ticket of Leighton & Eeles in volume 1, small blind-stamp of 'Webb, Liverpool' on free endpapers, ownership signature of Vivian Walmesley on title-pages [Smith II.3], Chapman and Hall, 1842; idem, in 3 original parts [extracted from The Works], first cheap edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and preliminary material in part 3, fine in publisher's blue printed wrappers with spines expertly restored, Chapman & Hall, 1850, 8vo (5)

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A very good copy of the second issue of American Notes, together with the rare parts issue of the first cheap edition, with a specially written preface by Dickens. It was one of six works in 48 original parts, issued in 1850 as The Cheap Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens.

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