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Dickens, Charles.

Dickens Readings [spine title].

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 18mo, three quarter green morocco and marbled paper over boards, title and six decorative gilt-stamped compartments at spine, marbled edges. A Christmas Carol: 53 pp. [with] Bardell and Pickwick: 23 pp. [with] Doctor Marigold: 37 pp. [with] Nicholas Nickleby: 45 pp. [with] Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: 18 pp. [with] David Copperfield: 59 pp. [with] Mr. Bob Sawyer’s Party: 21 pp.

Ticknor and Fields published a series of extracts of Dickens’s works, as edited and read by the author on his 1867–1868 tour of America. Included in this volume are A Christmas Carol; Bardell and Pickwick; Doctor Marigold; Bardell and Pickwick [duplicate]; Nicholas Nickleby; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; David Copperfield; and Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party. Extra-illustrated with an original photograph of Dickens seated at a writing desk, inserted between frontispiece and title page of A Christmas Carol. Each title illustrated with a vignette by S. Eytinge, Jr.

CONDITION: Very good, some rubbing at extremities.

Item #4070

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