Dickens, Charles | "I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."

Property from an Important American Collection

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861

3 volumes, 8vo (200 x 123 mm). 32-page publisher's catalogue bound at end of volume III (dated May 1861); some scattered browning and soiling, chiefly marginal. Publisher's violet wavy-grain cloth blocked in blind with foliate panel, spines lettered in gilt, light yellow endpapers; inner hinges of vol. 1 cracked and of vol. 2 starting, spines a bit dulled and cocked, extremities rather worn, bindings likely tightened, clipping on vol. 1 front pastedown lightly offset to presentation note. Purple morocco folding-case.