Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol First Edition First Issue
Chapman and Hall
1843
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A first edition, first issue of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
- Charles Dickens (English).
- A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.
- London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.
- Illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.
- Chapter heading reading "Stave I."
- Bound in the publisher's original gilt and blind stamped mauve cloth, back corners square, front cover has a perfect 'D' in 'Dickens', green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.
Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language."
Condition Report
Very GoodInternally fine.
Neat ownership signature to upper edge of title page and gift inscription to recto of frontis.
No previous ownership bookplate.
Internally clean and bright.
Head of spine rubbed with some slight loss.
Inner and outer hinges fine, some staining to upper edge of front cover.
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