LOT 3023
26th July 2023
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LOT 3023
DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. Fourteenth edition, 8vo (163 x 94mm.) Etched hand-coloured frontispiece, half-title, title in red and blue. (Browned to margins, spotting to title, occasional browning and minor soiling.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt wreath to upper cover, g.e. (chipped at top of spine, bumped to extremities, minor stains to covers). Provenance: W.H. Smith & Son Library (embossed stamp to half-title). - And a further four volumes comprising all the 'Christmas Books' (a first edition of 'The Battle of Life', 1846, 8vo, a thirteenth edition of 'The Chimes', 1845, 8vo, a twenty-second edition of 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 1846, 8vo and a first edition of 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', 1848, 8vo) (5).
Hammer price: £550
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