Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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DICKENS, CHARLES
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848
8vo (165 x 103mm.), first edition, advertisement leaf at the beginning, 17 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title (by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth decorated in blind, upper cover with gold Christmas wreath enclosing gilt lettering, spine lettered and decoratd in gilt, pale yellow-coated endpapers, all edges gilt, preserved in red cloth case and quarter red morocco slipcase
A FINE COPY OF DICKENS'S FINAL"CHRISTMAS" NOVEL, published on 19 December 1848.