Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Chapman and Hall
1843
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A second edition copy of the holiday classic A Christmas Carol.
- Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870).
- 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.
- Bound in the original straight grained rose-colored cloth, gilt tile and wreath to spine and front cover, yellow pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.
Regarded as Dickens' most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" (Eckel p. 116) selling more than 6,000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840s, maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated and repressed.
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Very GoodSpine relined.
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