10th Mar, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 25
 

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Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol. In Prose, Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas, Chapman &...

Dickens (Charles)
A Christmas Carol. In Prose, Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas, Chapman & Hall, 1843, first edition, first issue, second state, red and blue title page, blue half title, green endpapers, 'Stave I' on page 1, four hand-coloured plates, original cloth (a very worn copy in poor condition with tape repairs to some margins and press cuttings to endpapers)
[There are many theories about the earliest state of 'A Christmas Carol'. All first edition points given by Smith in Table I (p. 23-4) are present. In Table II (p.25), Smith gives four variant states of the first issue and this copy conforms to the probable second state (see Walter E. Smith, Charles Dicken in the Original Cloth, Pt. Two, 1983)]

Sold for £4,200
Estimated at £500 - £1,000


 

All pages apparently present. 166 pages, four colour images, four b&w images.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 10th Mar, 2021

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