first edition
1915 · Chicago
by Neill, John R.; Dickens, Charles
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1915. Fine in very good dust jacket.. First edition thus, John R. Neill's delightful take on the Christmas classic, part of the Children's Red Book Series. Written in only six weeks at a low point in Dickens's career — and printed at his own expense when his publishers didn't want to take on the risk themselves — A CHRISTMAS CAROL Carol revived Dickens's fortunes. The characters of Scrooge and Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, are immediately recognizable even to those who've never read a word of Dickens: "'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all." Les Standiford calls it "the very apotheosis of [Dickens's] (truncated)