first edition Hardcover
1850 · London
by DICKENS, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Cheap edition, but first edition thus, with a new "Preface to the Cheap Edition" by Dickens. Octavo. 175pp. Yellow endpapers. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt. Bookplate of a noted African-American collector, small nicks and tears, at the crown, foxing mostly on frontispiece and titlepage, very slight wear at the crown, a handsome very good copy. (Inventory #: 557955)