CHRISTMAS BOOKS [A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man]

first edition

1852 · London

by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Near fine.. First authorized collected edition of Dickens's culture-shaping Christmas novellas — in a handsome Dickens-inspired maroon morocco binding. 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)
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