Charles Dickens 1812-1870 by Pope-Hennessy, Una - 1947

Chatto & Windus, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1945 Chatto & Windus 1st Edition, Good+/NO DJ, no dustjacket, red boards lightly soiled, 3 corners bumped, spine cocked. Pages clean, binding sound, no markings found.

London: The Reprint Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Missing DJ, some marking to boards, corners lightly bumped, front gutter starting, slight water stain to top of reading block, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to leather spine panel. Good reading copy. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 496 pages; Biography of Dickens concentrating primarily on his public and social life based on his letters. .

Chatto & Windus, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1968. Fourth Impression. 476 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tape marks to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Chatto & Windus, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1945. 476 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed.Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Heavy tanning to spine and edges.

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1945. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Red cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. 476 pages. .

Chatto & Windus, 1968. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0701113979

London: Chatto & Windus Limited, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Loosely bound, pink cloth boards with inner hinge split at the title page. Faded spine. Small fluid spotting on cover. Foxing on back end paper. No jacket.

The Reprint Society 1947. Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1945 Chatto & Windus 1st Edition, Very Good/Very Good-minus DJ in Mylar, twice-clipped dustjacket has a half-inch piece missing at head of spine, a few short tears & tiny chips, in Mylar, corners inturned, sound binding, no markings found.

London England: Chatto & Windus, 1945. Hardback. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slightly sunned spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering. No life of Charles Dickens has been written since his collected letters were published by the Nonesuch Press in 1938. These letters not only provide a new biographical material, but throw light on the difficult temperament of a writer who said of himself that his inventive faculty muc be allowed to master his whole existence. Owing to his unusual psychological make-up Charles Dickens has been the subject of several mutually contradictory appreciations. One biographer has seen in him a satiridst and a woman-hater, another a man living his life in a trauma, another an exemplar of applied Christianity, another a neurotic and highly disagreeable sentimentalist, another a social reformer with a tendency towards Marxian views, while to the commonalty the mere name of Dickens conjures up the cosy fireside, the joys of home, glowing hearts… Read More