New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, color paste-on on front cover, t.e.g. (red), fore and bottom edge deckle, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with ten full-page color plates (including frontispiece) from paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith; and pictorial endpapers of The Old Curiosity Shop and title-page decoration by Euphame Mallison. This is a collection, edited, arranged and explained by Samuel Crothers, of Charles Dickens' most beloved child characters; each one featured in one of the 24 chapters. Chapters include: London Once Upon a Time; Dickens Himself; Pip; David Copperfield; Wilkins Micawber Junior; On the Road to Dover; Joe the Fat Boy; Oliver Twist; the Jellyby Childern; Sissy Jupe; The Child of the Marshalsea; The Cratchits; the Doll's Dressmaker; Little Nell; The Kenwigses; The Child's Story; The Boy at Todgers's; The Dombey Children; Jemmy Jackman Lirriper's Story; On the Way to Gretna Green; Our School; Alica in Wonderland; The Infant Phenomenon; and A Christmas Tree.. Front hinge slightly cracked, corners bumped and mildly worn, light wear at head and heel of spine, former owner's bookplate on fep, else near fine. VERY GOOD . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. vi, 259 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12840
Title: THE CHILDREN OF DICKENS
Author: Crothers, Samuel McChord
Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition Thus. 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1925
Keywords: Illustrated Books, Children's Books, Literature;
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