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The Old Curiosity Shop
by DICKENS, Charles
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- first
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First Edition. First separate issue, first state. In brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind on boards, skilfully rebacked with original spine laid down, titled in gold on spine, all edges marbled; red, blue, and green hair-vein marbled endpapers, corresponding to Smith's primary binding; [iv], [37]-47 80-96 103-306, [1]-223, [224]pp; with numerous in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). A pleasing copy, though rebacked, rubbed at edges, and lightly sunned at spine: Very Good.
With points as listed in Smith, except not lacking punctuation p.220. The Old Curiosity Shop was first issued with Master Humphrey's Clock; this is a later impression, but the first separate issue of the title, in the first state. In a variant binding, with all stamping and endpapers corresponding to Smith's primary binding, but in an unrecorded brown cloth. GIMBEL (PODESCHI) A59. SMITH II: 6A.
With points as listed in Smith, except not lacking punctuation p.220. The Old Curiosity Shop was first issued with Master Humphrey's Clock; this is a later impression, but the first separate issue of the title, in the first state. In a variant binding, with all stamping and endpapers corresponding to Smith's primary binding, but in an unrecorded brown cloth. GIMBEL (PODESCHI) A59. SMITH II: 6A.
Synopsis
The Old Curiosity Shop, what would become Charles Dickens’ fourth novel, was first published in 88 weekly installments in Dickens’ serial, Master Humphrey’s Clock, from April 1840 to February 1841. In a tale that survives the transcendence of time, The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of thirteen-year-old Nell Trent and her grandfather who live in The Old Curiosity Shop, a small antique and gift store. The unnamed grandfather, desperate to leave Nell in good financial standing after his death, loses The Old Curiosity Shop to a gambling problem, forcing him and young Nell to wander the countryside.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54682
- Title
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1841
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Illustrators; Literature Before 1900;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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