Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol First Edition

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol First Edition - The full title of Charles Dickens most famous work is technically A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol in prose being A Ghost Story of Christmas with illustrations by John Leech. Octavo original cloth 5 volumes.

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol First Edition. This novella was published on December 19 1843 and the first edition run of 6000 copies were sold out by Christmas Eve of that year. A rare first edition of this Charles Dickens novel with even rarer special publishers binding in an original state published by Chapman Hall 1843. First edition first issue of this Christmas classica most exceptional copy with Dickens clipped inscription Charles Dickens with Kind regards tipped onto the title pagewith four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by John Leech the only one of Dickens first editions to contain hand-colored illustrations.

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas commonly known as A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in London by Chapman Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. Bound in the publishers fine original vellum over grey hard boards. First Editions First Printings SIGNED by Charles Dickens on a hand written check laid into the Christmas Carol The Christmas Carol has the First Issue points with text uncorrected Stave I as first chapter heading red and blue title-page dated 1843 and blue half-title.

The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech. 2 Reviews Emerging from Dickenss preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty ignorance and cruelty this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve was first published in 1843 to strong reviews and popular success. A Christmas Carol in Prose.

Steampunk Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol 2014 Hardcover FIRST EDITION. First American edition first printing. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past Present and Yet to Come.

The Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain. The volume published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843 was an immediate success and the initial print run of 6000 copies sold out within a matter of days. Chapman Hall 1843.

Bound in publishers dark blue cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt illustrated w ith four hand-colored lithograph plates and four uncolored. This is a very nice facsimile of the first edition of A Christmas Carol and theyve obviously gone to some lengths to get 1843 edition just right with the same or similar red and gold cover green endpapers gilt-edged pages original illustrations and so on. It is actually a copy of a facsimile from the early 1920s with an introduction by GK Chesterton so its a facsimile of a facsimile.

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