Hunted Down.: [In: All The Year Round, nos. 67 & 68; in US book form: The Lamplighter's Story; Hunted Down; The Detective Police; and other Nouvelettes; in UK book form: Hunted Down: A Story]
by DICKENS, Charles
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: printed by C. Whiting; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers; London: John Camden Hotten,, 1860; 1861; 1870.. Dickens's short story Hunted Down in three of its first appearances: the first UK edition in serial form, the first UK edition in book form, and the first US edition in book form, housed together in a custom-made box. Hunted Down is based on the case of the notorious poisoner Thomas Wainewright, whom Dickens met following his arrest in 1837. Queen's Quorum describes the story as Dickens's "most important contribution to the detective short story... a fascinating tale of realistic detection, still technically rewarding to all students of the genre... the story transforms real life into 'exquisite' Victorian melodrama". Hunted Down first appeared in the New York Ledger in September 1859. It was first published in the UK in All the Year Round in two weekly issues, 4 and 11 August 1860. It was first published in book form in the US by T. B. Peterson in 1861 along with other Dickens stories, and in the UK by John Camden Hotten in 1870 as a stand-alone story. 3 copies (ATYR: 2 numbers unbound; US: original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled and lettered in blind; UK: original wrappers printed in black), housed together in blue cloth solander box. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box, contemporary pencilled signature to each number of All The Year Round. Slight wear to spines of book form copies, All The Year Round numbers a little spotted and leaves loosening. Overall very good. Queen's Quorum pp. 16-17; Eckel p. 198 (Eckel incorrectly gives the date of All the Year Round appearance as April rather than August).
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166944
- Title
- Hunted Down.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: printed by C. Whiting; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers; London: John Camden Hotten,
- Date Published
- 1860; 1861; 1870.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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