Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Everyday Life and Every-day People
by Dickens, Charles
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839 First thus American "complete " edition - First American edtion of the 1839 Sketches with "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" and "The Pantomime of Life" added. August, 1839. Nineteen full page engravings by J. Yeager of George Cruikshank drawings (missing one "The Rugg's at Ramsgate"). Green embossed cloth 10 1/8" x 6 1/4". Large blindstamped design front and back boards. 268pp. Spine of cover gone, pages at front separating, a few tears, a little foxing, boards worn at edges. Needs to be rebound. Flyleaf missing. Some page edges tattered. Rear free endpage loose and torn. Needs to be rebound..
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11805
- Title
- Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Everyday Life and Every-day People
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1839
- Keywords
- Fiction, Engravings, Cruikshank
- Bookseller catalogs
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