Hard Times
- 1854
1854. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
8vo, viii, 352 pp. Publisher's green moiré cloth, pale yellow endpapers. Skillfully rebacked, repairing a some loss to the original backstrip, light sunning to backstrip and board edges, minor thumb-soiling and spots to text block edges, slightly loss in the gutter of p.1/2. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 on half title.
§ First edition in book form in the first issue binding with "Price 5/" at foot of spine and all internal points noted by Smith. A nice copy. Smith I, 11. Dickens's shortest novel, first published in serial form in Household Words in the same year.
8vo, viii, 352 pp. Publisher's green moiré cloth, pale yellow endpapers. Skillfully rebacked, repairing a some loss to the original backstrip, light sunning to backstrip and board edges, minor thumb-soiling and spots to text block edges, slightly loss in the gutter of p.1/2. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 on half title.
§ First edition in book form in the first issue binding with "Price 5/" at foot of spine and all internal points noted by Smith. A nice copy. Smith I, 11. Dickens's shortest novel, first published in serial form in Household Words in the same year.
Details
Title
Hard Times
Author
Dickens, Charles
Condition
Unknown
Date
1854