A Christmas Carol [bound with:] Cricket on the Hearth [and:] The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
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- London: Chapman & Hall, 1848
London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition. Very Good. A Christmas Carol is the correct first printing with "Stave I" and the textual points outlined in Smith, with the half-title printed in blue and the title-page printed in red and blue. Complete with the four inserted hand-colored steel engraved plates. The Cricket on the Hearth with the textual points outlined in Smith and the second state of the advertisement for Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain with the points outlined in Smith. Three volumes in one (162 x 100 mm). Complete. Early dark green morocco over dark green marbled boards. Gilt-titled spine in six compartments with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ink gift inscription, dated 1938, to preliminary blank. Margins trimmed a bit short. A Very Good copy.
Dickens' beloved Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge's redemption after being visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve. Scrooge is made to see the dangers and consequences of his miserly ways and awakens the following morning infused with the spirit of Christmas giving. "A tale to make the reader laugh and cry - to open his hands, and open his heart to charity even toward the uncharitable...a dainty dish to set before a King" (contemporary review in London's Athenaeum magazine).
Smith, Part II: 4, 6, 9. Very Good.
Dickens' beloved Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge's redemption after being visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve. Scrooge is made to see the dangers and consequences of his miserly ways and awakens the following morning infused with the spirit of Christmas giving. "A tale to make the reader laugh and cry - to open his hands, and open his heart to charity even toward the uncharitable...a dainty dish to set before a King" (contemporary review in London's Athenaeum magazine).
Smith, Part II: 4, 6, 9. Very Good.
Details
Title
A Christmas Carol [bound with:] Cricket on the Hearth [and:] The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Author
Dickens, Charles
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Chapman & Hall: London
Date
1848
Edition
First edition