8vo (192 x 115 mm). 39ppp. (3 stab-holes to gutter margin.) Original pale yellow printed wrappers, publisher's advertisements to back wrapper inside and outside (backstrip perished, slight chipping and soiling); cloth folding case. Provenance: John H. Child (contemporary signature to upper wrapper).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Published as number 14 in De Witt's Acting Plays series, No Thoroughfare, was jointly written by Dickens and Collins and is a stage drama adapted from the Christmas number (1867) of All the Year Round. Eckel, pp. 168-169; Yale/Gimbel B298 (giving the publisher's address as No. 33 Rose Street, and not No. 13 Frankfort Street, as this copy).