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Lot 128
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$125
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles, editor. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by 'Boz'. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
2 volumes, 8vo (200 x 124 mm). Engraved portrait after J. Raven, and 12 etched plates by and after George Cruikshank. (Some light spotting.) Publisher's pink embossed cloth, spines gilt, uncut (spines faded and slightly leaned, some light spotting); modern cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE bound in pink cloth, and with the last plate having no border. Eckel pp. 140-142; Gimbel B64.
Property of an Illinois collector