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Lot 133
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[DICKENS, Charles, contributor]. -- OVERS, John. Evenings of a Working Man, being the Occupation of his Scanty Leisure...with a Preface Relative to the Author. London: T.C. Newby, 1844.
8vo (160 x 97 mm). Half-title; 3pp. ads at end, title-page printed in red and blue. (Some minor browning or staining.) Modern half maroon morocco, edges gilt, stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery of Boston.
FIRST EDITION. Overs, a carpenter dying of consumption, wrote to Dickens for help in publishing several poems and verses he composed. A few appeared in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and eventually in this volume, for which Dickens wrote the preface and corrected the proofs. Eckel, pp. 146-147; Gimbel B151.
Property of an Illinois collector