Condition Report
Contact Information
Lot 139
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$100 -
200
Price Realized
$150
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). "To Be Read at Dusk." [In:] The Keepsake. Edited by Miss Power. London: David Bogue, 1852.
8vo (237 x 164 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates "under the superintendence" of Frederick A. Heath. Original publisher's red cloth gilt (some very light wear to extremities).
FIRST EDITION of the first appearance of Dickens's mysterious tale. "To Be Read at Dusk" was first separately published in 1891 by forger Thomas J. Wise with a misleading imprint dated 1852. Gimbel E120.
Property of an Illinois collector