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Lot 143
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861 [i.e. 1860].
8vo (191 x 125 mm). Half-title; 32-page publisher's advertisement at end dated December 1860. (Upper corner of title-page excised with repair, some light spotting or browning.) Original purple cloth, ruled in blind, gilt-lettered on spine (rebacked, preserving original spine and endpapers). Provenance: Manuscript shelf-mark at foot of spine.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, published on December 15 1860. Dickens initially published this series of seventeen sketches in All the Year Round earlier in 1860.
Property of an Illinois collector