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Lot 60
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
8vo (188 x 124 mm). Original publisher’s green moiré horizontally ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine sunned, a few splits to lower joint, light chipping to spine ends with minor losses, corneres bumped). Provenance: W. H. Luke (bookseller’s label).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN THE FIRST BINDING. Hard Times, Dickens's tenth novel, was first serialized in Household Words in 1854. One of two novels by Dickens without illustrations, the other being Great Expectations. Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I:11.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois