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Wantage, The Black Swan Press, 1991; 0 905475 08 9. Hardback. Nr fine/ Dust jacket Very good. x, 430pp with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Protected dust jacket has price intact. .

HBDJ, 1957, 1st Edition THUS, Early ISSUE Reprint,LARGER FORMAT, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, B, RED CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR, book itself is in near fine condition. Clean bright pages bereft of inscription, firm binding, tight square boards, etc. The dust jacket, unclipped & protected by a mylar sleeve, is in very good -condition WITH SMALL CHIPS ON DJ SPINE ENDS. Clean & vibrant. General shelfwear. BACK DJ Mentions few of 500 Authors Thru ZOLA , Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters – the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely newkind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Londion: Richard Bentley, 1838. Half-Leather. First edition, first issue in three volumes with the Boz titlepage and the Fireside plate. Illustrated with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. R ebound in modern dark half green morocco bindings over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spines with leather spine labels. New end-papers and bound with half-title in volume I only, lacks half titl e in volume II, [not called for in volume III.] As usual in rebound copies, does not contain list of illustrations page or publishers csatalog. Internally all textual points for first issue called for by Smith. All frontispeices and titles in volume I and II show moderate foxing. In addition one plate in volume I, and 3 plates in volume III are moderately foxed, with the last two plates in volume III, [including the Fireside plate] heavily foxed. Else all plates and text clean with only sporadic incidental marginal foxing. Overall quite a clean copy, as most are found with plates badly browned . Bindings are as… Read More