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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Peter Harrington

United Kingdom
About Item: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, successors to Carey & Co.,, 1839 [though December 1838]. Oliver in America First US edition of one of the best-known of all works of English fiction, unrestored in the original quarter cloth. Oliver Twist was first serialized in the UK in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. Before serialization was complete, the full novel was issued in the UK in book form in November 1838. The publishing history of the first US edition is complicated. Dickens's works did not have copyright protection in the US, to his irritation, and his novels were subject to rapid competing piracies. Lea and Blanchard made a payment of £50 to Dickens, and £60 to his UK publisher Richard Bentley, in return for advance sheets of Oliver Twist to gain an advantage over other American publishers. From these advance sheets, Lea and Blanchard issued a separate part serialization, and planned a one-volume illustrated edition, which was indeed the first printed in early December 1838.… Read More
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