Lot 27 , Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol, 1st edition, 8vo, Stave 1 on first page of text, frontispiece,

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol, 1st edition, 8vo, "Stave 1" on first page of text, frontispiece, 3 hand coloured steel plates and 4 woodcuts by John Leech, original cloth (faded), spine bumped and torn at top, about 4cms. down, front inner joint split, Chapman and Hall, 1843

Estimate £100-150

Book appears to be complete. Spine torn towards the top. Spine is also warped and book is lop-sided. Some minor foxing.


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Sold for £4,100