The Holly-Tree
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, (1904).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Introduction by Walter Jerrold. Thirty-one illustrations. Pictorial gray cloth stamped in green, red, blue, white, and black. Gutter cracked, offsetting on endpapers, spine and edges age-toned, small chips in spine cloth effecting some of the title, about very good lacking the dust jacket.
Item #165140
Charles Dickens
birth name: Charles John Huffman Dickens
born: 2/7/1812
died: 6/9/1870
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Random Dickens trivia - the first professional baseball team was the Dolly Vardens, a Philadelphia, PA all-African-American, all-female baseball team formed in 1867 (two years before the Cincinnati Red Stockings). Their name came from a character in the Dickens's novella Barnaby Rudge. The Dolly Vardens folded after a short time due to lack of support.more