Home and Social Philosophy; or, Chapters on Every-day Topics. From "Household Words," edited by Charles Dickens. First Series
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1852.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Putnam's Library for the People (also issued in wraps as Number XV in *Putnam's Semi-Monthly Library for Traveler's and the Fireside*). Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Bookplate of Frederic Bronson on the front and (erroneously on the) rear pastedown, else a nice, near fine copy of these selections from *Household Words.*.
Item #286872
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