Christmas Stories
London: Chapman & Hall, 1913.
Price: $22.00
Hardcover. Reprint. One volume from a set. Very good with a faded spine and some fading on the boards, corners are bumped, an ink notation on the front endpaper, endpapers and half title page have browned.
Item #322126
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