An Account of a Wedding Excerpts from the Pickwick Papers

(Philadelphia: Samuel A. Dalton / J.L.N. Smythe Co., 1964).

Price: $25.00

Hardcover. Limited edition, this is number 1087 of thirteen hundred copies printed. Illustrated by Rey Abruzzi. Fine housed in a fine yellow cloth slipcase. Greeting card from Sam Dalton laid in containing Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem.

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Item #425632 An Account of a Wedding Excerpts from the Pickwick Papers. Charles DICKENS.
An Account of a Wedding Excerpts from the Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens
birth name: Charles John Huffman Dickens
born: 2/7/1812
died: 6/9/1870
nationality: Great Britain

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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

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