The Adventures of Oliver Twist
New York: The Heritage Club, (1939).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated from drawings and with eight color plates by Barnett Freedman. Topedge with a few small stains, a few page corners miscut not affecting text, binding slightly soiled, spine a bit tanned, still very good with interior bright, lacking the slipcase. *Sandglass* laid in.
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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