A Christmas Carol
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company. [no date].
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. Early reprint. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Octavo. 147pp. Light bumping at the spine ends, else fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with with nicks and tears at the edges and interior tape repairs. A nice copy of this illustrated classic in an uncommon jacket.
Item #610007
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