American Notes for General Circulation
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868.
Price: $85.00
Softcover. 1868 edition. 12mo. Printed decorated brown wrappers. Pencil owner name and crease on front cover, a little dogeared at the corner, very good.
Item #612785
ISBN: 0140430776
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