Captain Boldheart and Other Stories in A Holiday Romance

New York: Macmillan Company, 1927.

Price: $75.00

Hardcover. First edition of this collection. Bookplate front pastedown, neat owner name on title page, some spotting to the spine, and foxing on the color plates and the facing pages, else very good in very good dustwrapper with applied illustration, and with slight tanning and some splash marks on the spine. Scarce in jacket.

Item #91648

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Item #91648 Captain Boldheart and Other Stories in A Holiday Romance. Charles DICKENS.

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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