Description

Hardcover, original green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gold. 96 pages. Printed in the Vest-Pocket Series, with their offerings printing in red on end-papers. A short play by Dickens, in collaboration with Mark Lemon, first performed in 1851 and which featured the author and Wilkie Collins in the cast. First edition thus [first American edition], the original edition being published in 1851 and privately printed. A very nice copy of this diminutive book with only the slightest incidental rubbing to cloth. No previous ownership marks, writing or marking. Hinges sound and cloth clean. This copy in green cloth, also issued in red cloth, albeit no priority cited. A very good+ copy of an increasingly scarce title. Podeschi B215; Eckel p. 165.