Description

Hardcover, cloth lettered in gold. 316 pages. 4 page publisher’s catalog appended at rear. First edition. Two bookplates present, one being that of noted Dickens scholar Noel Charles Peyrouton. Moderate wear to head of back-strip and spine age darkened, albeit gold lettering unaffected. Small ring visible on front cover. An interesting biography and literary criticism by the author of “Charles Dickens Originals”, who purports that Dickens was a socialist, unknowingly perchance and not given to the scientific or Marxian ‘isms’ of his day, but a socialist nevertheless. Last page of publisher’s catalog with numbers written in margin. Else a solid, internally clean and unmarked copy. A scarce title in the original edition. Good. Podeschi H377