DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
8° (189 x 122mm). (B1 a little spotted, quire N a little torn at margin.) Original olive green moiré cloth (spine sunfaded). Provenance: Eldon (inscription and bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN THE FIRST BINDING. The shortest of Dickens's novels set in the northern industrial city of "Coketown", and the only novel, besides Great Expectations, to be published without illustrations. It appeared in Household Words, in 20 weekly numbers, 1 April-12 August 1854, and was published in book form on 7 August. Eckel p. 131; Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I, 11.
DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
8° (189 x 122mm). (B1 a little spotted, quire N a little torn at margin.) Original olive green moiré cloth (spine sunfaded). Provenance: Eldon (inscription and bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN THE FIRST BINDING. The shortest of Dickens's novels set in the northern industrial city of "Coketown", and the only novel, besides Great Expectations, to be published without illustrations. It appeared in Household Words, in 20 weekly numbers, 1 April-12 August 1854, and was published in book form on 7 August. Eckel p. 131; Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I, 11.
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