Code: 10304
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Charles Dickens' “Christmas Books"
Oxford University Press "Smithsonian Edition" 1987
Full red leather, hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo)
All edges gilt, red satin marker
Housed in the publisher's original red card slipcase
Measures: 19.8 cm tall x 12.8 wide x 3.3 cm deep
Mint condition, as new, never read. Leather boards protected by a mylar jacket. Minor blemishes to the slipcase. Sixty-five illustrations by Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield, etc. Introduction by Eleanor Farjeon. The five Christmas Books are: "A Christmas Carol"; "The Chimes"; "The Cricket on the Hearth"; "The Battle of Life"; "The Haunted Man".
A very fine copy of this beautiful special edition of Dickens' classic "Christmas Books".
