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1858 The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp.
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding
The first "reading edition" of this work, the rarest of Dickens's five reading editions.
'Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn' had previously appeared in Dickens's 'Household Works', while 'Mrs. Gamp' is an excerpt from 'Martin Chuzzlewit'.
The 'reading editions', edited by Dickens and sold in uniform green wrappers, were sold at bookshops and in large numbers at Dickens' popular public readings.
With a publisher's advertisement to the rear.
A charming collection of festive tales from Charles Dickens.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper wraps. Significant losses of paper to back strip from a spill burn. Light discolouration to perimeters of front wrap. Scorch mark to head of rear wrap, with fairly significant loss. Faint pencil inscriptions to verso of front wrap. Internally, binding slightly tender. Pages clean and bright, but with scorch mark visible from head of page 89 to head of final leaf.
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