176 pages with photographs. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This library, carefully assembled over many decades with meticulous attention to detail, condition and association, is one of the most valuable and most important collections of Dickens remaining in private hands. Highly comprehensive in its scope it includes over 25 presentation copies inscribed by the great Victorian author to close friends, unique "reading copies" used by Dickens in his tours and performances, and first editions Unsurpassed for condition and provenance. Condition: Light edge wear else very good. A valuable reference resource for historians, collectors and bibliophiles.

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Title

Sotheby's Charles Dickens the Lawrence Drizen Collection London 24 September 2019

Publisher

Sotheby's, London

Publication Date

2019

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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We are one of the American leaders of out of print chess literature. We also specialize in anthopology, Colonial America, exploration and discovery. We deal in select literature. We consign in our area of specialty and are always interested in buying quality material from single titles to entire collections. Trade offers gladly considered. We have a large selection of rare and collectable chess literature and ephemera. We are exhibitors at both the Texas book fairs in Arlington in November and Austin in January.

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