The Christmas Books: A Complete Set of First Editions

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Creator

Charles Dickens

Title

The Christmas Books: A Complete Set of First Editions

Coverage

London

Date

1843-1848

Description

A complete set of Dickens’s five Christmas books, all first editions, uniformly bound in red morocco, from the library of William E. Self (1921-2010). Original cloth covers laid down and bound in at the end of each volume.

The set includes: A Christmas Carol (1844, but 1843), The Chimes (1845, but 1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1846, but 1845), The Battle of Life: A Love Story (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848).