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The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

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Sale 242: Fine & Rare Books with a Collection of Charles Dickens (#242) 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #48 The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$212.50

Estimate: $250 - $350

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Title:

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

Author:

Dickens, Charles

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Bradbury & Evans

Date Published:

1846

Description:

[8], 174 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with engravings after D. Maclise, R. Doyle, C. Stanfield, John Leech, & E. Landseer, including steel-engraved frontispiece & added title. 6½x4, original red blindstamped cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. First Edition.

Smith Vol. II, 6.

Condition:

Light rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners, fraying to spine head with short tears along the joints there; front hinge cracking at endpapers, former owner's rubberstamp to front free endpaper, occasional light marginal soiling, else very good, covers bright.

Item#:

115753
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