ANONYMOUS [Henry T. Taverner, John Camden Hotten, etc., attr.]

Charles Dickens. The Story of His Life

New York [Chicago]: Harper & Brothers [Western News Company], 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial wrappers; 110,2pp.; double frontispiece (tissue guards), illus. throughout, text in double columns. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped with a few shallow losses, else Very Good, internally sound.

Presumed remainder issue, retaining the Harper & Brother sheets but bound in the wrappers of the Western News Company (though all publisher's advertisements, including upper cover verso and rear wrapper recto and verso for works published by Harper). This variant not listed in Antefire Imprints nor noted in Gimbel. The work has been attributed to Taverner, Hotten, Joseph Grego, and William Moy Thomas by various sources.

Price: $350.00

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