The Children of Dickens

Hardcover, First Edition 1925 Charles Scribner's Sons 259 pages. Very Good, No DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Minor rubbing to full color illustration (of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim) on front cover - corners lightly bumped. Previous owner bookplate on FFEP. Illustrated endpapers featuring a London scene of the Old Curiosity Shop. 1925 date on the title page and on copyright page. Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. This is a collection, edited, arranged and explained by Samuel Crothers, of Charles Dickens' most beloved child characters; each one featured in one of the 24 chapters. Chapters are: London Once Upon a Time, Dickens Himself, Pip, Pip at Mr. Pumblechook's, David Copperfield, The Little Boy and the Hungry Waiter, Wilkens Micawber Junior and His Parents, On the Road to Dover, Joe the Fat Boy, Oliver Twist, The Jellyby Children, Sissy Jupe, The Child of the Marshalsea, The Cratchits, The Doll's Dressmaker, Little Nell, The Jolly Sandboys, Mrs. Jarley and Her Wax-Works, The Kenwiigses, The Child's Story, The Boy at Todger's, The Dombey Children, How Florence Dombey Was Lost in London, Paul Dombey at Brighton, Jemmy Jackman Lirriper's Story, On the Way to Gretna Green, Our School, Alicia in Wonderland, The Infant Phenomenon and A Christmas Tree. Handsome First Edition lacking the DJ. LOC SSS-09

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Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Year: 1925-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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