SOLD FOR $1416
The Cricket on the Hearth
By Charles Dickens
Hardcover
Publisher: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846
Book Condition: Used – Very Good to Near Mint. This book is Very Good(+) First edition, second issue (with the advertisement for the “new edition” of Oliver Twist). Hardcover. The third of Dickens’ five Christmas books, and the most popular after A Christmas Carol.
Rebound in handsome crushed green morocco with gilt tooling on cover and spine. Original cloth cover and spine bound into rear. Includes a terrific note from Charles Dickens on note paper from the Office of All the Year Round, a Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens; The note dated Wednesday Twenty fifth, July, 1860.
Dear Sir
I shall be here today until 2 o’clock, and again at a quarter before 11 tomorrow morning.
Faithfully yours
Charles Dickens
A wonderful and scarce copy with a fabulous bonus note.
Suggested estimate $1500-2000
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