Buy this book on-line DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) : American Notes. For General CirculationLondon: Chapman and Hall, 1863.
Post 8vo., pp. 204. With a frontispiece by C.Stanfield. Orignal blind-stamped green cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt to spine. Neat armorial blind-stamp to half-title, with a smaller blind-stamp to flyleaf. Minor wear only; near fine. First 'Cheap and Uniform' Edition; the first edition was issued in two volumes. 'Not one of Dickens' books was the subject of so much adverse criticism as the book he wrote after his return from America in 1842.' Cortissoz noted that his frank manners were not pleasing in the United States. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) : American Notes. For General Circulation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Dickens, Charles : American Notes for General CirculationThe Limited Editions Club. Avon, Connecticut. 1975.
Leather backed illustrated boards, spine label. Slip case with decorated spine label. No. 482 of 2000 copies signed by illustrator. Color plates. 272 pages. 6 3/4" x 10". From the Introduction: "American Notes is the account of a love affair that went badly wrong. Charles Dickens travelled to America in January, 1842, with a romantic dream of what he would find in that Land of Liberty; he left six months later a disillusioned, hostile critic of most of what he had seen". In the author's Preface, Dickens notes: "To represent me as viewing America with ill-nature, coldness, or animosity, is merely to do a very foolish thing: which is always a very easy one". Contents include: The Passage Out; Boston; An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System; New York; Philadelphia and its Solitary Prison; A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. A Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat; A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back; etc.. Illustr.: Houlihan Raymond F. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Dickens, Charles : American Notes for General Circulation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. DICKENS, Charles : American Notes for General CirculationChapman & Hall, 1850
First Cheap edition, with a new introduction by Dickens. a very good copy in the original olive green embossed cloth gilt, boards sl. marked, spine dulled and short split head front hinge. scarce in original cloth. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DICKENS, Charles : American Notes for General Circulation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. DICKENS, Charles : American Notes for General CirculationChapman & Hall, 1850
First Cheap edition, with a new introduction by Dickens. a very good copy in the original olive green embossed cloth gilt, boards sl. marked, spine dulled and short split head front hinge. scarce in original cloth. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DICKENS, Charles : American Notes for General Circulation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, first editions, out of print books, livres anciens and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |