1846 Charles Dickens 1ed Cricket on the Hearth Christmas Carol FAMOUS

1846 Charles Dickens 1^ed Cricket on the Hearth Christmas Carol FAMOUS

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Beginning with ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published five Christmas books for the holiday season. The third installment in this series is ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ and “it is said to rank (only) second in importance as a Christmas Book” after ‘Carol.’ (Eckel, 119).  This is a valuable and rare first London edition Dickens.

Item number: #27418

Price: $599

DICKENS, Charles

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 174, [2]
  • 14 illustrations throughout (including frontispiece and title page)
• References: Smith II:6; Gimbel A92; Eckel, 119.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Red cloth
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11cm)

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