Item #152297 DICKENS: positively first appearance. Charles Dickens, F. J. Harvey Darton.

DICKENS: positively first appearance.

A Centenary Review with A Bibliography of Sketches by Boz. Pp. x+146(last blank)+[4](advertisements), frontispiece portrait, plus 4 plates, addendum slip tipped-in before page 143; qr. green cloth with printed paper title label on spine, light green textured papered boards, edges a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip faded, with damp stain at foot; tiny ink stain to fore-edge of half-title page, minor inked correction to text p. 16 (this leaf sometimes replaced with a cancel in other copies - presumably correcting the error), edges of leaves slightly foxed; The Argonaut Press, London, 1933. First edition. *Publisher's Sample copy, annotated at head of title page 'Samples for Travellers' use'. An account of Dickens' first published work, A Dinner at Poplar Walk which appeared in the December 1833 edition of The Monthly Magazine and was later included in Sketches by Boz under the title Mr. Minns and his Cousin. The original version of the text is here reprinted verbatim for the first time. Item #152297

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