DICKENS, Charles.

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The Battle of Life. First US edition, beating its competitors by a single day - it was published on 26 January 1847, and three rival editions were published on 27 January. This was the copy of the bibliographer Walter Smith, with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page, and is the copy photographed and described in his bibliography of Dickens.The Battle of Life is the fourth of Dickens's Christmas books. It was first published in Britain on 19 December 1846.

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