The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In

by Charles Dickens

$500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 8vo, viii , 175 pp. Attractively rebound in half maroon morocco, all edges gilt, portions of the original cloth preserved in endpapers. Trivial rubbing to binding, contents clean, a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of William Elliot Baillie and stamp of the Dickens Centenary Testimonial on front endpapers. § First edition, first state of the vignette title page and with the internal flaws noted by Smith II, 5. Complete

• Binding: Leather

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