A Christmas Carol
$9,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original rib-grain purple cloth, covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt; handcolored lithographed frontispiece and 3 handcolored lithographed plates after John Leech by P. S. Duval, 4 wood-engraved plates after Leech. Near Fine with lean to binding, fading to cloth heaviest at spine, shallow wear
- Printing: first
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