Dickens, Charles:

$450 · Offered by William Reese Company

IS SHE HIS WIFE? OR, SOMETHING SINGULAR. A COMIC BURLETTA IN ONE ACT. First U.S. (and first public) edition, preceded by two British printings, one dating from 1837, which is non-extant, and an 1873 printing which Eckel describes as "as scarce as the scarcest of books." The sole copy of the first printing, from which this edition was set up, was reported destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. Dickens's third stage effort.

• Printing: first

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