Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress.

by Boz. With other Tales and Sketches, from Bentley's Miscellany and The Library of Fiction by Charles Dickens

$350 · Offered by B Street Books

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Soft cover. The first appearance of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist were published in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837. By April of the same year the American publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard, eager for new Dickens material, published a selection of extracts from Bentleys, with pride of place going to the first two chapters of Oliver Twist. Podeschi records that 2000 copies

• Binding: Softcover

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