Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

$1,200 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. 8vo, viii, 352 pp. Publisher's green moiré cloth, pale yellow endpapers. Skillfully rebacked, repairing a some loss to the original backstrip, light sunning to backstrip and board edges, minor thumb-soiling and spots to text block edges, slightly loss in the gutter of p.1/2. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 on half title. § First edition in book form in the first issue binding with Price 5/ at foot of

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