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The works of Charles Dickens : in 36 volumes

Uniform Title
Works. 1910
Title
The works of Charles Dickens : in 36 volumes.
Edition
Centenary ed.
Published
London : Chapman & Hall ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910-1911.
Physical Description
36 v. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens D140 Set 9: Incomplete: 17 vols. Bookseller's label in one vol.: Brentano's, booksellers & stationers, New York. Original dust jacket on one vol.
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens D140 Set 10: Incomplete: one vol.
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens D140 Set 11: Incomplete: five vols. Later issue, without dates on title pages of three vols., with date of 1917 on two vols.
Notes
Title and edition statement from half title: The centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens in 36 volumes. Imprints and dates from title pages for individuals vols.
Added illustrated title pages for some works.
Imprint on spine: Scribners.
"Christmas books" consists of: A Christmas carol, The chimes, The cricket on the hearth, The battle of life, The haunted man and the ghost's bargain.
"Christmas stories from 'Household words' and 'All the year round' consists of: A Christmas tree, What Christmas is as we grow older, The poor relation's story, The child's story, The schoolboy's story, Nobody's story, The seven poor travellers, The Holly-Tree, The wreck of the Golden Mary, The perils of certain English prisoners, Going into society, The haunted house, A message from the sea, Tom Tiddler's ground, Somebody's luggage, Mrs. Lirrper's lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper's legacy, Doctor Marigold, Mugby Junction, No thoroughfare, The lazy tour of two idle apprentices. Wilkie Collins collaborated on some of these.
Variant and related titles
Christmas books.
Christmas stories from "Household words" and "All the year round".
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Incomplete contents
[1-2] The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
[3-4] The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
[5-6] Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son
[7-8] Barnaby Rudge
[9] Christmas books
[10] Great expectations
[11-12] Our mutual friend
[13-14] Bleak House
[15] Hard times for these times; Hunted down; Holiday romance; George Silverman's explanation
[16] The uncommercial traveller
[17-18] Christmas stories from "Household words" and "All the year round"
[19-20] The old curiosity shop
[21-22] The personal history of David Copperfield.
References
Yale University. Dickens and Dickensiana, D140, 9th-11th sets
Genre/Form
Booksellers' labels (Provenance) - Brentano's.
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