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DICKENS, Charles.

Oliver Twist.

“Please, sir, I want some more”: First Edition of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

$8,200.00
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First editions of Dickens's classic second novel. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, mixed issue with "Boz" on title and the "Church" plate in place of the "Fireside" plate, half-titles present in volumes I and II as called for; illustrated with etched frontispieces and twenty-one plates by George Cruikshank. With the original spine cloth bound in at rear of each volume. In near fine condition. An exceptiuonal set.
"Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author’s own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
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