Author: CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD
Title: The Children of Dickens (Scribner Series of Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. A charming book for children, in which author Samuel McChord Crothers describes the life and adventures of various children characters created by the great English novelist Charles Dickens. Such notable characters as Little Nell, Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Paul Dombey and many others are profiled, along with ten plates bearing color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with Smith illustration of Tiny Tim clinging to Bob Cratchit's back pasted to front cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With scuffing & soiling to cloth, dampstains to gutter area of the first few leaves, partial split at rear hinge (which doesn't affect the soundness of the binding), and discreet Denver bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a stable, sturdy copy. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vi, [2], 260 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
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Title: The Children of Dickens (Scribner Series of Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. A charming book for children, in which author Samuel McChord Crothers describes the life and adventures of various children characters created by the great English novelist Charles Dickens. Such notable characters as Little Nell, Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Paul Dombey and many others are profiled, along with ten plates bearing color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with Smith illustration of Tiny Tim clinging to Bob Cratchit's back pasted to front cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With scuffing & soiling to cloth, dampstains to gutter area of the first few leaves, partial split at rear hinge (which doesn't affect the soundness of the binding), and discreet Denver bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a stable, sturdy copy. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vi, [2], 260 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
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Price: US$ 22.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88151
- Book number: 88151