Author: FORSTER, JOHN
Title: The Life of Charles Dickens, in Two Volumes (Volume Two Only) (Everyman's Library #782)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 0460007823. A 1969 reprint of the 1966 revision. Volume 2 only of John Forster's biography of England's famous Charles Dickens, covering the span of his life from 1847 and the publishing of "Dombey and Son," through his death in 1870. Forster's work was edited, with additional notes by A. J. Hoppé, and with endnotes. Includes facsimiles of letters and manuscripts, and sketches of possible depictions of Dombey and of one Dickens's homes. An index to both volumes appears at end of this one. #352 in EL's Biography series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full orange cloth-look paper-covered boards with titling, pale blue endpapers and "Everyman's Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine press in gilt at tail of spine; blue topstain. In white dust jacket with Raymond Piper drawing of Dickens to front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked. Dust jacket with Dent £1.10 sticker to flap, mild soiling and an area of creasing to front panel, else in great shape and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); vi, [2], 486 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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