Author: DICKENS, Charles
Title: Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with paper spine labels, pictorial paper-over-boards slipcase. xvi, 396pp; xlix, pp. 397-798pp. Color frontispieces, full-page color plates, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Spines ever-so-faintly sunned per usual. This tale of the exploits of a shipping firm owner were first published in 1848. This tight, handsome LEC production features rear colophon noting limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #241) signed boldly by illustrator Pitz. Nice autograph twist to this copy: In 1983 BBC produced a television miniseries version, with British actor JOHN GLOVER (born 1935) playing Paul Dombey Sr. Tipped to inner flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed large and bold by him in black ballpoint, dated by him 17 December 1969 at upper right. Laid in are the prospectus, the "Monthly Letter" and Glover's original transmittal envelope. NEWMAN 274. .

Keywords: British Literature


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