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Charles Dickens, 1853
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens, 1853
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
First edition in book form, unopened. Told from the perspective of Esther Summerson, Dickens’s only female narrator, Bleak House has at its center the legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, and “focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering” (ODNB). Gimbel A131.
Octavo. Half-title, etched frontispiece, engraved title page, leaves unopened (superficial cracking to hinges). Original green cloth (fading and spotting to spine); custom box.
Charles Dickens, 1853
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
First edition in book form, unopened. Told from the perspective of Esther Summerson, Dickens’s only female narrator, Bleak House has at its center the legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, and “focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering” (ODNB). Gimbel A131.
Octavo. Half-title, etched frontispiece, engraved title page, leaves unopened (superficial cracking to hinges). Original green cloth (fading and spotting to spine); custom box.
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