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Dickens, Hunted Down, [1870], first English edition, rebound

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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

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200 - 300 GBP

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DICKENS, CHARLES

Hunted Down: A Story...with some account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the Poisoner. London: John Camden Hotten, [1870]


8vo (163 x 104mm.), first English edition, rebound in crushed red morocco gilt, original green wrappers, half-titles and advertisements bound in, top edge gilt, red-coated endpapers, ownership inscription on upper wrapper, minor browning


"Hunted Down" first appeared in the New York Ledger in September 1859 and later in All the Year Round in April 1860. The first book edition, collected with other stories, was issued by T.B. Peterson in Philadelphia in 1861.


REFERENCE:

Eckel p.198

The original green wrappers are bound-in at the end of the volume.