Dickens, Is She His Wife?, 1877, first edition of the first American reprint

[DICKENS, CHARLES]

Is She His Wife? Or Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in one Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877

16mo (119 x 80 mm.), second reprint (first American reprint), original brown cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt, some minor spotting and staining

First edition of the first American reprint, in the brown cloth variant, following on from the very rare first English reprint of the late 1860s/early 1870s (see lot 210)

REFERENCE:

Eckel p.159; Gimbel/Podeschi B62

PROVENANCE:

Courtenay F. Wilson, armorial bookplate