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First edition, first printing, inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper: "Charles love Roald Dahl". Octavo, Publisher's blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, Publisher's dust jacket, profusely illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake, two printed postcards promoting the signing of the work at Harrods loosely inserted. Published by Jonathan Cape (London), 1989.
A fine example with just a very tiny bump to the bottom of the spine and slight ghosting of the Author's signature to front paste-down.
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Illustrated edition. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm), illustrations by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and others, complete with 16 plates, publisher's ads, preface, contents, title page, half-title, list of illustrations, pp. 687.

Bound in full levant crushed morocco, elaborately ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine sections tooled in gilt; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, green silk ribbon. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company (New York), 1944.

A fine and beautifully bound copy.

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens first successful novel which propelled him to becoming England's most well known Author. The Pickwick Papers "main literary value and appeal was formed by its numerous memorable characters...The Pickwick Papers are mostly a series of humorous misadventures, with a bit of satire, that give some insight into the mores of Victorian society. You can witness Dickens here working on a few prototypes that will show up in later novels...you also see his social consciousness manifesting itself"… Read More