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Easton Press leather edition of "The Short Stories of Charles Dickens," With Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, Selected and introduced by Walter Allen, a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1978. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves with gold tooling around the edges, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition--except for 'minor' imperfection to gilt. Charles Dickens lived from 1812-1870. Stories include: THE BOARDING HOUSE, THE BLOOMSBURY CHRISTENING, MR. MINNS AND HIS COUSIN, NOBODY'S STORY, GOING TINTO SOCIETY, SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE, MRS. LARRIPER'S LODGINGS, MRS. LARRIPER'S LEGAC, DR> MRIGOLD, MUGBY JUNCTION, BIRTHS. MRS. MEEK, OF A SON, THE LAMPLIGHTER, TO BE READ AT DUCK, HUNTED DOWN, GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION, A GAME OF CRIBBAGE, HORATION S{ARKINS PAYS A VISIT, THE BLOOMSBURY CHRISTENING, AN ECENING IN PALL MALL, CORPORAL THEOPHILE IS OBSERVED, THE PICADILLY ARTIST AT WORK, MRS. EDSON ON THE BRINK, JEMMY AND GRAN IN PARIS, LITTLE SOPHY SHRINKS FROM HER FATE, A NEW SOPHY, A NEW CART, POLLY RESCUED BY BARBOX BROTHERS, THE BOY AT MUGBY JUNCTION, TOM GRIG COURTS DESTINY, ALFRED BECKWIRTH REVEALS HIMSELF, and BROTHER GIMBLET PREACHES A SERMON. 432 pages. I offer combined shipping.