Author: DICKENS, CHARLES (AUTHOR); SCOLLINS, RICHARD (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: Hard Times for These Times
Description: Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1972. Hardcover. ISBN: 0876360312. 'Hard Times' has been described as a masterpiece and is the shortest major work by Dickens. It was first published in 1854. This deluxe modern reprint edition in slipcase features illustrations (and is signed on limitation page by) Richard Scollins. Number 1813 of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Includes an introduction by Monica Dickens. --- In black leather backed paper-covered boards with Scollins illustrations on front and back. Gilt-stamped titling on spine. Publisher's purple topstain. Slipcase covered in purple papers with the same illustrations as on boards; titling printed on back. --- Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down and w/light chafing to leather spine, else a firm, clean, unmarked copy lacking additional apparent damages. Slipcase with small tears and light rubbing, is otherwise nice. (Any reference to dust jacket is meant to describe the slipcase.); Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; xviii, 218 pages; Signed by Illustrator. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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