[Rarebooks] FS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS with the first publication of the original "unhappy" ending

[Charles Agvent]

DICKENS, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 
1937. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in green buckram and printed by R. & R. 
Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard 
Shaw. This edition is also bibliographically important in that it is the 
first time Dickens's original "unhappy" ending to this great novel was 
published. This is copy #1267 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon 
Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ticket of 
bookseller Philip Duschnes on the verso of a rear blank. Mild sunning to 
spine with less discoloration than usual. Near Fine in a lightly worn, 
Very Good slipcase. (#016753)        $200.00

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