[Rarebooks] FS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS with the first publication of Dickens's 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Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard 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 #509 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon 
Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wrinkle on 
spine created when bound for the publisher. Very mild sunning to the 
spine with none of the discoloration often found with this title. About 
Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#017596)        $250.00

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