[Rarebooks] F/S An Off The Wall Dickens Piece

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration net to all and postpaid @ $75, the 
following;

Dickens, Charles. The Life Of Our Lord, Written For His Children, 1849, 
And Kept As A Precious Secret For Eighty-Five Years. Np: United Feature 
Syndicate, 1934.
Arranged on the pages of a Victorian scrapbook; Quarto; pp; (26); 
illustrated with twelve plates by Gustave Dore; original decorated 
yellow cloth boards lettered in gilt, "Scrapbook". The initial four 
pages are lined with late 19th century clippings, Civil War etc, The 
Dickens' piece has been carefully extracted from the original Syndicate 
Newspaper and beautifully arranged on the pages; with a single chapter 
and the accompanying illustration presented on opposing leaves; The 
scrapbook has a lovely bookseller's tag on the front paste-down; "J. 
Frank Pierce, Dealer In Books, Stationery, Newspapers & Magazines, 138 
Water St. Augusta Me." There are no other identifying marks or ownership 
names;

The first serial rights for North and South America went to United 
Feature Syndicate Inc., whose General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid 
King Features Syndicate, Bell Syndicate, NANA, and NEA. United Features 
promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to a sufficient number of United 
States newspapers to avoid giving first publication to a magazine.It was 
first published, in serial form, in March 1934. In 1934, Simon & 
Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the 
year's biggest bestsellers. In the United Kingdom it was published by 
Associated Newspapers Ltd, also in 1934.

  I stated in the tag line above, "an off-the-wall Dickens piece!

Austin's Antiquarian Books
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Wilmington Vt 05363
802 464-8438
mail at austinsbooks.com
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