[Rarebooks] FS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS with Original "Unhappy" Ending
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Thu Jun 9 11:18:38 EDT 2022
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Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard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 #281 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon
Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Small, tasteful
bookplate tipped to verso of front endpaper; Note from the publisher
tipped to rear pastedown. Spine darkened with some marking. Very Good in
a Very Good slipcase with some wear along the open edges.
"We need never be ashamed of our tears." (#020864) $300
https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/020864/charles-dickens/great-expectations
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