Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol - in Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. Leipzig, Bernh. Tauchnits Jun. 1843.
Half calf and paper covered boards. 8to. With spotting throughout. With a preface by the author.
This is the first edition, impression Ab (as identified by Todd and Bowen) with the 'ND' of 'The END' missing from final page. Contains all the identifiers of being a true 1843 first edition: 78 numbered pages, 'Printed by Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun' on final page, coloured frontispiece illustration, 'Edition sanctioned by the Author' and 'Bern. Tauchnitz Jun 1843' on titlepage.
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This continental first edition was printed simultaneous with the London edition, as a special separate volume of Tauchnitz' 'Collection of British Authors' series.
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