The 3-volume edition, in original condition, is quite rare; according to Dickens bibliographer John Eckel ... it was acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. This copy was featured on the cover ...

What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth ...

The manuscript has the name Thomas Mitton Esqre stamped on the cover, a friend of Dickens to whom he gave the copy. Mark Twain, a celebrated writer known for books such as The Adventures of ...

Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens’ books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero’s private life. But he considers that Dickens never ...