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HI, YOU ARE PURCHASING ARE 22 VOLUMES OF THE BIBLIOPHILE EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS WORKS. PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1900. VERY RARE BIBLIOPHILE EDITION OF DICKENS WORKS. ILLUSTRATED, MARBLED END-PAPERS, 3/4 LEATHER (ORIGINALLY AT LEAST). BEAUTIFUL SET OF BOOKS IN NEED OF SOME TLC. HERE ARE THE TITLES OF WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION: 1.SKETCHES BY BOZ 2.DAVID COPPERFIELD VOL 1 3.DAVID COPPERFIELD VOL 2 4.A TALE OF TWO CITIES/MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK 5.BARNABY RUDGE VOL 1 6.BARNABY RUDGE VOL 2/THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD 7.GREAT EXPECTATIONS 8.THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP VOL 1 9.THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP VOL 2/HARD TIMES 10.THE POSTHUMOUS PAPER OF PICKWICK CLUB VOL 1 11.THE POSTHUMOUS PAPER OF PICKWICK CLUB VOL 2 12.DOMBEY AND SON VOL 1 13.DOMBEY AND SON VOL 2 14.LITTLE DORRIT VOL 1 15.LITTLE DORRIT VOL 2 16.THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST/HUNTED DOWN 17.BLEAK HOUSE VOL 1 18.BLEAK HOUSE VOL 2 19.CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND STORIES VOL 1 20.CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND STORIES VOL 2 21.THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER/PICTURES FROM ITALY 22.MISCELLANIES/AMERICAN NOTES Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society. Dickens's Novels criticize the injustices of his time, especially the brutal treatment of the poor in a society sharply divided by differences of wealth. But he presents this criticism through the lives of characters that seem to live and breathe. Paradoxically, they often do so by being flamboyantly larger than life: The 20th-century poet and critic T. S. Eliot wrote, "Dickens's characters are real because there is no one like them." Yet though these characters range through the sentimental, grotesque, and humorous, few authors match Dickens's psychological realism and depth.... BOOKS WILL BE SENT WRAPPED IN BUBBLE-WRAP AND BACKER-BOARDS IN EITHER A TYVEK ENVELOPE OR IF OVERSIZED, A STURDY BOX. ALL SETS OF BOOKS ARE SENT PACKED TIGHTLY, LINED WITH BUBBLE-WRAP AND SHIPPED IN A STURDY BOX. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR SOME MORE *GR8DEALS!!!*