A Wonderful Ghost Story

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First separate book edition. Riviere & Son binding, with original paper covers and publishers' advertisements bound behind the text. Bound in dark green leather, faded slightly on the spine, gilt titles and borders, five raised bands, A.E.G., plum endpapers. Pagination: half-title, full title page, preface, 7-87pp, original cover wrapper, 5 pages ads (Griffin & Farran), original rear cover. 6.75" x 4.25" After including the story of a portrait painter haunted by a ghostly experience in an 1861 issue of All the Year Round, Charles Dickens was surprised to receive a letter from Thomas Heaphy, explaining that he was the artist in question, and had planned to publish his own account. Heaphy's own version was published in a later issue - on October 5th, 1861. N° de ref. del artículo Dickens-30

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