A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Illustrated, Facsimile First Edition, 1914

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. New York: H. S. Nichols, 1914. First Facsimile Edition. Octavo. In the publisher's original red cloth boards, blind stamped on front and back, gilt titles and wreath to front and spine. Illustrated.  Presented is the scarce facsimile first edition printing of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol In Prose Being a Ghost Story of Yule Tide, published in 1914 by H. S. Nichols in New York. The book is a true replica of the original 1843 first edition, issued with the same fonts, illustrations, typos, and advertisements as the original. It was also the first facsimile first edition of A Christmas Carol to be printed.   Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season. It was first published in London by Chapman & Hall, on December 18, 1843.  Over six thousand copies sold in the seven days before Christmas of that year and eight stage adaptations were in production within two months of the book’s publication. The