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Probably First Collected Edition, with no volume title page, with Carol dated 1847, Chimes dated 1847 and Cricket dated 1846. The first Wiley and Putnam edition of Cricket may have been simultaneous with the Harper's 1846 edition. Original decorative cloth, gilt page edges. Not in the Calinesca Collection. Good, firmly bound copy, original spine rebacked expertly, foxing to pages.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, greedy, and cold-hearted old miser who is transformed into a kind, generous man after visits by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.