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London: Chapman & Hall, 1852 and 1855. THE FIRST AUTHORIZED COLLECTED EDITION of the five famous holiday novels. It features a new preface by Dickens as well. Bound with the 1855 edition of AMERICAN NOTES. AMERICAN NOTES with a frontispiece reproduced from the first edition. CHRISTMAS BOOKS with a frontispiece reproducing John Leech's famous illustration of the dancing Fezziwigs. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter pebbled dark green morocco over marbled boards, the spine with gilt-tooled raised bands forming six gilt framed and decorated compartments, four with central gilt floral tools, two others gilt lettered and ruled, marbled endpapers, flies, and page edges. xiii, 175, [vii], 1-266 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy of these Dickens classics, rare in contemporary binding. THE SCARCE FIRST AUTHORIZED COLLECTED AND SINGLE VOLUME EDITION OF THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF CHARLES DICKENS COMBINED WITH AMERICAN NOTES. The text includes ‘A…

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens, was published in 1848. It follows the story of Professor Redlaw who is haunted by a ghost that offers to erase his memories of sorrow and grief.