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1843. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. 8vo, [i-viii], [1]-166, [2, ads] pp. with four hand-colored steel engraved plates including frontispiece. Brown ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Binding cocked,and shelfworn with some small stains to cloth and chips to backstrip, top corner of title page clipped, contents with scattered foxing and offsetting from the colored plates. A good copy. § First edition with the uncorrected text, "Stave 1" as first chapter heading, red and blue title page dated 1843, and with pale yellow endpapers (Smith II, 4). Per Todd (as reprinted in Smith), the cloth is the first impression, second issue, second state, with broken serif on "D" of Dickens.

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.