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East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1902. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo, (9 x 6 inches) Three-quarter brown crushed morocco, marbled boards, elaborately gilt spine. #27 of 100 Copies, Signed and Printed on Japan Vellum. In original box with paper labe and the publisher's original glassine paper dust wrapper is laid in (unused, but folded). One of the scarcer Roycroft titles in this form (100 copies, three-quarter levant and signed), and it also appeared both with and without illumined initials, etc. This copy is the non-illumined variant. In the publisher's original box with paper label. Truly fine condition, without flaw. Scarce thus. "High on a Shelf," David Ogle, OB-067-02.

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.

One indication of the first edition of 'A Christmas Carol' is the presence of red and blue title page, a red cloth binding, and yellow endpapers. Additionally, on the verso of the title page, it should be dated 1843 and state 'London: Published for the Author by Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand.'