First English Edition. 275pp., grey fine diagonal ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt and black, bevelled boards. Nice copy; bookplate of the Dickens collector Samuel T. Mills and a tipped-in leaf of Dickens references in his hand. The life of America's foremost publisher written annonymously by his widow, with memorial poems by Whittier and Longfellow and the first printing of letters from dozens of authors from both sides of the Atlantic.

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Title: James T. Fields. Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches. With unpublished fragments and tributes from men and women of letters.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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Established 1974 and specializing in pre-1920 English Literary first editions, inscribed and association copies, archives, autographs and ephemera. Since the death of Charles Cox himself in late 2017, the business is being continued by his widow Lucilla Spencer-Phillips. Private premises.

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Charles Cox Rare Books
United Kingdom

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