Lot 111
Dickens (Sir Henry Fielding) Memories of My Father, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1928; and another, Dickens family copy (2)
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Dickens (Sir Henry Fielding) Memories of My Father, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, dated December 1928, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, spine lightly faded, some soiling to covers, 1928; The Recollections of Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., first edition, ink ownership inscription Henry Charles Dickens to front free endpaper, dated June 1934, 3pp. autograph manuscript draft of the preamble signed by Marie Dickens loosely inserted (with various autograph corrections in pencil and ink), newspaper clipping tipped onto front pastedown, one plate loose, some browning to endpapers and half-title, upper hinge tender, original cloth, a few light marks, 1934, 8vo (2)
⁂ Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933), barrister, who served as a KC and Common Serjeant of London, and last surviving child of Charles Dickens. The second is a family copy belonging to the author's son Henry Charles Dickens. The loosely inserted draft is for Marie Dickens' contribution to the end of the preamble, in which the author's wife reflects upon his legacy and fatal motorcycle accident in December 1933.
Description
Dickens (Sir Henry Fielding) Memories of My Father, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, dated December 1928, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, spine lightly faded, some soiling to covers, 1928; The Recollections of Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., first edition, ink ownership inscription Henry Charles Dickens to front free endpaper, dated June 1934, 3pp. autograph manuscript draft of the preamble signed by Marie Dickens loosely inserted (with various autograph corrections in pencil and ink), newspaper clipping tipped onto front pastedown, one plate loose, some browning to endpapers and half-title, upper hinge tender, original cloth, a few light marks, 1934, 8vo (2)
⁂ Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933), barrister, who served as a KC and Common Serjeant of London, and last surviving child of Charles Dickens. The second is a family copy belonging to the author's son Henry Charles Dickens. The loosely inserted draft is for Marie Dickens' contribution to the end of the preamble, in which the author's wife reflects upon his legacy and fatal motorcycle accident in December 1933.
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