Apr 03, 2003 - Sale 1965

Sale 1965 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TIPPED INTO A FIRST EDITION DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, to John Thompson, informing him of his travel plans by steamboat and asking him to pick them up at the London Bridge Wharf. 1 page, single 8vo sheet; usual folds minor staining. Tipped into a first edition, early issue, in book form of his The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 8vo, later lovely green morocco gilt by Bayntun. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. Np, 19 August 1845
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"We shall come to London tomorrow by the steamboat which leaves Margate at 10 o'clock. I think she will be at London Bridge Wharf at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Be there waiting for us in good time."