INVENTORY #104700
No Thoroughfare
DICKENS, Charles; COLLINS, Wilkie
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Publication Info
- Publisher: Chapman & Hall
- Edition: First Edition
- Date Published: 1867
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, Christmas 1867. 48 p. 25 cm. Blue paper covers. Edges roughened. Former owner's label attached to first page. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, No Thoroughfare also opened as a stage play in December 1867. The publication of the story in All The Year Round represents an early example of commercial merchandising, promoting the story to those who were aware of the stage play and the play to those who had read the book. Note that the chapters of this book are referred to as "acts".