The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
8vo, [viii], 188 pp. with advert leaf, frontispiece, vignette title page, and 15 other in-text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Old subtle repair to backstrip ends, cloth over lower hinge with split. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper.
§ First edition of the fifth and final Christmas book by Dickens in which he returns to his original theme of a misanthrope reformed through supernatural intervention at Christmastime. Smith II:9. All internal flaws noted by Smith present except the high "E" in Extraordinary (p.iv) and battered '1' in p. 166 pagination (both noted by Smith in only some copies). Item #126003
Price: $825.00