Dickens, Charles. Address Delivered at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, on the 27th September, 1869. Josiah Allen, Birmingham, 1869.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition.Octavo. Original wrappers lacking. Good (small stain lower back and bottom edges pages 9-15; small chips right front corner). 15 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. [Speech.] Address delivered at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, on the 27th September, 1869. By Charles Dickens, Esquire, President.. (Birmingham: printed by Josiah Allen, jun.) 1869, 1869.

Price: US$425.13 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Orig. pale green printed wrappers; sl. spotted. A warm address on the Institute and its work: 'My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in The People governed is, on the whole, illimitable'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom