DICKENS Hard Times - Oxford Illustrated Edition 1989 HC

SERIES : Oxford Illustrated Dickens
TITLES : Hard Times for these Times
AUTHOR : Charles Dickens ( 1812 - 1870)
PLACE : New York ( printed in the U.S.A.)
IMPRINT : Oxford University Press
YEAR : ( 1989 )
EDITION : Reprint
ILLUSTRATOR: Fred Walker ( 1840 - 1875 ) and Maurice Greiffenhagen (engraver)
INTRODUCTION : Dingle Foot

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
4 line illustrations; Introduction xx + 299 pages; approx. 4 5/8 " x 71/4 " (12mo); dark mauve boards with dark mauve cloth spine - title in silver on spine; pictorial dust-jacket,with no price on flap as is common with many academic publishers. It may or may not be a quality book club edition. This I cannot determine. A lovely book.

CONDITION :

FINE CONDITION WITH THE FOLLOWING NOTED

BOARDS AND SPINE : Bright and clean - four-square

BINDING : Solid & tight

PAGE EDGES : Clean

END-PAPERS : Clean and unmarked

INTERIOR : Bright and clean

DUST-JACKET : Bright and clean with but mild surface rub - any streaks perceived on jacket are the reflection off the glossy surface -- protected with clear mylar jacket

PROVENANCE: This book comes from the personal library of a Professor Emeritus of English Literature

FROM THE JACKET WRITE - UP:

"Set in Coketown, a fictional town based on the author's observations of Preston, Hard Times is Dicken's classic work about industrial England. G. K. Chesterton wrote of this novel, 'Twenty times we have taken Dickens's hand and it has sometimes been hot with revelry and sometimes weak with weariness; but this time we start a little, for .... we realise we have touched his gauntlet of steel.' Others have seen a more complete vision of humanity in the portrayal of the generous hearts of Sleary the circus owner, and Cissy Jupe - contrasted with the selfishness and harshness of Thomas Gradgrind and other characters who suppress love and imagination."