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DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities . Vol. I, no. 1-Vol. II., no. 31. -- COLLINS, Wilkie. The Woman in White . Vol. II, no. 32-Vol. III, no.70. In: All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Edited by Charles Dickens Together Vol. I, no.1 - Vol. III, no. 71. London; Printed by C. Whiting, 30 April 1859-1 September 1860.
DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities . Vol. I, no. 1-Vol. II., no. 31. -- COLLINS, Wilkie. The Woman in White . Vol. II, no. 32-Vol. III, no.70. In: All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Edited by Charles Dickens Together Vol. I, no.1 - Vol. III, no. 71. London; Printed by C. Whiting, 30 April 1859-1 September 1860. 71 original weekly parts, 8 o (244 x 160 mm). Title and contents included in nos. 26 and 50. (Small tear to 48/4 crossing a few lines of text.) Original self-wrappers, nos. 67 and 68 partly unopened (front wrapper of no. 1 mostly detached, otherwise fine); blue cloth folding case. Provenance : Kenyon Starling. A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST APPEARANCES of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens numbers 1-31, and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, numbers 32-71. It also includes a number of sketches by Dickens which afterwards appeared in book form as The Uncommercial Traveller . The following ads are laid-in to the following numbers: ad for the discontinuance of Household Words on yellow paper in no.4; ad for English Woman's Domestic Magazine (4pp.) in no.56; Railway Tracts. No. 11 "I Have My Ticket" (4pp.) in no.58. VERY SCARCE IN UNBOUND ORIGINAL PARTS: according to American Book Prices Current , the last copy in unbound parts to appear at auction was the Slater copy, sold Christie's New York, 12 February 1981, lot 291. Eckel, pp.194-95; Yale/Gimbel E9. (71)