Charles Dickens - Christmas Books / Library of Classics

London: Collins Clear-Type Press [no date]. (Hardcover) 494pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, illustrated plates. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a minor stain to the spine, there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper and the bottom corner of page 491 is torn. "An introduction to the works of Charles Dickens is very unnecessary; for, at least in a literary sense, he is one of the great authors to whom strangers can speak without being introduced". Includes The Battle of Life, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man. Publisher series: Collins Pocket Classics 44 & Library of Classics. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. (Christmas Books).