DICKENS, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

Item #73255

DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2nd ed. 2 Vols. viii,308; vii,306 pp. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Cloth lightly sunned, some wear to spine ends, small amount of faint scattered foxing, inner hinge of Vol. Two just starting, else very good. Dickens travelled to America in 1842. He wrote about the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, the prison system in Philadelphia, and slavery in the southern states. His negative impressions of the United States were also reflected in the American episodes of his next novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. HOWES D-316.

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