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Dickens raises funds for hospital for lunatics

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Heading:
Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Place Published: London
Publisher:St. Luke's Hospital
Date Published: 1860
Description:

20 pages. (12mo), original printed wrappers in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. First Edition, second issue.

A pamphlet issued to help raise funds for St. Luke‘s Hospital for Lunatics, which reprints a sketch about St. Luke‘s by Dickens from Household Words and another piece about the hospital from an unsigned article in the Times.

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Creased in the middle, otherwise fine.

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Dickens raises funds for hospital for lunatics

Name: Dickens raises funds for hospital for lunatics
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Price: 750 USD
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