The Cricket on the Hearth [Margaret Armstrong Trade Binding]
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$ 90.00
192, [2] pp. Original dark olive cloth, gilt titles and decorations with mistletoe motif, designed by Margaret Armstrong. Frontispiece and plates by Frederick Simpson Coburn, decorations in margins. The third, and bestselling, of five Christmas books written by Dickens between 1843 and 1847. It is the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth.