• Publication: Christmas BooksPublication Record # 809284
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Date: 1852-00-00
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Price:
  5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 266
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Webpages: hdl.handle.net
• Notes: Price from publisher's advertisement at rear of book.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4815374
  • Reginald-1: 04325

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• bp • Preface (Christmas Books) • essay by Charles Dickens
• 1 • A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas • [Christmas Books] • (1843) • novella by Charles Dickens (variant of A Christmas Carol)
• 51 • The Chimes: A Goblin Story • [Christmas Books] • novella by Charles Dickens (variant of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In 1844)
• 103 • The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home • [Christmas Books] • (1845) • novella by Charles Dickens
• 157 • The Battle of Life • novella by Charles Dickens
• 209 • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain • [Christmas Books] • (1848) • novella by Charles Dickens