Dickens the Novelist, Sylvère Monod — 1st Edition

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Dickens the Novelist, Sylvère Monod — 1st Edition

Name: Dickens the Novelist, Sylvère Monod — 1st Edition
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Publication: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1968

Formatting: 8vo, pp. xvi, 512.

Condition Report: Good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth and complete with the pictorial dust jacket, which is preserved in an institutional clear protective sleeve with navy blue cloth-taped borders. The dust jacket spine exhibits faint toning and paper skinning with label residue to the lower foot where an institutional shelf mark was historically placed. The binding remains firm and structurally sound, showing square corners and an intact spine. The text block is robust, retaining its publisher’s terracotta top stain, with faint age-toning and spotting to the untrimmed fore-edge. Minor adhesive offsetting and pale tape shadow are visible to the paste-downs and endpapers. Internally, the leaves are crisp and clean, marred only by a single small circular ink stamp for Liverpool City Libraries to the copyright page, with no other library pockets, barcode inserts, or deaccession stamps present.

Catalogue Note: First edition, first printing in English. Monod’s seminal critical work originally appeared in French as Dickens Romancier (Hachette, 1953) before being substantially revised and translated into English by the author himself for this definitive edition, which features an introduction by American biographer and scholar Edward Wagenknecht. The work includes a frontispiece reproduction of a contemporary portrait of Dickens writing at Gad's Hill Place.

Provenance is attested by the institutional ink stamp of Liverpool City Libraries to the verso of the title page, with the book retaining the protective taped outer jacket covering typical of mid-twentieth-century municipal library conservation.

Original hardback printings from the University of Oklahoma Press in intact dust jackets remain rather uncommon in commerce, particularly within the United Kingdom.

Sylvère Monod’s Dickens the Novelist remains an enduring masterpiece of mid-century Dickensian scholarship. Renowned as one of the pre-eminent translators and French authorities on Charles Dickens, Monod provides a meticulous, chronological examination of the author's craft, artistic maturation, and creative discipline. Moving with scholarly elegance from the episodic exuberance of The Pickwick Papers through to the densely woven, sombre architecture of Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Monod pays unmatched attention to the mechanics of Dickens’s serial construction, manuscript revisions, and stylistic development. An indispensable study for students, bibliophiles, and scholars of Victorian literature.

Book Condition: Good

Book Authors: Sylvère Monod

Book Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Criticism & Essays

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 512

Book Publication Year: 1968

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Book Binding: Hardback

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: Norman, United States

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