A Christmas Carol [signed] [first edition]

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; Physical desc. : 128 p. , [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col. ) ; 21 cm. Subject: Christmas - children's fiction. Misers - children's fiction. Ghosts - children's fiction. Christmas - Juvenile fiction. Fiction in English, 1837-1900 - Texts. Fiction in English, - 1800-1837 - Texts. Novels Summary: Dickens's fable, a popular Christmas book ever since it's first publication in December 1843, tells of how on one Christmas night, the mean old man Scrooge is shown the folly of his ways by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come and by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley.