Bleak House Dickens, Charles Books,British Literature

Illustrations by Robert Ball. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth, slipcase. 846pp. Color frontispiece, 7 full-page color plates, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Spine lightly age tone; slipcase a bit sunned and edgeworn. John T. Winterich introduces this tight, clean, handsome copy of the smaller, mass-produced version of the Limited Editions Club limited edition. This unusual copy of the 1853 fiction bears two fine autograph additions on matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards from the popular 1959 BBC television serial version: At top is RICHARD PEARSON (1918-2011; portrays Inspector Bucket), who signs large and bold in blue fineline and dates it 20 July 1988 at upper right; below this is AUBREY WOODS (1928-2013; portrays Tony Jobling), who signs large and bold in blue ballpoint and dates it July 1981 at upper right. And laid in are the perfect bookmarks: Pearson and Woods' original transmittal envelopes. An appealing, out-of-the-ordinary copy.