Antique 1910 Leather Dickens Classic Book, "Hard Times' By Charles Dickens Beautiful Collectible Antique Dickens Book, Gilded Title On Spine, 6" by 4". 384 pages, looks great any wear is minimal. Slipcase shows wear but I will include it with book.

Published by COLLINS CLEAR-TYPE PRESS, LONDON AND GLASGOW, 1910, came with original slipcase stamped BRITAIN and with original foil Britain stamp. This vintage Charles Dickens book, Hard Times, looks great and was well preserved in the original slipcase. The slipcase looks rough with tears at the top, see last page.

This Novel was first published by Dickens in 1854, more about the story:

Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it.[1] Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.[1] Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.

One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical Household Words were low, and it was hoped the novel's publication in instalments would boost circulation – as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era. F. R. Leavis, a great admirer of the book, included it – but not Dickens's work as a whole – as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.