A CHRISTMAS CAROL

THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

by

Charles Dickens

a facsimile of the manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library

with the illustrations of John Leech and the text from the first edition.

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Copyright © 1967 by James H. Heineman, Inc.

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This Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in New York by James H. Heineman, Inc., in 1967. This edition is published by special arrangement with James H. Heineman, Inc., 19 Union Square West, New York, N. Y. 10003, publishers of the clothbound edition.

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[This illustration is reproduced in full color on the inside front cover.]