Mightiest pen of all: Signed Charles Dickens book valued at RM1.5mil


A signed early edition of A Tale Of Two Cities sent by Charles Dickens to George Eliot, in which Dickens expresses his “high admiration and regard” for his fellow novelist, has been valued at more than a quarter of a million pounds.

Peter Harrington, a rare bookseller in London, has put a price of £275,000 (RM1.4mil) on the copy of A Tale Of Two Cities, which features Dickens’ signature and the inscription: “To George Eliot. With high admiration and regard. December, 1859.” 

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