8vo. xiii, [1], 175pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-ruled half-calf on marbled boards, richly tooled in gilt to spine, with contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned, with bumping to corners. With a terminal leaf of pencilled notes, transcribing an English translation of Heinrich Heinr's Für die Mouche (1856). Spotting to initial and terminal leaves.

The first cheap edition, originally published in three volumes in 1842. The account of Dickens' experience in America was highly controversial, with Dickens bibliographer John Eckel noting that 'Not one of Dickens' books was the subject of so much adverse critcism as the book he wrote after his return from America in 1842'.