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18747654London: Chapman and Hall 1874. Thick 8vo 3 volumes illustrated throughout including an engraved frontis in each volume; a near fine set in orig. dec. red cloth gilt. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
187256702London: All the Year Round 26 Wellington Street Strand W.C. and all booksellers and newsmen 1872. 8vo pp. 48; original printed blue wrappers; light edgewear very good. "In 1871 the Christmas Number given up on the commencement of the new series was resumed by Charles Dickens jun. who succeeded his father in the editorship of the All the Year Round." Cook Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens. Tipped in is a 4-page ad for Wilcox and Gibbs sewing machines presented in a short story titled "Ned Rodney's Courtship. A Yankee Trick" by "Mount Arbor." Morgan UCLA and Brown only in OCLC. <br/><br/> [All the Year Round] 26, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., and all booksellers and newsmen unknown books
18649023842London: Chapman & Hall 1864. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original printed wrappers. Edges and extremities are rubbed. Chipped at the binding which is loose but holding. Housed and preserved in a custom velvet lined portfolio. Images available on request. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
185930214Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1859. 1st edition thus BM Extract 12605. Period blue half-leather with blue marbled-paper boards. Bit of binding wear. Usual light foxing. Vol I with 4th leaf partially detached. Withal a VG example of a scarce foreign translation. 2 volumes viii 425 3; 4 407 1 pp. Text in French. 12mo. 18 cm x 11 cm. <br/><br/>From the publisher's series - "Bibliotheque des Meilleurs Romans Etrangers". Contains a specially written 2-page preface by Dickens in French & again in English where he commends the translation and gives his blessing to the publisher for the edition of his works being put before the French public. Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie hardcover books
185337512Philadelphia: Published by Getz Buck & Co 1853. "New Edition Complete." 1st published by Getz Buck the year prior cf Smith AMERICAN pp 32 - 33. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering & Dickensian figures to spine. Slight lean. Modest chipping at spine ends. Plates unusually clean. Gradually diminishing damp line in in first half of lower text block margin. A VG - VG copy. Text double column. Engraved title page. 19 inserted plates after those by Cruikshank. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Published by Getz Buck & Co hardcover books
186336863London 1863. 1st printing. Original buff paper wrappers with front wrapper & spine printed in red blue & black. Slight lean modest wear. Faint pos to top margin of front wrapper. A VG copy. 14 96 10 adverts pp. Text double column. Dickens' piece pp 48 - 61. Dickens' piece illustrated with 6 cuts by Crane. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>A very early illustrative effort by Crane Masse informs us that the first book to have Crane illustrations was just a year prior 1862. unknown books
1870657.3Boston: Roberts Brothers 1870. 1st edition Miller p. 82. Not in Gimbel. Pink printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wear & soiling. Lacks rear wrapper. About VG. 42 pp. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Roberts Brothers unknown books
188428528London: McMillan & Co 1884. 1st edition thus Not in Gimbel though see H133 for the more common earlier edition of 1880 nor in Miller nor listed in the NCBEL. White cloth printed in red & black. Yellow printed eps with adverts. VG binding & text paper yellowed/some foxing as usual. Letts bookseller ticket to top left of front paste-down. 310 8 pp. Text double column. Adverts last 8 pages. Illustrated with maps. 12mo. <br/><br/> McMillan & Co hardcover books
1882288119New York London & Paris: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with sixteen color plates. Title page engraved with printer's device on the front endpaper. Contemporary inscription on the front pastedown in pencil. Minor wear to the joints and some loss to the extremities of the spine and corners of the boards. Pictorial paper covered boards. Very Good binding. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co unknown books
186844900New York: D. Appleton and Company 1868. Slim 12mo 19cm; publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in brown; 1044adspp.; text printed in double columns. Wrappers a bit worn and a hint soiled splitting along bottom two inches of upper cover spine edge contemporary ownership signature to upper cover else Very Good internally sound. Publisher's advertisement for the works of Louisa Muhlbach printed on purple stock tipped to title page. American Notes first published in 1842 is largely based on Dickens's letters to John Forster Daniel Maclise and others. He sailed from Liverpool on January 3 1842 and visited numerous cities in the United States and Canada including Boston New York Philadelphia Richmond St. Louis Montreal and Quebec before returning to England from New York City on June 7. It was an exhausting trip and Dickens was especially tired of the often virulent reactions to his support of international copyright laws. This edition not listed in Gimbel. See HOWES 316 and SABIN 19996 for earlier editions. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
18682311183New York: D. Appleton and Company 1868. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cruikshank George; Leech John; Browne H.K. Minor loss from corners and a few hinges just beginning to weaken. Volumes 2 & 6 are missing the tipped in Library Edition advertisement pictured in photo but the other four have it. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in six volumes. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt titles and decorations with blind-stamped designs on front and rear board. Includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Barnaby Rudge Sketches by Boz; Nicholas Nickleby Martin Chuzzlewit American Notes; Dombey and Son Old Curiosity Shop Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend Little Dorrit Reprinted Pieces; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations Bleak House Pictures from Italy; David Copperfield Christmas Stories A Tale of Two Cities Uncommercial Traveller. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1846TB28750London: Chapman and Hall possibly 1846. Early Reprint. Very good in 3/4 leather calf and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt stamped red and black leather labels in two compartments and gilt tool work in the others. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/4 inches with marbled end sheets. The upper 1/2" of the front joint is parted and the balance of that joint is rubbed as is the rear joint and the edges of the leather at the fore corners of the boards. The leather at the head and tail of the spine is rubbed and worn. The front and rear hinges remain tight and strong. 624 pages of text. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne "Phiz". There is no date on the printed title page. A prior owner has written in pencil the date "1846". This printing shows the transposed pound sign on the sign-post on the vignette title page; and with the fourteen-line errata page seen in the second issue of the first edition. Gimbel/Podeschi A72; Smith 65-67; Eckel p83 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18443545London: Chapman and Hall 1844. First Edition. Full-Leather. Octavo. early issue 624pp. errata engraved frontispiece and title reg. title illustrated by Piz. Bound in full green polished calf all edges marbled with matching endpapers decorative gilt turn-ins expertly rebacked with old spine laid down red morocco spine label gilt; illustrations are very good engraved title and frontis with browning; text is clean and bright; a very good copy. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18806045661880. not signed on 3/4 length portrait of Dickens wearing a dark vest long coat white shirt silk tie and a gold watch chain looking to the left of the camera. Photograph is on the original photographer's mount 2 1/2" x 4" 1/4 with Gurney & Sons Fifth Ave. N.Y. on the lower mount. very good. ca. 1880. With imprint of Gurney Fifth Avenue Cor. 16th St. N.Y. on the verso. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
18509853.1London 1850. 1st volume edition NCBEL III 818. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. VG sq & tight with bright gilt to front board/usual bit of foxing & eps discloration. A nice copy. vii 1 280 pp. Text double column. 8vo. <br/><br/>A monthly news supplement to Dickens' "Household Words" here found in the annual with a Table of Contents. hardcover books
185113449.1London 1851. 1st volume edition NCBEL III 818. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. VG sq & tight with bright gilt to front board/usual bit of foxing & eps discloration. A nice copy. vii 1 280 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>A monthly news supplement to Dickens' "Household Words" here found in the annual with a Table of Contents. hardcover books
185330270New - York: Stringer & Townsend 1853. 1st edition thus Edgar & Vail p. 26; Gimbel B225. Original publisher's buff paper wrappers printed in black. General edgewear with some paper chipping along the spine & with a stain to the top right corner of the front wrapper. Period pos to top margin of front wrapper. Stab holes 3 along spine. Usual bit of foxing & staining. Withal a VG copy of a scarce publication. 47 1 pp. Text double column. Last page blank. 8vo. <br/><br/>" 'The Poor Relation's Story' pp. 3 - 8 and 'The Child's Story' pp 8 - 10 are by Dickens and first appeared in the Christmas number of 'Household Words' for 1852." Edgar & Vail. Stringer & Townsend unknown books
184212065.1Leipzig: Bernh Tauchnitz Jun 1842. 1st Tauchnitz edition with the indicated incorrect wording on p. 67 Todd & Bowden 32. Half brown leather with brown cloth boards; gilt decorative scrollwork & lettering on spine T & B Style x1. Marbled edges. VG sq & tight/spine sunned/light extremity wear/po name stamp on ffep & tp/private library label in upper left corner of rear board/corner leather offset to preliminary & terminal leaves. viii 263 pp colophon. Signed in 8s. 11.5 cm x 15.5 cm. <br/><br/>A pirated publication before the Baron established his subsequent business relationship with Mr Dickens. Cf. Gimbel A69 for a later printing though as is customary still dated the original year of Tauchnitz's publication. Bernh Tauchnitz Jun hardcover books
184740340.2New York: Wiley and Putnam 1847. 1st US edition Gimbel A104; Edgar & Vail p. 24; Smith AMERICAN 7; VanderPoel B1971; Wilkins p. 25. Printed brown paper wrappers. Some modest wear to wrappers. Some foxing to text block. Very Good. Pp 249 - 294 2 blank = 48 pages. Illustrated with 2 plates "Profound cogitation of Captain Cuttle" & "Paul goes home for the holidays." after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" redrawn & engraved on wood by J. W. Orr. 7-3/8" x 5-1/16" <br/><br/>Wiley & Putnam were the first of the US houses to hit the streets with Dickens' new novel beginning with Part I issued October 1846. A quite scarce edition especially in comparison to the UK parts issue which shows up with some regularity. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
186847002Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1868. 1st appearance Edgar & Vail p. 30; NCBEL III 825. Original printed orange wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling. Chipping at spine ends with front wrapper starting to detach lower 2-1/4". Small label affixed to front wrapper. Withal VG. 193 - 256 4 pp. Dickens' story pp. 193 - 200. Adverts last 4 pages. Frontis. Cuts throughout the issue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Ticknor & Fields unknown books
185014697.3London 1850. 1st volume edition. Period green half-sheep binding with green cloth boards. VG some minor scuffing to leather extremities. 2 volumes in 1 vii 1 280; vii 1 280. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>A monthly news supplement to Household Words here found in the annual with a Table of Contents for each year. hardcover books
18617287New York: Carleton 1861. 1st US edition Edgar & Vail p. 29. Black qtr leather with marbled boards. Gd paper starting to yellow & spot/edgewear with paper worn away at edges with board starting to show/front hinge starting/some dampstaining to lower front of first qtr of text block. Ex-lib with bpt & spine labels. 48 pp double column. 8vo. <br/><br/>These three items bound under one roof though each with a separate title page. The above info given for Dickens. Craik's 'Tales' pbd by by Harper & Bros 1857 probably 1st US; Sala's 'Seven Sons' pbd by Burnham out of Boston 1862 again possibly 1st US. Carleton hardcover books
187616296.1Boston: William F Gill & Company 1876. 1st edition thus Gimbel D75; Parrish COLLINS pp 70-71; VanderPoel B460. Oringinal green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & wreath device to front board. VG average wear/cocked/pos name stamp ffep. 2 288 pp. Volume title leaf tipped-in at front. Individual t.p. for each story though with continuous pagination. Illustrated with wood engravings. 12mo. <br/><br/> William F Gill & Company hardcover books
18946131baZ1London: Chapman and Hall 1894. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. English novel; later edition; x 613 pages; 22.2cm; 3/4 leather binding; gilt decorated spine; top edge gilt; 154 illustrations by Halbot K. Browne 1815-82 Phiz; 39 illustrations by George Cattermole 1800-68; 1 illustration by Daniel Maclise 1806-70; bookplate. Chapman and Hall Hardcover books
1870158490New York: Harper & Brothers 1870. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-110 1 2: ads illustrations original buff pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. A hastily compiled memoir rushed into print in England by John Camden Hotten after Dickens' death. The book's "preliminary" is dated "London 29th June 1870." Podeschi H443. Wrappers stained and chipped at edges frontispiece tissue guard present fine clean text very good wrappers. Presents well. #158490 Harper & Brothers unknown books