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186858251868. Signed "Charles Dickens with a large flourish Washington D.C. Seventh February 1868." Large oval portrait photograph measures 13 inches by 13 inches. Matted in a walnut frame which measures 24 inches by 27 inches. On his Washington tour Dickens met President Andrew Johnson and signed this photograph on the date of that meeting February 7 which also happened to be Dickens' birthday. He discussed in a letter to his friend and agent John Foster regarding that day "This scrambling scribblement is resumed this morning because I have just seen the President: who had sent to me very courteously asking me to make my own appointment. He is a man with a remarkable face." From the Library of The Cosmos Club in Washington D.C. Portrait photographs of this size signed by Dickens are exceptionally rare especially with such noted provenance. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. unknown books
18431701004Chapman & Hall London 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First editions of all five Christmas books in extraordinary condition featuring a near fine and unrestored copy of the true first issue of The Christmas Carol with "Stave I" on p. 1 and with the text entirely uncorrected. With all known first issue points: title page in blue and red dated 1843 chalky green endpapers 14-15mm between the gilt wreath and the left margin blind-stamping on the front cover a perfect "D" in "Dickens" in the front cover wreath. According to the most recent exhaustive study Todd's analyzing the front cover this copy is of the earliest state of the first issue. Near fine condition and rare as such. Other books also in near fine or fine condition. Cricket has second state of ad leaf in rear and Battle of Life has the 4th state of the title page. Housed in a custom-made collector's case. Chapman & Hall, London hardcover books
186833231.1London - Paris - New York 1868. 1st edition thus Gimbel B295 i.e. with the lithographic plate reproducing Dicken's letter. This copy SIGNED by Dickens in blue ink on the original ffep "Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens flourish". We posit it was signed by Dickens during his 1868 tour of America. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG. Original publisher's green cloth binding bound-in at rear. Spine sunned to a mellow golden tan. A handsome VG copy. 5 v 141 1 pp. Binder's blanks at front & rear. Frontis of Menken. Facsimile of Dickens' "letter" which is actually comprised of portions from 2 letters Dickens sent Menken cf. LETTERS v. 11. Cuts as head- tailpieces. Sq 12mo. 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Dickens knew Menken through her 1864 performances at Astley's during which time she was accepted by the London Bohemian crowd holding 'literary salons' at her suite at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Her aspirations toward literature resulted in this modest volume of poetry which she decicated to "Charles Dickens" a gesture the Inimitable accepted with 'great pleasure'. <br /> <br />This particular copy comes from a prominent Detroit businessman's collection gathered in the 1920s and only now 100 years later coming onto the market. hardcover books
1868740301868. Large oval portrait photograph measures 20 inches by 16 inches. Matted in a contemporary frame which measures 25.5 inches by 29.5 inches. Signed "Charles Dickens with a large flourish Boston Sixth March 1868." In 1867 Charles Dickens began his second American reading tour at Boston's Tremont Temple where an enthusiastic audience delighted in some of his most notable works members of the audience included legendary literary stars such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Dickens was in declining health he embarked on an ambitious travel schedule across the United States. Dickens returned to Boston once more before concluding his U.S. tour in New York City. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston on November 19 1867 the celebrated English author spent several days at the Parker House hotel recuperating from the voyage. As conscientious a performer as he was a writer Dickens had prepared diligently for his performances redrafting and memorizing key passages from his books especially for these engagements. He used a book only as a prop; he was so familiar with the material that he could improvise with ease. However during his 1867-1868 tour he was plagued with Flu-like symptoms insomnia and an inflammation of his foot which forced him to walk with a cane. During his last tours in 1868 Dickens confined much of his performances to the New England area. Dickens was grateful for the income he desperately needed from his readings which generated $140000 close to $2000000 today; but he longed for home. On April 8 1868 Dickens gave the last performance of the tour. Prolonged applause followed the reading. He closed by telling the audience "In this brief life of ours it is sad to do almost anything for the last time. Ladies and gentlemen I beg most earnestly most gratefully and most affectionately to bid you each and all farewell." He died two years later having written 14 novels several of which are considered classics of English literature. A desirable piece of Victorian literary history. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. unknown books
1861140940580London: Chapman and Hall 1861. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in the original weekly numbers. 36 issues comprising nos. 84-119. Unbound self-wrappers as issued by the publisher sold at 2d. These issues would be collected in fours and bound in blue wrappers as nine parts in a slightly more common presumably later binding state. Near Fine generally clean and bright with a few stains to no. 84 age-toning to certain issues stain in nos. 115-116 mild ripple to leaves occasional minor creases or fore-edge tears. Issue 119 spine worn. Presented in green cloth-covered clamshell box with paper spine label.<br /> <br /> A complete collection of the serialized novel Great Expectations. Dickens was editing the journal All the Year Round but circulation was flagging. He realized that if he wanted something done right he'd have to do it himself so he ran his own novel to get more readers. Especially rare in such nice condition. Chapman and Hall unknown books
19003597London: Merrill & Baker 1900. First Thus. Edition des Bibliophiles. Limited to twenty-six lettered and registered copies this copy being Letter "H" Printed for Sadie Belle Lufkin. Thirty-two octavo volumes 227 x 154 mm. Contemporary blue crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt in a floral design within a gilt single fillet border spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands gilt-dotted board edges turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt within an outer border of a gilt-dotted rule and two gilt fillets red calf doublures red watered silk liners top edge gilt others uncut. Partially unopened.<br/><br/>Elaborately illustrated with frontispieces and plates including photogravures etchings photo-etchings from the original illustrations by Frederick Barnard Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" George Cattermole George Cruikshank Dalziel F.O.C. Darley Luke Fildes John Gilbert Edwin Landseer John Leech Daniel Maclise J. Mahoney F.W. Pailthorpe Robert Seymour Stanfield F. Stone Marcus Stone and others including fifty original watercolor drawings "Aquarelles" by "Kyd" Joseph Clayton Clarke of Dickens's characters. Descriptive tissue guards.<br/><br/>Few writers in English have generated such sustained fame as Charles Dickens. A prolific novelist interested how science technology economics and religion shaped human experience in the changing modern world he deftly combined good natured humor and biting satire. The present is a near comprehensive gathering of his best loved works. Although the spines are uniformly faded to green and a few leaves are poorly opened this set is in a spectacular binding. Merrill & Baker unknown books
18611602012Chapman and Hall London 1861. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition fifth issue. Three volumes including the publisher's catalog dated August 1861 at the rear of Volume III. Bound in the publisher's original ribbed purple cloth binding with ruling and decorations in blind to boards lettering and decorations in gilt to spine. This copy has the majority of the first issue points with only a few of the corrections that were made after the first issue. Overall a clean and attractive set extremely rare in the unsophisticated publisher's cloth. The first issue of the first edition book published on July 6 1861 was followed by four subsequent issues of the same edition published on August 5 August 17 September 21 and October 30 of the same year. Smith notes that "These first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale In all five issues the same misprints persist." The first issue which included a print run of 1000 copies was "almost entirely taken up by the libraries" leaving only a few hundred copies for private ownership. Overall a beautiful unrestored uniform set. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Chapman and Hall, London hardcover books
04558London: Chapman & Hall 1843. A Superb First Edition Set of The Charles Dickens Christmas Books<br/>Beautifully Bound by Root & Son ca. 1920<br/><br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. ROOT & SON Binders. The Christmas Books. London: Various 1843-1848.<br/><br/>Comprising:<br/><br/>A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall 1843. <br/><br/>First edition first issue with "Stave I" reading. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 166 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Half-title printed in blue title-page printed in red and blue four hand-colored plates and intertextual illustrations. Original endpapers bound in.<br/><br/>And:<br/><br/>The Chimes: A Goblin Story or some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and A New Year In. London: Chapman and Hall 1845.<br/><br/>First edition second state of the engraved title. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 175 1 colophon pp. Complete with ad for A Christmas Carol on verso of the first leaf. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/><br/>And:<br/><br/>The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans 1846.<br/><br/>First edition. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 174 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at end. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/> <br/>And:<br/> <br/>The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846.<br/><br/>First edition fourth issue with Cupid added to the scroll but without publisher's imprint on engraved title. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 1-2 sectional title 3-175 1 colophon 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/> <br/>And:<br/> <br/>The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury &<br/>Evans 1848.<br/><br/>First edition. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 188 pp. Complete with ads and half-title. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/><br/>Uniformly bound by Root & Son ca. 1920 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins. Full blue crushed levant morocco covers with three-line gilt border surrounding a large holly leaf inlaid in green morocco and detailed in gilt with six inlaid red morocco berries on stem. Four similar but smaller corner-pieces also inlaid in green and red morocco. Spines with five raised bands similarly decorated with inlaid green and red morocco holly leaves and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins pale blue liners and endleaves. all edges gilt. Each volume with the original tan and brick red cloth covers and spines bound in at end. Spines very slightly and uniformly darkened. Some scattered light foxing otherwise a very fine set of arguably the most influential and important nineteenth century tales of the Christmas season. Housed in a felt-lined quarter black morocco clamshell case smooth curved spine lettered in gilt.<br/>  <br/>Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843 Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy . in order to strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes. He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s.<br/><br/>A Christmas Carol was an instant success reportedly selling all 6000 copies of the first edition on the first day of publication and Dickens went on to write four more small festive books for each successive Christmas.<br/><br/>The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out uprooted of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz. There is a record in the June 10 1905 issue of The Academy "Esteemed Editions of various Authors some scarce all in new extra leather bindings. W. Root & Son 29-30 Eagle Street Red Lion Street Holborn W.C." Root & Son are also recorded at the same address in The Literary Year-Book 1909 thirteenth annual volume. The British Library have five examples of bindings by Root & Son. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 unknown books
1859107910Chapman and Hall 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Chapman and Hall 1859. Beautiful First edition First Issue in the Original Red Cloth DICKENS Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first issue in the primary binding. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 9/16 inches; 222 x 141 mm. i-vii viii ix-x 1 2-254; Sixteen inserted plates including frontispiece and vignette title by Browne 'Phiz'. All eight of Smith's internal flaws necessary for the first issue present including page 213 misnumbered 113. Publishers primary binding of deep red sand-grain cloth covers stamped in blind spine lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Cloth on boards is still a rich red. Housed in a full leather decorated red morocco clamshell case. An excellent copy. A Tale of Two Cities was first serialized in Dickenss periodical All the Year Round from April 30-November 26 1859. Its appearance in monthly parts July-December 1859 and book form mark Dickenss return to his old publishers Chapman and Hall after a long stay with Bradbury and Evans. The extremely large audience for the novel in All the Year Round however left less than the usual demand for the parts issue and at first for the book both of which are now quite rare. This title also marks the authors final collaboration with Phiz Dickenss most evocative and most sympathetic illustrator. Smith I 13. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 333-342. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
185066Bradbury & Evans 1850. First Edition. wrappers. Very good. 20 vols. in 19 a serialization sequentially published over 1 1/2 years. 1st edition 1st issue in the original monthly parts preceding all other editions and read the next sentence deliberately because the distressing phrase you inevitably see is "almost every" while the happy phrase you are about to see is "each and every." This set conforms to each and every point in Hatton & Cleaver all erratum the correct covers all ads all samples and all 40 inserted plates by H. K. Browne including the frontispiece and vignette title. And perfection is important in a Dickens parts serialization because later ads are the telltale sign of later issue in many cases months later so do not discount comprehensiveness as mere frill or turn your back on it the way you would on a drunk woman haphazardly seated nearby at a dinner party who relentlessly keeps insisting that you name your favorite Powerpuff Girl. Original wrappers neat repairs to backstrips light wear at edges else a very good set the old-fashioned very good infrequently offered for sale so clean complete upright and intact a stirring combination of quality magnitude precedence and inclusiveness. Full dark blue morocco case. Collation: Octavo 8 1/8" X 5 9/16". i-vii viii ix x-xii xiii xiv xv-xvi 1 2-624. Reference: Hatton and Cleaver pp. 253-272. Eckel pp. 75-77. Raising his game at the height of his powers Dickens explores writing in the first person and achieves the great novel of initiation finding the ideal balance between the bustling energy of his early works and the mature sense of design exhibited here for the first time. The plotline is pierced by an unsettling exposé of the treatment inflicted on Victorian children and this is buttressed by poignant statements about the terrors and torments of youth coming of age most of which apply in any era and successfully concluding his quest the novel ends with a glimpse of the grown man. Dickens began to write it as pure autobiography but he found the naked facts too personal accordingly many of the events are drawn from his personal experiences but many more are fictionalized from his keen reconnaissance of life. However Micawber can be no other than Dickens' father and there is no doubt that David Copperfield is Dickens himself. And knowing that he had laid the needle against the redline pin on the great-ometer he openly stated more than once that Copperfield was his favorite from among all his books. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
03956London: Richard Bentley 1838. Original Cloth Rare First Issue<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. Vol. I. II. III. London: Richard Bentley 1838.<br/><br/>First edition first issue with the title-page authorship credit to "Boz" instead of Dickens and with the "Fireside" version of the final plate. <br/><br/>Three octavo volumes 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm. Volumes I and III in twelves volume II in eights. iv 1<br/>2-331 4 advertisements; iv 12-307308; iv 12-315316. No half-title called for in Volume III. Twenty-four inserted plates by George Cruikshank. With all but two of the sixty first issue points as stated by Smith. Volume III with short clean marginal tear 7/16 inch on B6 pp. 11/12 two short expertly repaired marginal tears on N6 & N7 pp. 255/6 & 257/8. Plates facing p. 105 and p. 165 a little foxed otherwise a remarkably clean set with all the text and plates clean and fresh.<br/><br/>Publisher's Carter A binding of moderate reddish brown horizontally ribbed cloth front and back covers stamped in blind with an arabesque design. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt without the gilt stamped London/Bentley imprint at foot original pale yellow coated endpapers. Inner hinges of volume I expertly and almost invisibly repaired rear inner hinge of volume III with very small minor and almost invisible repair. Lower joint of volume III with very slight four-inch crack which has been professionally repaired. Spines very slightly faded some minor rubbing and light wear to spine ends and corners but really a near fine set of Dickens landmark second novel. With the armorial bookplate of George Clinton Fairchild Williams on each paste-down. Individually chemised in a blue cloth clamshell case with four dark green morocco labels lettered in gilt on spine.<br/><br/>For this novel Dickens's first in the standard three-volume form Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: Volume I was printed in a twelvemo format by Samuel Bentley; Volume II in octavo format by Whiting; and Volume III preliminaries and signatures A-F and probably G by Whiting with the remaining text by Samuel Bentley again in twelvemo format. The three-decker publication date was 9 November 1838 and within a week at Dickens's insistence the title-pages were changed to include his name and the "Church" version of the final plate "Rose Maylie and Oliver" was substituted for the "Fireside" version. The true first issue is quite rare. <br/><br/>Smith I 4; Gimbel A27. London: Richard Bentley, 1838 unknown books
09063London 1837 i.e. April 1836 - November 1837: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. First edition in the original monthly parts 20 parts in 19 original green printed wrappers "With forty-three illustrations by Seymour and Phiz" and Buss. A NEAR PRIME COPY lacking just 3 of the 11 points required in Eckel's bibliography "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens 1932." Eckel enumerates 16 known Prime Copies in his book; one other Prime Pickwick has come to market since then making a total of 17 known Prime Copies. In 2014 Charles Parkhurst owned Prime Pickwick number 17 which was sold that year in a private sale. These 11 points are enumerated below. Octavo i-vviviiviii-ixx-xixii-xivxv-xvi 12-609610. This outstanding set has the supressed Buss plates in part III. Parts with first state original plates are II III Buss V VII VIII IX X XI XIII XIV XV XVII XVIII XIX/XX; the remaining plates are 2nd state. ALL plates are before letters i.e. without captions. As called for in Hatton & Cleaver plates in parts I through XII have page numbers; plates in parts XIII through XIX/XX have no page numbers It should be noted that plates 26 and 27 in part XII are 1st issue and therefore have no page number as explained in Hatton & Cleaver p. 63 and in Miller & Strange p. 45. All plates are very good to fine. Plates in part XIV are browned at edges. All front wrappers are dated MDCCCXXXVI 1836. Parts having correct or first issue wrappers are: VI VII X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX; part VIII wrappers are second issue as usual first issue wrappers for part VIII are the rarest things in all of Pickwick re: Hatton & Cleaver all others are "early" state wrappers "early" here means "not first issue". Spines are expertly renewed on most parts. Owner name or initials are in margin of front wrapper of parts VII and XIX/XX. The Addresses are present in parts X XV XVII XVIII and XIX/XX. The Advertiser not issued in the first three parts is present and complete in parts XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX. Parts having the first issue text and in accord with Miller & Strange are parts VII X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX; parts having mixed issue text are V. Parts which are complete or having all the ads and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver are parts XI XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII; parts XII XIII and XIX/XX are lacking only one ad. Let us enumerate the 11 points required by Eckel for a Prime Pickwick: #1. All covers must bear the date 1836. #2. Parts I and II must carry the words on the front wrapper "With Four Illustrations By Seymour." #3. Part III the words "With Illustrations by R. Buss" on the front wrapper. #4. Part I must have four plates by Seymour signed and not re-etched by Phiz. #5. Part II must have 3 plates by Seymour signed. #6. Part III must have the two plates signed "Drawn and etched by R. W. Buss" and the page numbers. #7. Part IV has the two plates indistinctly signed "Nemo" and not "Phiz." #8. Parts II III X and XV must have the addresses by the Author. #9. Parts XVII XVIII and XIX/XX must have the Addresses by the publishers. #10. Plates in parts I to XII must have no captions only references to the pages where they were inserted; parts XIII to XIX/XX must have neither titles nor numerical guides. #11. On the vignette title page the name "Weller" on the signboard over the door must appear with a "V" and the signature "Phiz fecit" must surround the tablet at the bottom of the frontispiece. The present Pickwick lacks only numbers 2 3 and 8 above i.e. the illustrators names on the front wraps of parts I II and III and the Addresses in parts II and III. Descriptions of each individual part follow: Part I. Wraps are early plate 1 1st state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 2 2nd state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 3 2nd state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 4 1st state of 2nd Seymour plate VG Text is early front ad by Chapman & Hall is lacking. Part II. Wraps are early with insides blank plates are 1st issue fine text is early Address is not present. Part III. Wraps early with insides blank with the Buss plates Fine text is early lacking the Address lacks the front and rear ad. Part IV. Wraps are early plates are 1st plate second state fine text is early lacks the Advertiser. Part V. Wraps are early plates are 1st issue fine text is mixed lacks the Advertiser and 2 rear ads. Part VI. Wraps are correct first issue plates are 1st plate 2nd state VG text is early lacks the Advertiser. Part VII. Front and rear wraps are correct first issue; plates are 1st issue text is 1st issue lacks the Advertiser and rear ad. Part VIII. Wraps are 2nd issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is early lacking the Advertiser and rear ad. Part IX. Front wrap is correct rear wrap is early plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is early lacks the Advertiser and 2 rear ads. Part X. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state Fine text is 1st issue with the Address lacking the Advertiser. Part XI. Wraps are 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG with the Advertiser text is 1st issue complete. Part XII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plate 26 is 1st plate 1st state plate 27 is 1st plate 2nd state Fine text is 1st issue with the Advertiser lacking the Mechi ad at rear. Part XIII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser lacking the rare ad "Pigot's Coloured Views." Part XIV. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser and rear ad complete. Part XV. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser with the Address and rear ads complete. Part XVI. Wraps are correct 1st issue plate 34 is 1st plate plate 35 is 2nd plate VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser complete. Part XVII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state fine text is 1st issue with all rear ads with the Advertiser with the Address complete. Part XVIII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate fine with the Advertiser with the Address with all rear ads complete. Part XIX/XX. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are first state VG text is 1st state with the Advertiser with the Address with rear ads lacking only the Mechi slip. ANNOTATED in pencil BY DICKENS' BIBLIOGRAPHER THOMAS HATTON as follows: Part III note on p. 51 "Wants Buss Plates." but Buss plates are present here. Part X note on inside rear wrap "10 1st issue." Part XII note on verso of plate #26 "1st issue / No newspaper on floor" and on verso of plate #27 "2nd issue / No hat on front bench." Part XIV note on final leaf of rear ad "93/20." Part XVII note on plate #36 "at p. 504." Housed in a custom blue quarter-leather slipcase with chemise with armorial bookplate of Charles Parkhurst. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection The Heritage Book Shop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
108340London: Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars May 1849 - November 1850. 8vo 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 32 1-32 4; 12 33-64 12; 12 65-96 4; 8 97-128; 4 129-160; 8 161-192 8; 8 193-224 8; 14 225-256; 12 257-288 22; 12 289-320 8; 8 321-352; 8 353-384 2 8; 8 385-416; 8 417-448; 4 2 449-480 8; 4 481-512; 4 513-544 2; 8 2 545-576 8 1; 16 577-624 xiv 1 errata 8 4 8 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. Original blue printed wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers uncut with a variety of ads on teal pink and white paper bound-in. Housed in a blue morocco pull-off case with raised bands gilt titling and additional blue cloth portfolio with flaps. Some backstrips and hinges mended edges slightly rubbed and chipped occasionally minor foxing to plates overall remarkably good condition for such an ephemeral publication; very good. § First edition in the original parts of Dickens's favorite of his novels. It was the first of his major works to be written in the first person and by his own admission contained much autobiography: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention" Letters VII 515. This set contains all of the advertisements slips steel engraved plates and specimens listed by Hatton & Cleaver except for rear insert “2†in part twelve eight pages or four; there are six specimens of Letts’ Diaries in part eight Hatton & Cleaver 235-271. Eckel 75. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1840WRCLIT64145London: Edward Moxon 1840. Two volumes. Polished tan calf spines gilt with gilt labels small repairs t.e.g. by Sotheran. Gift inscription to Emily Vine from her mother dated 1857 on title of each volume; extremities raised bands and edges rubbed; covers a little worn and soiled otherwise a good set. From the collection of William E. Self with his book label in each volume. An excellent association copy with a presentation inscription on the half-title in volume one: "J.A. Overs / From / Charles Dickens paraph / 1st November 1840." John A. Overs 1808-1844 a London cabinet-maker by training educated himself and pursued his interests in writing. Dickens became his most important literary friend providing comments on his stories and poems introducing him to newspaper editors and offering financial assistance when Overs became ill. Overs first wrote to Dickens in January 1839 hoping to have some poetry placed in Bentley's MISCELLANY and Dickens recommended several pieces to his successor as editor. "Perhaps more importantly however Dickens advised Overs on the publication of his EVENINGS OF A WORKING MAN 1844 and wrote the preface to the work. . . . In his preface Dickens is careful to emphasize Overs's autonomy stating that although he had given advice to the author on this collection of short pieces he 'never altered them otherwise than by recommending condensation now and then' and assuring the reader that the volume's sketches represented Overs's 'genuine work as they have been his sober and rational amusement'" - DNB. The two men remained close until Overs's death in 1844: "When poor Overs was dying he suddenly asked for a pen and ink and some paper and made up a little parcel for me which it was his last conscious act to direct. She Amelia Overs told me this and gave it me. I opened it last night. It was a copy of his little book in which he had written my name 'With his devotion.' I thought it simple and affecting of the poor fellow" Dickens to John Forster 17 Dec. 1844 in the LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS Pilgrim Edition 4240. Edward Moxon hardcover books
1843261870London: Chapman and Hall 1843. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece & 3 plates by John Leech all hand colored as issued; 4 woodcut text illustrations. 2 pages of undated ads at end. 166 pages. Small slim 8vo light brown vertically ribbed cloth stamped in blind with single line & decorative border; gilt wreath surrounding the title; spine with gilt lettering & ornaments gilt edges. London: Chapman & Hall 1843. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with red & blue title page mottled green end-papers & Stave I at the beginning of the text. The binding is stained and the hinges are cracked but otherwise a clean sound copy in a red morocco solander case.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
09151London 1850 i.e. May 1849-November 1850: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. The present set collates complete with ALL the ads and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver; ALL wrappers are correct. Twenty monthly parts in 19; octavo i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. Forty inserted plates including the frontis and vignette title. Plates are very good to fine the majority being fine. Spines expertly renewed on several parts. The subscriber's name appears on the front wrap of 10 parts. The scarce Lett's Diary in part VIII has the leaf which folds out to 26 inches and 7 specimen leaves. In part XII the "Industry of All Nations" ad is unopened. Internally clean and bright throughout - an outstanding set in every respect. Housed in a turn-of-the-Century red full-leather pull-off-top solander clipcase with chemise. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
184428883Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. First American edition. Small 8vo illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech a hand-colored frontispiece three There is a hand colored frontispiece of Mr. Fezziwig's ball three colored plates that are lithographed by P. S. Duval and four black-and-white original brown cloth decorated and lettered in blind and gilt on the front cover and spine and in blind only on rear cover by J. C. Russell Binder. First American edition of Dickens' most popular work. replicating the first English edition the American edition was printed by "C. Sherman printer" as noted on the verso of the title-page. Carey & Hart's American publication was a piracy published in blatant disregard to Dickens' impassioned plea for international copyright protection during his tour of America in 1843. The present copy is in the rare gift binding stamped on the front cover with the binder's name unlike in the ordinary bindings. Edgar & Vail p. 21; Gimbel a80; McGuire Collection 31; Wilkins p. 38; Suzzanet Collection p. 190 item 78 the ordinary binding only. a short 1/8 inch closed tear at the top of the spine slight foxing to endpapers otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this edition far scarcer than the English edition. Enclosed in a red half-morocco folding box. <br/><br/> Carey & Hart hardcover books
1861107909Chapman and Hall 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition volume one is first issue or edition volume two is third issue or edition and volume 3 is the second issue or edition. It is believed the first five issues were all printed at the same time but the title pages were changed to say later editions to indicate rapid sales. Rebound in quarter leather and marbled paper. There were only 1000 copies of the true first edition represented by the first edition of volume one here. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with leather spine and gold tooling and lettering. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18381903016Richard Bentley 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first edition first issue in book form published before the magazine serialization was completed. In original cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom case with a leather spine. This the first issue has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and Boz listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9 1838. At Dicken's insistence the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate and Dickens's name replaced Boz and the book was reissued in three volumes a mere 7 days after the first issue on November 16 1838. Richard Bentley hardcover books
18913598London: Chapman and Hall 1891. Reprint of the Illustrated Library Edition. Thirty octavo volumes 221 x 141 mm. Late 19th century full polished calf by Tout stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper. Covers with gilt triple fillet border with gilt corner ornaments spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments with five gilt- dotted raised bands and red and green morocco gilt lettering labels board edges with gilt-dotted rule turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities headcaps on Volumes IX X and XXI expertly repaired. Small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown of each volume. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Partially unopened. A near fine set. <br/><br/> "The Library Edition came about largely because of the suggestion of Forster that while Dickens's works were available in volumes in the Cheap Edition and in reprints of the serial parts there was no high-quality edition that would appeal to the wealthy. Dickens eventually came round to the idea that an elegant edition could raise the stature of his writings. He faced a complication in that the rights to the works were divided between Chapman and Hall and Bradbury and Evans. Consequently the volumes contained the imprints of both publishers. With a dedication to Forster the Library Edition appeared in 22 volumes in 1858-9 at 7s 6d per volume. Titles included Pickwick Nickleby Chuzzlewit Old Curiosity Shop Reprinted Pieces Barnaby Rudge Hard Times Sketches by Boz Oliver Twist Dombey Copperfield Pictures from Italy Bleak House Little Dorrit and Christmas Books. The only illustrations were the frontispieces.<br/><br/>Between 1861 and 1874 this edition was reissued in 30 volumes with the addition of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Uncommercial Traveller A Child's History of England Christmas Stories and Drood. The reissue contained illustrations—the frontispieces plus additional illustrations by artists such as Marcus Stone John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield—and came to be known as the Illustrated Library Edition.Recognizing the continuing potential for sales of Dickens's works Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition containing they contended all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions this set was published in 30 volumes between 1873 and 1876 and sold at £15 for the set a high price for the time" Oxford Companion to Dickens. <br/><br/>Gimbel D72. Chapman and Hall unknown books
184212588JBoston: 3 1/4 pages 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches January 31 1842. Original Autograph Letter Signed “Richd. H. Dana Jr.†written to Dana’s English publisher Edward Moxon describing the amazingly warm response of Americans to Charles Dickens visiting Boston. An absorbing letter showing Dana’s wonderful narrative abilities of which more than half is devoted to Dana’s account of Dickens’s stay in Boston during the English author’s celebrated first trip to America in 1842. Moxon was the British publisher of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and the recently issued The Seaman’s Friend. “. We have Dickens here with us & the whole town is crazy the author and his wife arrived in Boston from England on 22 January. I doubt if a literary man ever made such a ‘progress’ through a country as he is making through ours. Indeed I am certain it will be an era in literary history . From the moment the steamer was sighted up to this hour. The whole community has been in a high fever . he is obliged to refuse all visitors except at certain hours & then he holds a regular levee. The other day when he went to sit for his portrait on coming out he found the ante room staircase etc. lined with people young & old. One old lady asked him to stand still & let the ladies form a ring round so that all could see him. This was too much for his risibles & he laughed out & told her eager ladyship that he was sorry etc. but was in a hurry — & was going off; when the ladies called out to the artist ‘Do Mr. A. stop him! Don’t let him go!’ In the meanwhile the standard men of literature & wealth are paying him every attention & like him exceedingly . I have met him several times & like him very much. How full of life he is! . He told me much in the way of answering questions about yourself ‘ our friend’ as you call him Capt. Ives & others of whom I was curious to inquire . Dickens has told us many anecdotes of Charles Lamb some of which are not yet published & which interested us very much. You don’t know what a feeling there is here about Lamb .†Boston’s adulatory reception of the English writer reached its climax the next day 1 February with a great banquet held in his honor which Dana also attended. Dickens’s visit to the United States he returned to England in June resulted in his American Notes for General Circulation 1842. Written in brown ink on a bifolium of gray paper with small embossed stamp of T. Groom Boston; address panel postmark and remnants of red sealing wax. A rare view of Dickens in America through the eyes of a significant American writer. 3 1/4 pages (9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches unknown books
18591083568vo. London: Chapman & Hall MDCCCLIX 1859. 8vo ix 1-254 16 etched plates including frontis and title vignette. Full olive green fine-diaper cloth entirely stamped in blind with a three line border which encloses a rectangular frame within which is is an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design with each link enclosing a four-leafed flower. Housed in a green cloth slip-case. The head and tail of the backstrip are very slightly bumped with some sun toning; minor scattered foxing mostly near plates and some off-setting; a good clean copy in a beautifully preserved original cloth binding. § First edition in the rare secondary green cloth binding. Two of the eight internal flaws identified by Smith as necessary for the first issue have been corrected: “l†and “f†are printed on p.116 and 213 is numbered correctly. Of the latter point Eckel observes “The absence of this error does not invalidate a first edition but it fixes the priority of printing†and Smith concludes “this binding is probably of a later state than the red morocco cloth one†i.e. second issue. “When Dickens began the publication of All the Year Round the successor of Household Words he realized the necessity of making a strong start. So he began writing A Tale of Two Cities publishing the first of the serial in the opening number of his new periodical. As a novel of great popularity it probably ranks next to Pickwick and Copperfield†Eckel 87. This was the last novel in which Dickens worked with “Phiz†after a partnership of 23 years and was published on commission through the renewed partnership with Chapman & Hall. Podeschi A143. Thomson 89. Smith I 13. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1838126341838. our finest copy evah or The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley 1838. 4 pp Vol I undated ads; 2 preliminary pp Vol III undated ads. Original purplish-brown fine-diaper cloth. First Edition first issue of this classic novel that has also been a hit as a Broadway musical. This is the "true first edition" not merely the "first edition in book form." Unlike most of Dickens's novels OLIVER TWIST was not first issued in monthly serial parts; it did appear in "Bentley's Miscellany" magazine from February 1837 through April 1839 but this three-volume edition was published in November 1838. OLIVER TWIST was finally issued in ten serial parts in 1846 -- one of the scarcest "Dickens in parts." Within a week after initial publication copies began to be issued at Dickens's insistence with his name on the title pages rather than "Boz" and with the "church" plate replacing the "fireside" plate. This copy is of the first issue -- with "Boz" on the title pages and with the "fireside" plate at the end of Vol III. This set is in the primary fine-diaper cloth some copies are in horizontally-ribbed cloth of the same color but with a different arabesque design -- precedence unknown. This copy does have the "London/Bentley" imprint at the foot of the spines where some copies are blank; it has been surmised that the blank binding is earlier if only because Bentley would have been more likely to add than to remove his name from the volumes -- though precedence is far from certain. Lastly the list of illustrations in Vol I is present in this copy: again it is uncertain whether its absence or its presence was the earlier state though it is possible that Bentley may have begun inserting it when he realized that George Cruikshank's name had otherwise been omitted from the publication. Bear in mind that the second issue with Dickens's name on the title pages was out within a week of the first; therefore all of these questions of precedence among issue points involve only a few days. This set is in FINE condition: there is essentially no external wear to the cloth the spine gilt remains bright the original yellow endpapers exhibit only the merest hint of cracking there is scarcely any foxing at all on the textual leaves or plates. in fact the ONLY notable flaw is that on two covers there is a faint partial glass-ring. Period. This is the best copy we have offered in our 35 years in business. Smith I pp 28-37; Gimbel A27; Eckel pp 59-61; Carter BV p. 107 and MBV p. 7. Housed in a morocco-backed clamshell case. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1838140940185London: Richard Bentley 1838. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. First issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. i-iv 12-3311 blank 4 ads; i-iv 12-307308; i-iv 12-315316 no half-title called for in Vol. III. Twenty-four inserted plates by George Cruikshank. Bound in publisher's primary original reddish-brown cloth decorated in blind arabesque pattern on on front cover with spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spines cloth lightly marked. Several previous owner names and bookplates to front and rear pastedowns. Rear inner hinge of Volume I started at top. Spine cloth of Volume III partially split along rear joint and large corner of rear free endpaper has been filled in otherwise free of restoration work. A fantastic set or one of Dickens' best-known works in the original cloth. Richard Bentley unknown books
09150London May 1849 - November 1850: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. Original Wraps. ALL wrappers are correct. ALL Advertisers slips and ads are present and in accord with the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography but for one leaf of the scarce Lett's Diary in part VIII which has 7 specimen leaves 2 of which are folding. Annotated by Thomas Hatton in part I page 19 of the Advertiser "D.C. 1" and in part IV on page 7 of the Advertiser "D.C./4" as was his custom on many ads. Laid in to part XI is one page of autograph notes by Thomas Hatton listing "textual imperfections" in this very part. Twenty 20 monthly parts in 19; octavo with 40 inserted plates including the frontis and vignette title. i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. The plates in parts XVI XVII and XVIII are lightly tanned at edges not affecting the illustration; all other plates are very good to fine; tissue guards are in place. Most parts have spines expertly renewed. Light soiling to a few wrappers. Neat owner name on front wrap of part X and final leaf of rear ad with corner loss. An outstanding set in every respect and with a pedigree - it is from the famed Thomas Hatton and Cleaver collection. Housed in a handsome turn-of-the-century solander pull-off-top three-quarter leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection the Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans paperback books
