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1854108032London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. First edition in book form of Dickens' attack on the living conditions of England's mid-19th century industrial cities. Octavo original green cloth blindstamped with gilt titles to the spine including the "Price 5/-" in gilt at the base of the spine and p.244 misnumbered as 44. From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' stepfather Hugh D. Auchincloss. Auchincloss married Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' mother Janet Lee Bouvier in 1942. His great grandfather John W. Auchincloss built the 28-room Victorian mansion Hammersmith Farm in 1887 which would later become Jaqueline's childhood home and the site of the reception of her 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy. With the previous owner Albert Henry Wiggin's card laid in. American banker Albert H. Wiggin amassed a large fine art and book collection in the early to mid 20th century much of which he later donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Art and Boston Public Library. In very good condition with the half-title present which is often lacking. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase. Initially published serially in Household Words between April and August of 1854 Hard Times was published in book form almost immediately following the final serial in 1854. Viewed as a departure from Dickens' previous tales the work presents what was to become an increasingly somber picture of contemporary society in Dickens' works. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay focused on Dickens' treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism in regards to the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era. F. R. Leavis a great admirer of the book included it - but not as a whole - in his Great Tradition of English novels. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1877144221877. or Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. Original green cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition being a volume in Osgood's diminutive "Vest-Pocket Series." We say first "collectible" edition of this play first performed in 1837 because the only known copy of the first edition from which Osgood printed this edition was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879 and there are only five known copies three of which are in institutions of the wrappered second edition London circa 1869-1871. This copy is in bright green cloth; others are in terra-cotta cloth without priority. It is a fine bright copy -- the only flaw being a short closed tear in the edge of the front free endpaper the front paste-down bears the armorial bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson 1841-1915. Podeschi Yale B62; Eckel pp 159-161. Housed in a magnificent full-morocco clamshell case lined in velvet and silk moiré that bears the gilt monogram S&S the binder Sangorski & Sutcliffe. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1838121730London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition of Dickens' popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo 2 volumes original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles and gilt pictorial vignettes to the spines frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi and 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank. With the 36-page undated publisher's catalogue bound-in at the end of vol.2. and plate facing page 238 in the second state. In fine condition. Housed in two half morocco and chemise slipcases. After the legendary pantomime's death Dickens was invited by Richard Bentley to edit and improve Thomas Egerton Wilks's clumsily written Life of Grimaldi which had been based on the clown's own notes which Dickens did under his regular nom de plume "Boz". As a child Dickens saw Grimaldi perform at the Star Theatre Rochester in 1820. The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi illustrated by George Cruikshank sold well to Dickens's surprise. Richard Bentley hardcover books
187091840London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First edition of Dickens' final novel. Octavo bound in full early 20th century morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine double gilt ruled raised gilt bands all edges gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens with tissue guard 12 engraved plates. In near fine condition with very light rubbing and some toning to the pages. Charles Dickens' novels regularly revolved around masks dual identities and other secrets. The Mystery of Edwin Drood however "enlarged and strengthened such matters in the pursuit of a larger vision a vision which depicts the 'lanes of light' between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon 'that mysterious fire which lurks in everything" Ackroyd 1056. Unfortunately at the time of his death on June 9 1870 Dickens had written only six parts of the book three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens had so closely guarded the plot's outlines even from his closest friends that to this day the identity of Drood's killer remains a topic for speculation discussion and debate. "There are few of Dickens' stories which are superior in the matter of composition. one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature" Eckel 96. This tantalizing tale has been adapted in film and television several times. Chapman and Hall unknown books
18463341London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First edition. First edition. An unrecorded binding apparently a trial issue bound in plain red pebbled cloth speckled edges. Half-title bound without engraved title frontispiece or advertisement ink name to title and front fly-leaf pale plain endpapers. An unusual and uncited variant. Scarce. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
37010Boston:: Dana Estes & Company. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. B0057SLVJ4 . Complete in fifteen volumes. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout each volume various illustrators. No statement of printing early 1900s. Octavos half-bound in light brown leather marbled boards gilt lettering and design along spines top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Light edge wear else each volume is very good. Binding are solid and tight. . Dana Estes & Company, hardcover books
04955London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First Edition in Book Form of Master Humphrey's Clock - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Vol. I. II. III. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841-1841.<br/><br/>First edition in book form. Three large octavo volumes 10 1/16 x 6 5/8 inches; 255 x 169 mm. i-viii 12-306; i-vvi 12-306; i-vvi 12-426. Two frontispieces 130 woodcuts and twenty-five initials by Browne; one frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise.<br/><br/>Publisher's dark purple-brown rib-grain blind-stamped cloth with primary clock design stamped in gilt on front covers spines lettered and tooled in gilt. Original Spanish hair-vein marbled endpapers in black blue and red all edges marbled. Some minor wear to top of spines minimal fading to covers the gilt bright and fresh. Some light scattered foxing to throughout. An excellent set. With the armorial bookplate of Barbara Hylton Madge on front paste-downs and also the early in signature of Agnes Barron 1841 on all three front blanks.<br/><br/>"Being a hard sleeper likewise he divided his time pretty equally between these two recreations always falling asleep when he had done eating and always taking another turn at the trencher when he had done sleeping by which means he grew more corpulent and more drowsy every day of his life." - Charles Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock<br/><br/>Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends which includes Mr. Pickwick and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included followed by the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended The Old Curiosity Shop as a short story like the others that had appeared in Master Humphrey's Clock but after a few chapters decided to extend it into a novel. Master Humphrey appears as the first-person narrator in the first three chapters of The Old Curiosity Shop but then disappears stating "And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves."<br/><br/>Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day he decides that he would start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. A mirror club in the kitchen Mr. Weller's Watch run by Mr. Weller has members including Humphrey's maid the barber and Sam Weller.<br/>Master Humphrey's Clock appeared after The Old Curiosity Shop to introduce Barnaby Rudge. After Barnaby Rudge Master Humphrey is left by himself by the chimney corner in a train of thoughts. Here the deaf gentleman continues the narration. Later the deaf gentleman and his friends return to Humphrey's house to find him dead. Humphrey has left money for the barber and the maid no doubt by traces of love that they would be married. Redburn and the deaf gentleman look after the house and the club closes for good.<br/><br/>In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that story.<br/><br/>Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Barbara Hylton Madge 1882-1967 on front paste-downs. Barbara Hylton Madge was the wife of Lieut. Col. C.A. Madge and mother to John Madge who wrote The Origins of Science Sociology. His brother Charles Henry Madge who was a poet journalist and a literary figure from his early twenties and founder of Mass Observation.<br/><br/>Smith I 6. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840 unknown books
1840243056London: Chapman & Hall 1840. First. hardcover. very good. Illus. by George Cattermole and H.K. Browne. 3 vols. 4to early 20th century 3/4 red morocco all edges gilt; lightly rubbed. London: Chapman & Hall 1840-41. First Edition in book form.<br/><br/> The plates are clean with none of the usual foxing.<br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
1865243553London: Chapman & Hall 1865. First. hardcover. fine. 40 Wood-Engraved Plates by Marcus Stone. 2 volumes. 8vo early 20th century 3/4 red morocco all edges gilt by Morrell. London: Chapman & Hall 1865. First Edition.<br/><br/> Complete with the half-titles & Postscript. First issue misspelling of "principal" on page 115 of second volume. The plates & text are entirely free from foxing.<br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
1924119346London: George G. Harrap 1924. Finely bound example of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine tooling to the front and rear panels frontispiece marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In fine condition. With many lovers of the author's works David Copperfield ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood Micawber the Pegottys and Mr. Dick. it would be strange if it had been otherwise" Eckel 77. "Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. George G. Harrap unknown books
1907014461New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1907. THIRTY-EIGHT VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Top edges gilt. Original illustrations with tissue-guards. Printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868. Spines have mellowed to brown as is usual. Occasional light wear to corners. Small wedge of leather missing from top of spine of "Great Expectations". The edition was published in 34 volumes. Two additional volumes were added in the same year 1907 "The Life of Charles Dickens" by John Forster. In 1908 two additional volumes were added with "Miscellaneous Writings". All 38 volumes are present a pleasing and complete set of the works of one of Great Britain's most-revered authors. Due to size of this set postage will be extra. See photos. Later Edition. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octac. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
18473553London: Thomas Farris 1847. 1st edition Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller p. 249; NCBEL III 798. Period brown half-leather with brown cloth boards. Original wrapper covers from Parts I & II priced 6p bound-in at rear. VG spine leather a bit sunned/some minor rubbing to joints/multiple bookplates to eps. 2 94 pp. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/> Thomas Farris hardcover books
18775498.2Boston: James R. Osgood & Co 1877. Green decorative cloth w/ gilt lettering on front board/decorations stamped inblack. 'Vest Pocket Series' red advert eps. 3rd edition Eckel p. 159; Gimbel B62; VanderPoel B5301. Not in Welsh though see #2371 MR NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY also published in this 'Vest Pocket' series. VG modest extremity wear. 80 pp. 2 prefatory woodcut vignettes. 16mo. <br/><br/>According to Eckel the only known copy of the first edition perished in an 1879 fire; the second edition published in the early 1870s is known by only a few extant copies so if one in one's lifetime is to have this title represented in one's Dickens' collection this will be the edition most likely to be found. James R. Osgood & Co hardcover books
188032223London: Chapman & Hall 1880. 1st edition thus. Original publisher's flexible green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. PPII cocked with a small stain to the lower corner of the first 4 leaves. BH1 with cracked front hinge. Otherwise a VG to Nr Fine set with the occasional VG volume evidently depending as one would expect on the popularity of the title. 30 volumes complete. 16mo. 5-7/8" x 3-7/8" <br/><br/>An economical edition offered by C&H in this pocket format without illustrations. Uncommon as offered here i.e. in a complete set. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
200036744n. p.: Micawber Fine Editions 2000. 1st edition thus. #III of 10 cc hors commerce. Total limitation of 85 cc. SIGNED by Findeiss & Dean. Full green morocco leather binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & full color pictorial onlay to front board. Slik moire eps. Custom clamshell case. A Fine copy in a Nr Fine clamshell case with has a small bump to its upper corner. 160 4 ii - xxiv 11 pp. Illustrated in color by Findeiss. With an additional suite of 11 SIGNED / Numbered loose plates. 8vo. 10-1/8" x 7-3/8". Case: 11-1/2" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> Micawber Fine Editions hardcover books
184227245.2Boston: William Cosby and Company 1842. 1st separate appearance BAL 8735n; Gimbel B112; Kitton 1; Tilton p. 560. Original buff printed wrappers. Custom red cloth chemise with leather title label to spine. Period pos 2. Faint tide lines to text upper margin. A respectable VG copy. Case - VG with two bookplates 'Frank Maier' & 'Thomas Wallace'. 2 66 pp. Dickens' speech recorded on pp. 10 - 15. Holmes' 'Song' p. 33. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>This dinner was sponsored by a committee of 'Young Men of Boston' who had extended their invitation to the also young but already famous author before he left England. The dinner was held in Papanti's Hall with Josiah Quincy Jr as Chair who was ably assisted by Oliver Wendell Holmes & Nathan Hale Jr; the young James T. Fields was a guest. Also in attendance was "Josiah Quincy Sr the president of Harvard Washington Allston the poet & artist; George Bancroft the Historian & Richard Henry Dana Jr. . Letters were read from Prescott Washington Irving William Ellery Channing Judge Story and others regretting their inability to be there." In his remarks Dickens introduced the subject of International Copyright a topic dear to his heart if not those in attendance. This was one of the first salvos in a battle that was to rage for decades and the local papers were not slow to respond saying Dickens' remarks were in bad taste for a social gathering & charged him with creating a "huge dissonance". Evidently the future prominent Boston publisher Mr Fields thought Nevermind with respect to the copyright issue for he is known to have written shortly thereafter "Was there ever such a night before in our staid city" and he would later become a staunch friend to and publisher of the 'Inimitable'. cf. Johnson. DICKENS pp. 374-376. After the dinner Dickens wrote Forster "It was a most superb affair and the speaking admirable." Per Fielding Dickens "left Boston on 5 February with happier memories of his visit there than of anywhere else in America when four months later he returned to England." Fielding. SPEECHES Of DICKENS. p. 22. Scarce. Only 2 cc at auction in the past 25 years the last being 1998. This only the second copy we've ever been able to offer in the 20 years we've been handling Dickens material. William Cosby and Company hardcover books
02675London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1931. Rackham Rings Dickens' Chimes<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator DICKENS Charles. The Chimes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by Edward Wagenkecht. London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1931. <br/><br/>Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist this being copy number 622. Small folio 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in; 293 x 190 mm. xxxii 4 128 2 pp. Six full page illustrations and fourteen drawings in black and white. <br/><br/>Publisher's original pictorial buckram. Top edge gilt. Slight fading 1 inch to front and lower boards at spine. A near fine copy in the publisher's pictorial slipcase with matching limitation number.<br/><br/>Introduction writer Edward Wagenknecht 1900-2004 "was the last surviving great scholar bookman to be born at the end of the Victorian era. He wrote two seminal works on the English and American novel and a long line of critical literary biographies from 1929 to 1994. His first major biography was The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait 1929. Two years later Wagenknecht successfully persuaded Arthur Rackham to illustrate Dickens's Christmas tale The Chimes for the Limited Editions Club" <br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell p. 67. London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1931 unknown books
184055375London: Chapman & Hall 1840. First Edition. Hablot Browne. Three volumes bound in little rubbed 3/4 calf with leather label A very good clean set in the original binding. Eckel p. 69. Podeschi A51. Smith 6. Master Humphrey's Cloak was a weekly periodical edited and published by Charles Dickens between April 1840 and December 1841. originally published as a weekly serial they contained both short stories and two novels "The Old Curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge Chapman & Hall unknown books
186555371London: Chapman & Hall 1865. First Edition. Marcus Stone. 2 volumes bound in one. 8vo pp. xii1-320viii1-309. Bound in later some rubbed 3/4 calf a very nice clean copy. See Eckel p. 94ff. This does not have the advertisements but does have the inserted slip: "To the Reader." VanderPoel B272. Chapman & Hall unknown books
18481408101Bradbury & Evans 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in book form; early issue. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale Retail and for Exploration by Charles Dickens and with illustrations by H.K. Brownie. 1848 stated on the title page. Quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards and gilt pinstripe detailing. Decorative gilt detailing on spine. A very handsome book. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. Slight tanning of the pages. Very good condition. Comes housed in a custom slipcase. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1857021470London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition. Octavo. First state with all issue points by Smith. 625pp. illustrated by H.K. Brown with 40 plates of which eight are the dark plates three line errata B2 instead of BB2 and more. Bound from the original parts stab marks visible in 3/4 red morocco over red cloth raised bands and title gilt all edges marbled with marbled endpapers an exceptionally clean copy without foxing to plates text clean light rubbing to joints and corners. From the library of author George M. Doe with his bookplate. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
184108301London: Chapman and Hall 1841. First Edition. Hard Cover. George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Large Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set. Bound in original brown cloth with first issue variant gilt design on front cover. This is a floral design not the clock design. Dicken's bibliographer Walter E. Smith's copy with his signature. Volume II of this set is shown as "Binding Variation of Master Humphrey's Clock" in the bibliography "Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth Part I" on page 45. Three very good to very good copies with front inner hinge cracked in Volume I rear outer hinge of Volume III starting mild cover edge wear all three volumes. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18771042Boston: James R. Osgood & Co 1877. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 16mo. 96pp. bound in original green cloth decorated in black lettering gilt. According to Eckel there are only 3 known copies of the original edition privately printed in 1851 which Dickens wrote with Mark Lemon the editor of Punch. Inner hinges cracked minor wear at extremities; very good. Housed in a unique green cloth slipcase. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood & Co hardcover books
1865265076London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition in book form. 40 engraved plates by Dalziel Brothers or W. T. Green after illustrations by Marcus Stone. xi i 320; vii i 309 1 2 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern half calf with red morocco lettering-pieces marbled edges monthly part covers to parts I & II bound-in. Edgewear and spotting to a few plates else near fine. First edition in book form. 40 engraved plates by Dalziel Brothers or W. T. Green after illustrations by Marcus Stone. xi i 320; vii i 309 1 2 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dickens' tale of hidden identities greed and love all wrapped up with the theme of wealth and its evils. Eckle p. 94; Smith #15 p. 106 Chapman and Hall unknown books
1839011978London: Chapman and Hall 1839. An early twentieth-century binding with green cloth-covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Panelled spine with gilt lettering and panel designs. Date at foot of spine. The spine has mellowed to brown which is quite common with old green leather. This first edition in book form contains 39 etchings by Hablot K. Brown Phiz and a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait after the painting by David Maclise. The engraved frontispiece is in the first state with Chapman and Hall at the bottom other plates do not have the imprint and are termed second state. Most of the textual errors as noted in Smith have not been corrected although a few have been changed. Three plates are misbound: "Newman Noggs Leaves the Ladies" is found at p.166 "Nicholas Attracted by the Mention of His Sister's Name" at .308 and "The Children at Their Cousin's Grave" at p. 223. Plates and text are generally fresh and clean occasional minor foxing only. Originally issued in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts. 624pp. See Smith 1:5 Eckel pp64-66 Podeschi A41. . First Edition Second Issue. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light Edge Wear. Illus. by Hablot Knight Browne. Octavo. Chapman and Hall Hardcover books
