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18593870London: No. 11 Wellington Street North 1859. First edition. All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. London: C. Whiting for No. 26 Wellington Street Volumes I-II 30 April 1859 - 7 April 1860; Volumes IV-VIII 13 October 1860 – 21 February 1863.<br /> <br /> <br /> FIRST APPEARANCES of A Tale of Two Cities nos.1-31 and Great Expectations nos.84-119 in serialized form. A Tale of Two Cities had first appeared in the weekly journal All the Year Round from 30 April to 26 November 1859. All the Year Round was considered a replacement or continuation of Household Words which had ceased publication in 1857. Vol.I-II and IV-VIII of All the Year Round contain many other pieces by Dickens including several sketches which afterwards appeared in book form as The Uncommercial Traveller. Eckel pp. 194-195; Gimbel E9-21.<br /> <br /> These books measure approximately 9.5" x 6" with over 600 numbered pages in each volume. Volume III is missing. <br /> <br /> Good overall condition. General shelf wear. Volume 4 & 5 front and rear boards are loose and cracked. Volume 6 front board cracked. Volume 7 front and rear boards cracked. Volume 8 rear board cracked. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # L4-2. No. 11, Wellington Street North unknown
68234EB. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Chapman and Hall London UK. 1837. Xiv 609 pgs. Illustrated with With 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. First Edition/Early issue with the following points: five lines of footnotes to page 9; with the last 'e' of page 17 broken; with the signature 'E' present to the tail of pages 25 and 27; page 261 correctly signed 'X2'; with the second '3' in the page number present to page 303; ; line 1 correctly reading "inbelicate" and line 5 reading "inscriptino"; line 5 with "S. Veller" uncorrected; page 400 line 21 with "his friends"; and page 432 with the "F" in the "OF" of the headline perfect. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with raised bands along the spine and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards very lightly worn to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the title page and previous owner's name present to the half-title page. Edges trimmed. Foxing Present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors' prison characters and incidents spring to life from Dickens's pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
183764822E-049: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Chapman and Hall. 1837. Two Volumes. 609 pgs total. Illustrated with With 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. First Edition/Early issue with the following points: with signature mark "E" present on p. 25 first line of second paragraph of chapter V with "ruined wall" p. 43 the rare signature misprint on p. 261 reading "X2" and "holding" on p. 260. Penny Pickwick tipped into the rear of the second volume. Bound in 20th century contemporary green leather with raised bands along the spine and gilt titles present to the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards very lightly worn to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Foxing Present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club also known as The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz published in 1836 most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes. Dickens still writing under the pseudonym of Boz increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Chapman and Hall hardcover
18401271871840. First Edition. DICKENS Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. Three volumes. Large octavo contemporary full green cloth burgundy morocco spine labels uncut. $2500.First edition in book form with frontispieces and almost 200 in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne ""Phiz"". Includes The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.When Dickens conceived of this work he ""had already written his preface to Nickleby in which for the first time he adopts that fond and agreeable tone towards his audience which he wished to continue"" in Master Humphrey's Clock ""his aim being he said that of ' one who wished their happiness and contributed to their amusement.' Here is Dickens as the man of feeling uniting all his readership in a concord of affection and brotherhood"" Ackroyd 291. First issued in both weekly and monthly parts. Bound without dedication leaf in Volume I. Hatton & Cleaver 163-64. Eckel 67-70. Smith 6. Interiors clean and fine just a touch of rubbing to extremities mild toning to spines near-fine. hardcover
1853140945989London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. First Edition. Very Good. First edition in book form first issue with 'Christmas 1851' on dedication page and ad pages as described by Eckel. 1852 1853 1854 but actually 1851-1853. Complete in three volumes. x 210pp; viii 214pp; x 210pp ads in rear of each volume Bound in red blind stamped publisher's cloth titled in gilt with pictorial gilt decoration at centers. Very Good with fading at spines slight lean to bindings. minor soiling and dust staining to covers; volume two has heavier staining to top edge of front board and crown; staining persists through binding in first gathering. All edges marbled. Contents slightly tanned with minor instances of foxing. Dickens' anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical history of England written for children in the original cloth. Bradbury & Evans unknown
186096189London: St. Lukes Hospital 1860. First edition first issue of Charles Dickens' article on Saint Luke's Hospital "for the gratuitous treatment of the insane poor." Octavo loosely bound in wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and chemise pull-off box. Rare. Dickens' A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree was published by St. Luke's Hospital in 1860 to raise funds for their Hospital for Lunatics. The volume contains a sketch about a visit to St. Luke's at Christmas by Dickens along with another piece he wrote about the hospital from an unsigned article in the London Times. St. Lukes Hospital unknown
1842776261842. DICKENS Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Original embossed cloth. London: Chapman and Hall 1842. 2 Vols. First edition first issue. HOWES D-316. Eckel p.108. Smith II:3. Dickens' reactions to his visit badly affected his relations with American readers for some time. Of Philadelphia he wrote "It is a handsome city but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street." Spines very slightly sunned. Very good or better. unknown
1853148214London: Bradbury Evans 1853. First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands top edge marbled marbled endpapers illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. With three key typographical errors called for in the first edition: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" instead of "hair" on page 209 line 23; and "counsinship" instead of cousinship on page 275 line 22. In near fine condition with light toning. Original cloth covers bound in at rear. Ownership plate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. "In Bleak House for the first time society is seen as an absurdity an irrelevance almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own Dickens had been preparing for this novel all his life and despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" Ackroyd 649-50. "The Dickens cosmos his phantasmagoric London and visionary England emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work before and after" Bloom 311. Bradbury Evans hardcover
1846149076London: Bradbury & Evans 1846-48. First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm. Octavo 20 parts in 19 original wrappers with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown containing all advertisements as issued. A mixed state set with the following points: Part I with no ads on inner front wrapper rear wrapper blank all other parts with called for ads on wrappers; twelve-line errata slip present in Part V "delight" for "joy" twice on page 284; "Captain" on last line of page 324;  page 426 “if†is not present on line 9; on page 431 the page number is not present which marks it as the earliest issue. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce and desirable. Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity… Dickens told his first biographer 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor Martin Chuzzlewit has done with Selfishness" Schlicke 280. The work "has a sense of the numinous is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it… Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" Ackroyd 526. The original serials contain the first of Browne's "dark plates" "On the dark Road" in part 18 created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate creating heightened contrast Johannsen Phiz 309. Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1873840771873. DICKENS Charles. Dickens' Works spine title. London: Chapman and Hall 1873-76. 30 vols. Illus. frontises. Three-quarter blue morocco spine gilt in six compartments t.e.g. With bookplate of Jane Thayer Lough on front pastedowns. Partially unopened. Fine. Undated thirty volume set of Dickens' collected works. A set of Dickens' works was first issued in 22 volumes in 1858-9 as the Library Edition; it was reissued with additional works in 30 volumes and illustrated title pages between 1861 and 1874 and was 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. See also Gimbel D72. unknown
18486253London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. First edition. First issue with the 'eight-line errata' following all but a very few of the points in Smith in book form of Dickens' seventh novel bound from the original monthly parts with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm. xvi 1 errata 1 blank 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece titlepage and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road" facing p. 547. Some of the plates with light foxing mainly marginal otherwise a very clean and partially uncut example. Publisher's 'primary' binding of moderate olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth; the front and back covers entirely stamped in blind with a three-line border which encloses a rectangular frame that occupies the length of the covers. The frame contains an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design that runs along its inner edge; each segment of the chain encloses a four-headed flower and is bordered by a nipple. The spine is lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with a thick band at its top and bottom and four rectangular panels. Original pale orange-yellow coated endpapers. With nearly all of the 'internal flaws' mentioned by Smith uncorrected. Front joint head and tail of spine and inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired spine slightly faded. An excellent example far better than is usually seen of this now hard to find Dickens novel in the original cloth. <br /> <br /> Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career-concerns about family duty class position child welfare and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise and its perils is the railroad. In chapter six Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. The book first "appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last forming a double number from October 1846 - April 1848. It was published in book form on April 12 1848. at 21s. Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road" p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process" Smith.<br /> <br /> Smith I:8. Sadleir 687. Wolff 1798. Bradbury & Evans unknown
021131London; from March 30 1850-May 28 1859: Bradbury and Evans. Octavo. In 19 volumes double-column. A weekly collection of stories a mixture of fiction and nonfiction along with social issues of the time. While Dickens was the editor and he did serialize a few of his stories through this magazine it have several "unnamed" contributors. An American edition was published but not well received as it pertained to the English way of life not American. Complete London editions are scarce. A complete set bound in 3/4 contemporary red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled. raised bands gilt title within one compartment gilt. All hinges and joints are fine and tight internally clean and bright without foxing. Some rubbing or darkening to bindings. From the library Joseph Greene with his armorial bookplate. A very nice set containing six of the nine extra Christmas numbers. (Bradbury and Evans) unknown
1861308427N.p. London 1861. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Old fold. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Uncommon printed facsimile of this notable letter from Charles Dickens writing as the editor of All the Year Round to Rev. Hughes of St Gallgo's Church whose heroic efforts at the time of the wreck of the Royal Charter off the coast of Anglesey in August 1859 inspired Dickens to write the "little article" mentioned here published in All the Year Round for 28 January and subsequently adapted as the first chapter of The Uncommercial Traveller. The invitation extended by Dickens to the minister and his family is poignant as the strain of the exertions contributed to Hughes' untimely death on 4 February 1862.<br /> <br /> In the British Academy/Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' letters the original letter is recorded as in the collection of Mrs. A.K. Frazer; it is further noted that "facsimiles of this letter were sold by Hughes to provide a monument now in Llanallgo Church to those drowned in the Royal Charter." This allows a narrow dating to 1860 or 1861. No copies of this facsimile are recorded in the Gimbel collection in other major Dickens holdings or in OCLC.<br /> <br /> The facsimile reproduces Dickens' Office of All the Year Round letterhead in monochrome slightly reduced and the text is as follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Mr Hughes <br /> You will receive from my printer's office by this same post a Proof of the little article I have written on the subject of my late visit. I am under the necessity of asking you to send it back to W. Wills here by return of post. For although a fortnight will elapse before it is published the mechanical necessities of this Journal and its simultaneous publication in England and America render its going to press at once imperative.<br /> I doubt whether I am quite right respecting the number of the drowned buried in your churchyard and the greatest number that lay in the church at one time. Will you do me the favour to correct me on those points And if you should observe any similar inaccuracy will you do me the additional kindness to mark it I trust that there is nothing in the article that you or your household will find displeasing. I have written it out of the honest convictions of my heart and in the hope that it will at least soften the distress of many people from whom you have not yet heard. It says for me all that I should otherwise have attempted to say in this note and merely strives to express what any visitor to you must surely feel. <br /> My daughters have taken a great interest in all I have told them and particularly in Mrs Hughes's idea of coming to London in the summer. They earnestly beg me to assure her and you that they hope to know you both very well and that it will be an uncommon gratification to them if you will come and see us down at my Kentish house on the top of Shakespeare's Gad's Hill which is little more than an hour's railway ride from town. <br /> I beg to present my true regard to the ladies of your house and to your brother and to assure you of the hearty esteem and respect with which I am Very faithfully yours <br /> Charles Dickens. <br /> This same post will also bring you the documents you also lent me returned with thanks. The Letters of Charles Dickens British Academy/Pilgrim Edition Vol. 9: 1859-1861 pp. 196-7 unknown
1857295638London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625 pages. Thick 8vo old calf re-backed in modern tan leather with leather spine label. Bound in at the end are all the front and back blue printed wrappers from the serial edition as well as most of the trade ads. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/> <br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xiv signature B2 on p. 371 and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on p 469-474. The plates are browned at the edges but not foxed.<br/> <br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown
185755017London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First edition with early issue points as per Smith pp. 467-474 uncorrected etc. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt spine darkened covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usual darkening at margins title and frontispiece slightly foxed and darkened -- still quite a good copy and infrequently seen in publisher's cloth. First edition with early issue points as per Smith pp. 467-474 uncorrected etc. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 1 vols. 8vo. Smith 12 Bradbury & Evans unknown
1838020246London: Richard Bentley 1838. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volume set. Vol. I: xx 238 pages. x 263 pages i followed by 36 pages of publisher's advertisement. Original cloth from boards and spine bound in preceding and following the text. Bound in full blue/green morocco by Zaehnsdorf with five raised bands on the spine and heavy gilt lettering and decoration; minimal shelfwear. Marbled endpapers. The top edge of the closed pages is covered in gilt. A small number of pages have minor foxing but the vast majority of the text is clean and bright. First edition first issue first state without the "grotesque" border added to "The last Song" plate at page 238 in Vol. II. Complete with 13 illustrations by George Cruikshank. Extra-illustrated with three additional plates: Vol. I has a hand-colored plate of Grimaldi dated 1846; Vol II has the "The last Song" plate is included in three different states. . Richard Bentley Hardcover
1838148217London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition of Dickens' popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo two volumes bound in full polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands double gilt rulings to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers top edges gilt frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Original cloth covers bound in at rear. Ownership plate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. An exceptional set. 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
18381083741838. London: Chapman and Hall April 1838 - October 1839. <br /> <br /> Thick 8vo. 24ads 8ads 8ads 2ads 4 original wrappers 4 ads xvi 1-624 4 ads 6 ads 8ads 8ads pp. 40 plates including frontisportrait. Full dark-brown calf backstrip with maroon label and title stamped in gilt. All plates are foxed though text and binding are bright; very good. <br /> <br /> § First edition bound from the original parts with blue wrappers from number eighteen and numerous advertisements bound in. A unique selection and collation of choice advertisements and all relevant material to the novel collected and handsomely bound. unknown
1859329773London 1859. hardcover. near fine. A brief signed autograph letter from Charles Dickens dated 10th November 1859 to Thomas Spalding sending his "Two proxies in favor of Mr Doogood." One page 8vo on headed stationary of Tavistock House mounted. The letter relates to Dickens's vote in an unnamed philanthropic society in favor of the journalist Henry John Doogood who had been blinded and paralyzed in a railway accident in 1854. Dickens himself was involved in a serious railway accident in 1865 when the Folkestone to London train came off the track near Staplehurst. Dickens's conduct on that occasion providing assistance to the injured was much admired at the time and the directors of the railway company sent him a piece of plate in gratitude.<br/> <br/> PRESENTED TOGETHER WITH: Letters. Edited by Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth. x 764 pages 4pp of advertisements. Small 8vo original gilt-stamped green cloth. London: Macmillan and Co. 1893. Third edition edited by Dickens's sister-in-law and his eldest daughter. A very good copy. The book and letter are preserved together in a specially made green cloth-covered 4to fall-down-back box with leather labels.<br/> <br/> unknown
1865779811865. DICKENS Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Bound in green full crushed morocco raised spine bands marbled endpapers inner gilt dentelles gilt chamfered edges T.e.g. housed in custom cloth and morocco slipcases with inner cloth chemises with morocco spines. London: Chapman and Hall 1865. 2 Vols. First edition first issue. Smith I: 15. Eckel p.94. A fine copy unknown
1865237<b>FIRST EDITION with all points per Smith. Two Octavo volumes. i-vii viii-ix x Xi xii 1 2-320 1 - 36 catalogue dated January 1865; i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-309 -312 colophon and ads 4 catalogue dated November 1865. Forty inserted plates after Marcus Stone.</b><br /><b>Publisher's original purple sand grain cloth Boards conventionally blocked in blind Spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow in papers. Previous owners signature to front pay down of same volume; Hugh Mitchell Pitlochry. On the half title Mr. Mitchell has added his notary embossed stamp reading High Mitchell Notary Public 1874. The second volume with the binders ticket Virtue & Co. On the lower front pace down and with our armorial plate of Beatrice Lady Ellenborough. With a small embossed stamp on front free in paper of book seller WH Smith and son. The first volume has been carefully and almost imperceptibly rebacked by the Heritage Bindery. Volume two is a bit darker than volume one extremities and tips with some light west and the rear hinge starting to slightly crack. contents are especially fresh and clean and virtually free of foxing and browning overall still a very good set with the purple holding well on the boards and gilt steel bright. Becoming increasingly hard to find in the original cloth with all the issue points. Now housed in a red quarter Morocco clamshell box by the Heritage Bindery.</b> Chapman & Hall hardcover
21845London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo 23cm.; original burgundy blind-tooled cloth decorative gilt spines; xi132036;vii130933pp.; frontis. & 38 plates. Both volumes recased with new endpapers to match original yellow glazed endpapers half titles preserved; cover blind-tooling neary imperceptible extremities a bit rubbed and faded spine crowns reinforced to match though affecting gilt ruling; Vol. I plates uniformly dampstained apparently before binding. Still a Very Good sound set. GIMBEL A150; SMITH 15. Chapman and Hall unknown
185968977London 1859. DICKENS Charles. London: 1859.<br> <br> Check signed by Dickens mounted to an inserted page in Volume I of the below book. Check is signed by Dickens in blue ink. The date on the check is fourteenth 1859. And it is made out for 150 pounds to Frederic Oury Wand canceled by London & Westminster Bank. Check is neatly creased at the end to fit in the book binding. A small pinhole at left side of check not affecting manuscript. Overall very good.<br> <br> Bound Within<br> <br> TAVERNER H. T. Charles Dickens. The Story of His Life. By the Author of the "Life of Thackeray."With illustrations and facsimiles. John Camden Hotten London: 1870.<br> <br> First edition. Extra illustrated with over 90 additional printed titles in red and black portraits views and facsimiles. And the inserted signed check. One volume extended into three octavo volumes 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 187 x 123 mm. xvi 17- 367 pp.<br> <br> Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son in full green morocco. Front boards with a gilt lion and a gilt bust of Dickens at different ages. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Back boards with a facsimile of Dickens' signature stamped in gilt. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Top edges gilt others uncut. Maroon coated endpapers. Spines a bit darkened and outer joints with some minor rubbing. The check is mounted in volume I and folded neatly to fit in the binding. Otherwise a near fine set with a nice Dickens' signature on the check.<br> <br> Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith Dickens.<br> <br> HBS 68977.<br> <br> $2500. London unknown
186151828Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1861. 1861. First edition. The U.S. edition precedes the U.K. edition by nine years. From the library of Alain de Suzannet with the bookplate present. Spine professionally rebacked to provide a fine bright tight copy. Charles Dicken's most important contribution to the detective story is Hunted Down. Queen's Quorum #4 says: "A fascinating tale of realistic detection still technically rewarding to all students of the genre. Inspired by the career of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright the infamous prisoner the story transforms real life into "exquisite" Victorian melodrama." Housed in a matching brown cloth slipcase. A beautiful choice item. T. B. Peterson & Brothers, [1861]. hardcover
1870376295London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First edition first issue. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 12 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes bound in. viii 190 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rebound half modern brown calf and marbled boards stamped in gilt on spine. All fore edges marbled slightly tanned. Light foxing throughout. Two pages advertising various editions of Dickens works at rear. First edition first issue. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 12 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes bound in. viii 190 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A desirable copy of Dickens' last book. Originally intended to be issued in twelve parts starting April 1870 the serialization was interrupted after the sixth installment by Dickens' untimely death on June 9 1870. This first edition of Drood in book form was released on August 31 1870 with all known first issue points present. Smith 16; Podeschi Gimbel Collection A155 Chapman and Hall unknown
