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193466213DICKENS Charles. DOR… Gustave illustrator. Scrapbook Containing The Life of Our Lord. A children's version of the Gospel written for his children by Charles Dickens.As It Apperas First Time in Print in The Courier Journal. Louisville KY: The Courier-Journal 1934. First edition. Quarto. Original brown printed paper wrappers containing the eleven daily parts. Some yellowing to papers else fine. Smith II. p.94-95. HBS 66213. $200 The Courier-Journal unknown books
185066223DICKENS Charles. CRUIKSHANK George illustrator. Sketches By Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With a Frontispice by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman and Hall 1850. First "Cheap Edition." Octavo. Original full green blindstamped cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Spine sunned and edges bumped with minor wear. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66223. $200 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
185066203DICKENS Charles. Stories from Household Words. I. The Miner's Daughters. II. Loaded Dice. New York: Stringer & Townsend 1850. First American edition in wrappers. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Some expected shelfwear and chipping to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Overall a very good copy of this fragile item. The Miner's Daughters is by William Howitt. Gimbel p. 372 HBS 66203. $200 Stringer & Townsend unknown books
184668471London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The title page vignette is in the fourth state with an angel holding the banner and no publisher's imprint. The fourth of Dickens' five Chrismas novellas. Illustrations by Daniel Maclise Richard Doyle Clarkson Standfield and John Leech. 12mo. In a late 19th century one-half brown morocco over marbled paper binding with decorative gilt stamping five raised bands a black morocco spine label and new endpapers. Period bookplate and a small bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Mild rubbing to the boards with a few very faint stains; otherwise very good. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
187315508Brattleboro: T.P. James 1873. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Very good. 488 pages. 8vo 23 x 15 cm. A Dickens novelty "by the Spirit-pen of Charles Dickens through the medium of Thomas P. James who published this work notes "An uneducated man myself I am not qualified to deny or admit the existence of grammatical errors in its composition." A statement worthy of P.T. Barnum; nevertheless an entertainment for believers and skeptics alike and an unusual Dickens item. Backstrip chipped head and foot tail extremities rubbed. Interior contents very clean bright and firm. Owner inscription. T.P. James hardcover books
1856217916London: Chapman and Hall 1856. Later edition. Engraved title page and frontispiece. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne "Phiz". xiv 2 609 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half brown morocco and marbled boards some wear to top of front cover else very good. Later edition. Engraved title page and frontispiece. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne "Phiz". xiv 2 609 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
186819603.1Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1868. 1st appearance Edgar & Vail p. 30. Period red half-sheep binding with marbled boards. A Gd copy binding edges & extremities rubbed/lacks ffep/bpt. iv 762 pp for entire volume. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Dickens' story appears in the January March April & May issues. Ticknor & Fields hardcover books
18504967.5London: Chapman & Hall 1850. 1st Cheap edition in volume form. Period tan half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Modest shelf wear. Period pos to ffep. Light foxing to end sheets. A VG copy. xiv 2 303 1 blank pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847 with Pickwick Papers in weekly monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format and illustrated solely with a frontispiece and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
18504967.2London: Chapman & Hall 1850. 1st Cheap edition in volume form. Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. VG contemporary prior owner sig on blank front fly/sp sunned/printing flaw horizontal crease through publisher imprint on tp & next three leaves. xiv 2 303 1 blank pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847 with Pickwick Papers in weekly monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format and illustrated solely with a frontispiece and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
18504967.3London: Chapman & Hall 1850. 1st Cheap edition in volume form. Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. VG contemporary prior owner sig on h-t pg/sp sunned/hd & tail of spine shows some chipping & fraying. xiv 2 303 1 blank pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847 with Pickwick Papers in weekly monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format and illustrated solely with a frontispiece and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1913216147London: Chapman and Hall 1913. First edition Number 222 of 750 copies. Engraved frontispiece facsimiles and engravings.xviii 296 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown clotht.e.g. rest uncut. A Fine copy bookplate of Sir Herbert Leon Bart. & Claude. First edition Number 222 of 750 copies. Engraved frontispiece facsimiles and engravings.xviii 296 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1928210842New York: Edgar H. Wells & Co 1928. First edition. Number 306 of 440 copies signed by Eckel and Newton. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine. First edition. Number 306 of 440 copies signed by Eckel and Newton. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Edgar H. Wells & Co unknown books
18401059908vo in sixes. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841. 8vo in sixes 3 vols bound in one: 4 i-iv 306; i-vi 306; i-vi 426 pp. Full polished calf gilt pannelled backstrip with red and green labels covers with double gilt fillet gilt-roll on turn-ins all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Old crease on title pages clean covers with several marks and scuffs backstrip somewhat worn yet handsome. § Later edition in book form of this collection -- consisting primarily of "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge" -- which was first published in 88 weekly parts and twenty monthly ones. Eckel p. 63. Podeschi A51. Smith 6. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1873708.6New York: E. J. Hale 1873. Early printing of the volume edition Gimbel D67. Contemporary tan half-calf professionally rebacked with marbled board eps & edges. Black leather spine label modern. Overall VG. 564 pp. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> E. J. Hale hardcover books
193320598Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1933. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two volumes 7.5 x 11.5 inches bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt. Number 1187 of an edition of 1500 sets signed by Austen on the colophon. A very fine set in near fine dust jackets minor chipping to top edges. Slipcase is scuffed and has two bumped spots with loss of outer paper at those spots. Oversized: shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
20052306414Madison Park Press 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Leech; Maclise; Doyle; Stanfield. Includes publisher's box as well as what appears to be the original cardboard shipping box. A couple corners of box slightly bruised. An exceptional set. 2005 Hard Cover. xiv 482 pp. 8vo. Seven works by Charles Dickens in six volumes reproduced in facsimile from the Nonesuch limited editions. Includes: Bleak House; Christmas Books A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man; David Copperfield; Great Expectations / Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby; Oliver Twist. Madison Park Press hardcover books
18458695New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First American Edition. Half calf. Very good. 12mo. 2iv100pp. BOUND WITH: Duff Gordon Lady Trans. and editor. THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS. I. A Soldier of the Foreign Legion. II. The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader. New York: Wiley and Putnam. 1845. x178pp. BOUND WITH: Dickens Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1846. vii1184pp. The three works bound together in cont. half calf ornately gilt spines. Hinges a bit rubbed but quite sound. First American editions of three works published by Wiley and Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading." The first 2 have a half-title identifying the series the Dickens title does not but it does not seem to call for a half-title. The series note was on the original wrappers or cloth. The first two works are both fiction. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
2836.1Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers n. d. Ca 1855. Early US appearance of 'Hard Times'. Original publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & figure; boards stamped with geometric design professionally recased. Bright yellow eps. Square & tight. Period pos to ffep. A VG copy. 223 1 pp. Text double column. Nickleby portrait as frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains "The Seven Poor Travellers" "Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire" "Hard Times" "Lizzie Leigh" "The Miner's Daughters" and "Fortune Wilfred." The latter three wrongly ascribed to Dickens; "Lizzie Leigh" by Mrs. Gaskell and "Miner's Daughter " by Wm Howitt. According to Eckel the author of "Fortune Wilfred" remains a mystery cf. Eckel pp 209 - 210. T. B. Peterson & Brothers hardcover books
185832748London: Bradbury & Evans 1858. 1st Cheap edition in volume form. Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. Slight lean. Spine panel sunned. Old repair to top 1" of rear joint. Lacks ffep with old brown tape reinforcement to hinge. A Gd copy. 324 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847 with Pickwick Papers in weekly monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format illustrated solely with a frontispiece and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
185029471.1London: Chapman & Hall 1850. 1st 'Cheap' edition in book form NCBEL III 792. Period plain green vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine remainder binding. Plain paper eps. Cocked. Front hinge starting. Prior owner inscription to ffep. Some foxing. A VG copy. xii 291 1 pp. Text double column. Frontis by George Cruikshank; engraved by T. Bolton. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works with a new preface by Dickens; begun in 1847 with Pickwick Papers the edition was issued both in weekly and monthly formats as well as a one-volume edition. The "Cheap" edition is characterized by the double column format and illustrated solely with a frontispiece. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
190844501New York & London: George D. Sproul 1908. "Autograph Edition". 1st edition thus Gimbel D-148; NCBEL III 784. SIGNED by Dowden. Limited to 250 cc. Original maroon publishers' buckram with printed paper title label to spine. TEG. Spines a tad sunned. Evidence of light damping primarily to lower edge of Vol II. Withal a VG set. 2 volumes xxxiii 3 373 1 blank; xvi 407 pp including Index. Each volume with an original frontispiece by William Rainey R.I. SIGNED by Rainey Close to 100 additional inserted illustrations including all the originals by Phiz as well as others by Federick Barnard et al. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> George D. Sproul hardcover books
7217Signed pen-n-ink color drawing in the style of 'Kyd' Joseph Clayton Clarke. The artist is not known to us. Fine. Image: 7" x 4-5/8". Frame: 14" x 11-1/4" <br/><br/>Gamp a very colorful and popular character from Dickens' 'Martin Chuzzlewit'. The artist's rendition has her in a light blue smcok sporting as might be expected a 'Rudolph' type nose. Underneath 'Sairey' is the quote "Ah what a blessed thing / it is to be contented." unknown books
187143087.1London: Trübner & Co 1871. 1st UK edition. The Edward Daost copy. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering & front board blocked in black. Overall VG professionally rebacked/spine cloth a bit dull/period pos to preliminary front blank. 152 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Bookplate of Clara B. and Edward C. Daoust to first pastedown. Trübner & Co hardcover books
199544489Westport: Greenwood Press 1995. 1st edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Pictorial eps. No dust jacket. Spine push. VG. 3 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Greenwood Press hardcover books
2373London: Willougby n. d. Ca 1845. Originally first published in 1839. Orig red cloth with elabore gilt stamped design to spine. Some wear with spine gilt a bit dull. A Very Good copy. 628 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Willougby hardcover books