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18439393.3London: Wiley & Putnam 1843. 1st edition NCBEL III 822; Gimbel H490; Kitton 534. Late 19th C. 3/4 green morocco binding by Riviere & Son with marbled paper boards. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Spine panel mildly sun-darkened. Bookplate of "C. E. Stewart". A handsome VG copy. 392 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Wood's attempt to make a 'splash' using as a foil Dickens' account of his trip to the US in 1842 which was seen as less than flattering on this side of the Atlantic. According to Gimbel & the NCBEL the London edition precedes the US edition. Wiley & Putnam hardcover books
18839570London: J. W. Jarvis & Son 1883. 1st edition NCBEL III 789. Green cloth binding; original grey wrappers bound in. VG bpt/front hinge starting - lower 3"/bump to center edge of rear board. Pailthorpe etching of Sam Weller as frontis. 8vo. <br/><br/> J. W. Jarvis & Son hardcover books
1866279411London: Bell and Daldy 1866. New Edition with Additions. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Works by the popular 19th century poet who began her careers writing for Dickens' Household Words and All the Year Round.~Legends and Lyrics was first published in 1858 a few years before her death from tuberculosis. This "New Edition" published after her death contains an Introduction by Dickens. This copy in full polished calf with double rule in gold and single rule in blind to the perimeters of the boards; raised bands with decorations blocked in gold and red and green morocco labels. Some scattered foxing to the preliminary pages. Armorial bookplate. Very Good binding. Bell and Daldy unknown books
189017708Troy NY: Nims and Knight 1890. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . I.M. Gaugengigl and T.V. Chominski. Handsome 1890 edition of the Dickens classic issued in a larger Quarto format and lavishly illustrated thruout in full-page black-and-white and copper etchings by I.M. Gaugengigl and T.V. Chominski. All etchings in pristine condition and all including their original tissue-guards. The book is solid and VG in its duotone cloth with bright gilt-titling and decorative flourishes along the front panel and spine. A touch of light soiling to the panels otherwise clean as could be and internally very sharp with no writing or markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this impressive late 19th century American edition published out of Troy NY. <br/><br/> Nims and Knight hardcover books
1842014425Chapman & Hall 1842. Book. Near Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 2Volumes 3/4 Leather Near Fine First Editions 1847 Rare In This Condition Excellent Fresh Copies. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books
186521431Berlin: E. Linde & Co. 1865. CDV photograph of an older Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 English novelist of the Victorian period; with the E. Linde & Co. Berlin studio stamp on back of card mount; no date circa 1865 albumen; approx. 4" x 2 1/2" overall size; light wear; dried paste-glue residue on back; old penciled identifier on front; good condition. Good. E. Linde & Co. unknown books
1866291446London: Chapman and Hall 1866. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An inexpensive edition of the five Christmas Books in the publisher's green cloth binding. The boards are embossed and the spine is stamped in gilt. A clipping about the "Religious Character of Dickens" is pasted to the front endpapers. Quite a pleasant copy. Very Good binding. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1870WN6163London: Chapman & Hall 1870. Light blue wraps with black cover drawings. Parts are chipped and foxed but are housed in red chemise and slipcase which has provided protection. Black label on chemise is gilt lettered Label is chipped on edges chemise is a little soiled but very sturdy. Very collectible. Original Parts 6. Paper Wraps. Fair/No Dust Jackets. Illus. by S.L. Fildes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Chapman & Hall Paperback books
1857011323Bradbury and Evans 1857. Book. Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. All First Edition Points.3/4 Brown Leather with Marble Boards.Beautiful Copy. White Pages little foxing. Gorgeous Copy. Bradbury and Evans Hardcover books
183816547London: Richard Bentley 1838. Full leather. Near Fine. George Cruikshank. The 1838 true 1st edition with no border to "The Last Song" in a sumptuous light-blue full-leather binding. 5 raised bands highly-decorative gilt-ornamented compartments along the spine. Clean tight and Near Fine and internally bordering on immaculate with no writing or markings of any kind. 12mos all edges gilt full-page illustrations thruout by the great George Cruikshank. Also includes a handsome custom-made blue-cloth slipcase housing the set. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
18382896071838. Half Leather. Fair binding. Two issues bound in one of the Museum of Foreign Literature Science and Art with parts of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. Foxing throughout spots of soiling to the endpapers and corner of loss to the front flyleaf. Front joint fully cracked but holding with surface wear and loss to the corners of the boards and edges of the spine. Half sheepskin over marbled paper boards. Fair binding. unknown books
18382269New York: James Turney 1838. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. 1838 1st 1 Vol. American edition. Bound in 3/4 dark morocco over marbled boards. A well-preserved VG copy with light scuffing along the spine and leather tips. 5 raised bands gilt-compartments bright gilt-lettering to spine. Thick octavo 607 pgs. 54 illustrations by Phiz and others. New endpapers--including beautiful marbled front free endpaper. Back hinge starting but still firmly in place. Attractive vintage Dickens centenary stamp 1812-1912 to front pastedown. <br/><br/> James Turney hardcover books
1843125019London: Chapman and Hall 1843-48. Complete set of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Octavo 5 volumes original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a tenth edition with the half-title printed in blue title-page printed in red and blue verso printed in blue hand-colored etched frontispiece and three hand-colored etched plates by John Leech four wood-engravings in-text by W.J. Linton after Leech 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Second edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year with the half-title engraved frontispiece and pictorial vignette title page. First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home with half-title frontispiece and vignette title page second state ad leaf. First edition of the Battle of Life: A Love Story with half-title advertisements frontispiece and fourth state vignette title page. First edition of The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time with advertisements frontispiece and vignette title page. Each volume is in near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice set. A Christmas Carol "may readily be called the Bible of Christmas It was issued about ten days before Christmas 1843 and 6000 copies were sold on the first day"Eckel 110. "It was a work written at the height of Dickens great powers which would add to his considerable fame bring a new work to the English language increase the festivities at Christmastime and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor" John Mortimer. "Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks A Christmas Carol was the first of Dickens Christmas books a new literary genre thus created incidentally it was an extraordinary achievementthe one great Christmas myth of modern literature." Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1843104873London: Chapman and Hall 1843-48. Complete set of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Octavo 5 volumes bound in the original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a sixth edition with the half-title printed in blue title-page printed in red and blue verso printed in blue hand-colored etched frontispiece and three hand-colored etched plates by John Leech four wood-engravings in-text by W.J. Linton after Leech 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. In very good condition with a contemporary gift inscription to the verso of the front panel. First edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year with the advertisement half-title engraved frontispiece and additional first state pictorial vignette title page. In near fine condition. First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home with half-title frontispiece and vignette title page with tissue guard present first state ad leaf. In near fine condition with ownership inscriptions. First edition of the Battle of Life: A Love Story with half-title advertisements frontispiece and fourth state vignette title page. In near fine condition with an autograph letter bound in and period catalogue descriptions affixed to the half-title. First edition of The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time with advertisements frontispiece and vignette title page. A nice set. A Christmas Carol "may readily be called the Bible of Christmas It was issued about ten days before Christmas 1843 and 6000 copies were sold on the first day"Eckel 110. "It was a work written at the height of Dickens great powers which would add to his considerable fame bring a new work to the English language increase the festivities at Christmastime and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor" John Mortimer. "Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks A Christmas Carol was the first of Dickens Christmas books a new literary genre thus created incidentally it was an extraordinary achievementthe one great Christmas myth of modern literature." Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18467350London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1846 1st edition 2nd state including "New Edition of Oliver Twist" followed by 3 lines in italics at the rear. Well-preserved and VG in its red cloth with bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and bright decorative gilt-flourishes and lettering along the spine. Very light soiling at the panels and mild darkening to the spine. Internally very clean with the lightest soiling at the endapers and the slightest hint of limited spotting. 16mo 174 pgs. all edges gilt. The book is wrapped in a custom-made linen dustjacket with leather spine labels and beyond that is housed in a custom-made slipcase. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
189013277London: Chapman and Hall 1890. Full leather. Very Good . R. Seymour and "Phiz". A wonderful Presentation copy of this 1890 re-issue bound and signed by the binder in full calf by Morrell of London. Included with this copy are 26 mounted photographs most of them signed by the actors of characters from a local production of "The Pickwick Papers" put on by the "Ipswich Suffolk England Presbyterian Acting Guild". There's also a bound-in Presentation page thanking a Mr. Herbert Walker for his 4 years of leadership and signed by the members of the Ipswich Presbyterian Guild. A clean very sharp copy to boot. Tight and VG to Near Fine with very light scuffing to the front panel mild wear at the foot of the spine and very light foxing internally though not affecting the plates at all and along the fore-edge. Thick octavo nicely illustrated thruout in addition to the 26 photos by R. Seymour and "Phiz" <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1900286423London; Paris; New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Children's Stories from Dickens edited by Edric Vredenburg and illustrated by Frances Brundage Harold Copping and J. Willis Grey. With twelve color plates and additional in text illustrations. Personal inscription on the half title. Slightly cocked with minor shelfwear. Quarter red cloth with pictorial glazed paper boards. Very Good. Very Good binding. Raphael Tuck & Sons unknown books
1837288239London: John Macrone 1837. Second Series. Quarter Leather. Good binding. First Edition Second Issue of Charles Dickens' first published book. Lacking the half title 'Contents' leaf and publisher's advertisement at the rear. With frontispiece; additional title page engraved; and eight additional plates. Foxing to the plates and opposite pages. Rubbing to the boards; loss to the top edge of the spine and to the spine label. Half calf with remnants of a black leather label over marbled paper boards. All edges marbled. John C. Eckel First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens 12-13 pp. Good binding. John Macrone unknown books
1882288119New York London & Paris: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with sixteen color plates. Title page engraved with printer's device on the front endpaper. Contemporary inscription on the front pastedown in pencil. Minor wear to the joints and some loss to the extremities of the spine and corners of the boards. Pictorial paper covered boards. Very Good binding. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co unknown books
1875244444New York: New York Book Concern 1875. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Thomas Nast; C. S. Reinhart; W. L. Sheppard; Thoma. The Harper & Brothers editions of most of the major works of Charles Dickens from the Pickwick Papers to A Tale of Two Cities. Issued with 70 parts in 38 fascicles by the New York Book Concern. Bound in the original New York Book Concern's blue paper wrappers. Conditions of publication from rear panel: "The work will be issued in Semi-monthly Parts. Each 25 cents. Part will contain 48 pages of double column letter-press profusely illustrated. The 50 cent Parts will contain 96 pages with double the number of illustrations. No subscriber's name will be taken for less than the entire work." A couple of fascicles have covers which have been gingerly reattached and several have wear at the spine; in general they are in Very Good or Good condition. A nice and scarce item for the Dickens collector.~~The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with fifty-two illustrations by Thomas Nast pt. 1 - 7/8; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby with fifty-two illustrations by C. S. Reinhart pt. 7/8 - 15/16; Dombey and Son with fifty-two illustrations by W. L. Sheppard pt. 15/16 - 21/22; The Old Curiosity Shop illustrated by Thomas Worth pt. 21/22 - 27/28; The Personal History of David Copperfield with a Portrait of the Author and Sixty-one illustrations by J. Barnard pt. 27/28 - 35/36; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit with Fifty-nine illustrations by J. Barnard pt. 35/36 - 41/42; Little Dorrit with fifty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney pt. 41/42 - 49/50; Bleak House with sixty-one illustrations by F. Barnard pt. 49/50 - 57/58; The Adventures of Oliver Twist with Twenty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney pt. 57/58 - 61/62; Barnaby Rudge with Forty-four illustrations by J. Barnard pt. 61/62 - 67/68; A Tale of Two Cities with over Forty illustrations by American and English Artists pt. 67/68 - 69/70. Very Good binding. New York Book Concern unknown books
1879D7974London: Frank Kerslake 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Black cloth original blue printed wraps bound in; 8vo; pp. i-viii 9-88 plus frontis. and bookdealer's ad tipped to verso of the original front cover. Spine chipped and torn; corners bumped; original front wrap and first 4 leaves detached a bit brittle and very lightly chipped along the edges. A good working copy of this useful first edition of the first bibliography on Dickens. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Frank Kerslake hardcover books
1837144181837. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches by other authors from Bentley's Miscellany and The Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Blanchard 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First Edition of this early collection of tales by various authors -- which constitutes one of Dickens's earliest American appearances in book form. According to Podeschi 2000 copies were printed in April 1837. This Dickens tale was not collected in an all-Dickens volume until ten years after his death -- in THE MUDFOG PAPERS 1880. Also included in this volume is "An Evening of Visits" by "J. Fennimore Cooper Esq. sic". This volume is in very good-plus condition closed tear in front free endpaper rose cloth faded as always slight rubbing of the spine label; one cannot encounter these Philadelphia volumes from the 1830s in much better condition. Podeschi Yale B44; Carr U of Texas B551. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1837141491837. Together with Other Tales by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition being a volume in the "Library of Fiction" limited to 1000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale by Dickens followed by nine other tales by other writers. This is the only one of "Boz"'s tales that having appeared in a British periodical did not then appear in one of the two book series of SKETCHES BY BOZ see Smith I p. 15 note 2. Instead it appeared in the British "Library of Fiction" in April 1836 and was not included in SKETCHES BY BOZ until that title was issued in monthly parts Nov 1837 through June 1839. In America Carey Lea & Blanchard published SKETCHES BY BOZ second series a month or two after this -- not including "Tuggs's" -- and then combined "Tuggs's" into a reprint of that volume in June of the same year. This is a good-plus copy general soil and edge-wear notably to the rear joint label rubbed but still legible half of rear free endpaper missing. This is acceptable condition for a book that is so scarce in its original binding -- as these 1830s Philadelphia volumes were bound up using extremely delicate cheap materials. Podeschi Yale B1; Wilkins p. 11 reference to the "Select Library of Fiction". Housed in a clamshell case with leather label. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1852140941225London: Bradbury & Evans 1852. First Edition. Very Good. 1852 1853 1854 but 1851-1853. Three volumes. First edition in book form. Bound without ads in half crushed red morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. Bindings lightly rubbed spines faded owner names and bookplates at front. Dickens' anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical history of England written for children. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1854143931854. in Two Volumes. Boston: Jenks Hickling & Swan 1854. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. Early American edition just possibly the first complete one. Since Harper published the two volumes of its edition separately in March 1853 and in March 1854 so dated on the title pages it is considered to be the first American edition. The date in 1854 when these two Boston volumes were published is unknown so it is possible that this two-volume Boston edition came out earlier in 1854 than Harper's second volume. Jenks Hickling & Swan was a very "fluid" enterprise at the time such that their 1856 and 1857 two-volumes-in-one printings would be by Hickling Swan & Brown and their 1861 two-in-one printing would be by Swan Brewer & Tileston. This set is in very good-plus condition a few small holes in the cloth mainly at extremities or at joints; the gilt on the spines is unusually bright. Smith pp 116-119; Carr UTexas B500 in blue cloth; not cited by Podeschi. Provenance: both front free endpapers bear not only a contemporary signature but also the penciled signature of Dickens bibliographer Walter Smith; in fact this very copy is the one pictured on pages 117 and 118 of his book. unknown books
