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185621616Boston: Hickling Swan & Brown 1856. First Thus. Two 12mo volumes bound in one as issued; original brown blind-embossed cloth pictorial spine stamped in gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed with corners showing some small losses to cloth at spine foot else Very Good and sound. Contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown Joseph M. Smith. First American single-volume edition. Hickling, Swan & Brown unknown books
18544125London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy in original cloth with publisher's marbled edges and endpapers. Slight bit of sunning to spines but overall in beautiful unsophisticated condition. Collation and issue points conforming to Smith. Bookplates of two previous owners to front pastedowns of each. Internally clean and unmarked. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. A superior copy accompanied by an early James F. Drake description.<br/><br/>As the only book Dickens wrote specifically for children it occupies a unique place in his' oeuvre. "Dickens' intention for the book was made manifest in the dedication at the beginning of the first volume to his 'own dear children: Whom I hope it may help bye-and-bye to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject.' This makes the purpose clear. Dickens did not intend the book to supplant or rival those books by Keightley or Macaulay that preceded it. The book rather is intended by Dickens as an exciting or interesting study of the subject which will whet his children's -- and other children's -- appetites for English history and is designed to act as a springboard to discovery" Tearle. Thus while Dickens doesn't break new ground in uncovering or analyzing history he uses his novelistic abilities to make past figures feel more real more exciting and more present and to cast long-ago events as relevant to life in his own time. Fine. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1844140941524New York: Carey & Hart 1844. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt illustrated with four hand-colored lithograph plates and four uncolored. Very Good with lean to spine. Cloth a little mottled and rubbed edge-worn with shallow chipping at spine and some loss to joints. Former owner names to preliminary pages and two owner bookplates to front paste down. Pages toned and occasionally spotted one uncolored illustration is creased. Carey & Hart unknown books
18442101009Harper & Brothers 1844. first. wrappers. very good. First US edition. Rare in original wrappers. Closed tear at left edge of front cover to spine from bottom to middle. Pieces missing at rear cover and last two pages some wear. Item very good. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1902311323East Aurora New York: The Roycrofters 1902. No. 91 of 100 on Japan vellum signed "Elbert Hubbard. Frontispiece portrait. Color title-page headbands and tailpieces designed by Samuel Warner. Publisher's deluxe three quarter brown morocco gilt foliate spine t.e.g. Near fine in original marbled paper-covered fleece-lined box with printed label some soiling to box. Warner Samuel. No. 91 of 100 on Japan vellum signed "Elbert Hubbard" Frontispiece portrait. Color title-page headbands and tailpieces designed by Samuel Warner. McKenna 75; Gimbel B131 green limp leather The Roycrofters unknown books
1312690Kansas City: Hallmark Cards Inc. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-hardcover with no dust jacket; book is ex-library with classification marks on two of the pages; off white spine with gold text; boards have moderate smudges to the corners but strong; text block has minor foxing on some pages but clean and legible. 1312690. FP New Rockville Stock. Hallmark Cards, Inc hardcover books
19852305682Rexdale: B. Mitchell 1985. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Worsley John. Ink inscripion on endpaper. Newspaper clipping on Dickens laid in resulting in slight discoloration to page. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Ebenezer Scrooge a miser learns about the true meaning of Christmas from the ghost of his business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past Present and Future. B. Mitchell hardcover books
18439027004London: Chapman and Hall 1843. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in publisher's original red orange cloth with blind stamped covers and front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Four hand-colored plates by John Leech and four black and white wood engravings by W. J. Linton. A Christmas Carol has had an involved publishing history much to the delight of bibliographical detectives. According to John Eckel it was publishedon December 19th 1843 and sold 6000 copies on the first day. Before the end of the year eleven days later it was in the third edition with the combined number of copies of the second and third editions being estimated at only two to three thousand copies. This means that the second and third editions were at least two to three times scarcer than the first although not as complicated with the three states and trial copies that distinguished the first edition. During the haste of the early stages of production Dickens was trying to determine exactly how he wanted the book to appear and experimented with the color of end papers with red blue green and yellow eventually settling on yellow. On the title page he experimented with red green and blue eventually settling on red and blue as his preference. There were many textual errors corrected mostly in the second edition although not entirely. Binding variants were yet another issue. This copy has the title page printed in red and blue with the words "Third Edition" printed in blue. The end papers are yellow. This copy has the heading "Stave I" which was eventually changed to "Stave One." An error on page 49 line 2 was uncorrected remaining so in the third edition. It involved "and-bye ways" the hyphen being misplaced. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1844180718001New York: Carey & Hart 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt illustrated with four hand-colored lithograph plates and four uncolored. Near Fine. A beautiful copy with cloth lightly rubbed with light wear at the corners and spine ends faint water splash to top edge of front cover ding across top edge. Previous owner name to title page and erased pencil to front end sheet and occasional age spotting to pages. Quite a remarkable example of this classic Dickens novel uncommon with the original cloth in such nice condition and housed in a custom clamshell case. Carey & Hart hardcover books
1910233079Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1910. 196 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth decorated in gold. About Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 196 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. IN DJ NOT IN GIMBEL. Carr B-369 copy inscribed "Christmas 1910;" not in Gimbel Henry Altemus Company unknown books
146247Philadelphia: Lippincott. Limited. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. Color frontispiece and 11 other mounted color plates by Arthur Rackham. Many b/w line drawings. 4to white vellum pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Uncut edges t.e.g. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott no date 1915.<br/><br/> Limited Edition - one of only 100 copies signed by Rackham. An absolutely fine bright copy except for the missing silk ties.<br/><br/> Lippincott unknown books
19392312541New York: Pocket Books 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brazelton Julian. Collector's Edition. Lacks publisher's pamphlet. Light general wear. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas commonly known as A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder gentler man. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions including carols and newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School one of several establishments for London's street children. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. There is discussion among academics as to whether this is a fully secular story or if it is a Christian allegory. Published on 19 December the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. Most critics reviewed the novella favourably. The story was illicitly copied in January 1844; Dickens took legal action against the publishers who went bankrupt further reducing Dickens's small profits from the publication. He went on to write four other Christmas stories in subsequent years. In 1849 he began public readings of the story which proved so successful he undertook 127 further performances until 1870 the year of his death. A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film stage opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas including family gatherings seasonal food and drink dancing games and a festive generosity of spirit."--Wikipedia Pocket Books hardcover books
1930WRCLIT83432New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1930. Small folio. Publisher's Half vellum and green cloth t.e.g. gilt label. Endsheets a bit tanned at gutters with minuscule isolated rust mark to rear free endsheet upper forecorners of boards worn leather spine label chipped internally a very good copy. One of a total edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by George W. Van Vechten Jr. and Charles H. Richards in Van Krimpen's Dutch Lutetia on Tarazona papers. Initials by W.A. Dwiggins. Copies were published in two different bindings the other being 3/4 green morocco. AUCHINCLOSS 9. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
194022653New York: Holiday House 1940. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth spine and illustrated boards with paper spine label in original glassine overwrapper. Fine. Philip Reed. 148 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Printed at Chicago by the Monastery Hill Press with color lithograph drawings by Philip Reed. Almost as new copy. Holiday House hardcover books
1902293770East Aurora: Roycroft 1902. hardcover. fine. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Decorative title page printed throughout in red & black. 143pp. Slim 8vo handsomely rebound full burgundy morocco decorative gilt spine uncut edges. East Aurora: Roycroft 1902. Fine.<br/><br/> Roycroft unknown books
1940014022New York: Monastery Hill Press 1940. Top edge gilt. Gilt-panelled spine. Covers bordered by twin double-ruled fillets corner holly berries. Central front cover inlay of Mr. Fezziwig in a jaunty dancing pose using four different colors of leather. Chapter heads and text illustrations in block color technique. A beautiful edition of this Christmas classic. 148pp. First Reed Edition. Full Crimson Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Philip Reed. Small Octavo. Monastery Hill Press Hardcover books
1848100525Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz jun 1848. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century purple cloth gilt; spine faded. A bit of scattered foxing. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Tauchnitz Editions of Dickens' Christmas Books. A brilliant Sammelband of the first Tauchnitz editions of Dickens's Christmas books each set from advance proofs and issued essentially simultaneously with the first London editions. Todd & Bowden Tauchnitz A1Ab A3a A5a A6 A9a Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun unknown 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
1846100485Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun 1846. First collected Tauchnitz edition. Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece by John Leech to Christmas Carol. General title-age series half-title half-titles to each story. 8vo 5-7/8 x 4-1/8 in.; 150 x 104 mm. Slight foxing throughout. Publisher's half calf gilt. Rubbed. First collected Tauchnitz edition. Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece by John Leech to Christmas Carol. General title-age series half-title half-titles to each story. 8vo 5-7/8 x 4-1/8 in.; 150 x 104 mm. Collected Tauchnitz edition compiled from the separate printings of the first three Dickens Christmas books. Todd & Bowden Tauchnitz 91Aa; Gimbel/Podeschi D3 Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun unknown books
2004SKU1029058Sterling Publishing 2004-03-25. PAPERBACK. Very Good. 1593080336 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Sterling Publishing paperback books
WRCLIT40757Mount Vernon NY: Peter Pauper Press nd. Decorated boards. Illustrated. Ink gift inscription spine darkened else very good in defective slipcase. Peter Pauper Press 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
184446689New-York: Harper & Brothers 1844. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 31pp. Lacking wrappers and first leaf advertisements and blank rear leaf separated but present textblock unevenly toned closed tear to spine edge of textblock slightly touching text throughout; Good or better only. Later impression of an early American edition this conforming to GIMBEL A81 fourth copy also lacking wrappers and first leaf. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1844100522Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. First American edition. Title-page printed in red and blue half-title printed in blue handcolored lithographed frontispiece and 3 handcolored lithographed plates after John Leech by P. S. Duval 4 wood-engraved plates after Leech. 12mo. Publisher's rib-grain purple cloth covers blind-panelled spine gilt in close imitation of the Chapman and Hall design white endpapers plain edges; spine faded head and foot of spine and corners trifle worn; ; some very light browning to text. Contemporary signature of Mary Belknap on recto of frontispiece. First American edition. Title-page printed in red and blue half-title printed in blue handcolored lithographed frontispiece and 3 handcolored lithographed plates after John Leech by P. S. Duval 4 wood-engraved plates after Leech. 12mo. First American Edition. In this issue the frontispiece like that of the Tauchnitz edition is the plate of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge. In the gift-binding issue the frontispiece plate is "Mr. Fezziwig's Ball" as in the first London edition. Gimbel/Podeschi A80 Carey & Hart unknown books
184454100New York: Harper & Brothers 1844. Second American edition later impression Preface on verso of title page. Text in two columns. Pp. 3-4 5-32. Lacking first leaf ads and blank verso. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Text a bit browned early owner's ink signature on title page. Very good. Second American edition later impression Preface on verso of title page. Text in two columns. Pp. 3-4 5-32. Lacking first leaf ads and blank verso. 1 vols. 8vo. The First New York Christmas Carol. Issued in wrappers this unauthorized Harper's Christmas Carol was preceded by the Philadelphia edition Carey & Hart of the same year. Gimbel A81 third copy Harper & Brothers unknown books
