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187067791London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First edition in book form early issue. Leather Bound. Very Good. S. L. Fildes. 190pp. Octavo 21.5 cm Bound in a contemporary Bayntun binding of full brown leather with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine the publication date at the foot of the spine and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Half title vignette. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. Spine labels absent. Light rubbing to the extremities. Faint numerical notation to front free endpaper. Tiny loss to the top fore-edge corners of pp. 101-106. Lacks publisher's catalogue at rear. Eckel p. 96-98. Smith Part I: 16. With all the internal flaws listed in Smith with the exception of the last flaw. With twelve illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes and a portrait.<br /> <br /> Dickens' final and unfinished novel. Dickens died after having written six parts one-half of which were published. John C. Eckel writes "The solution of the plot was never disclosed and this stamps 'Drood' as one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature. Chapman and Hall unknown
185067740London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First edition in book form first issue. Leather Bound. Very Good. H. K. Browne. 624pp. Octavo 21.5 cm Bound in a contemporary Bayntun binding of full brown leather with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine the publication date at the foot of the spine and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Half title vignette. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. The spine label with the author's name is detached but tucked in. Light rubbing to the extremities. Minor numerical notation to front free endpaper. Small dark patches on p. 275 and the recto of the plate opposite from the spine label having been tucked in. The plate titled "Mr. Peggotty's Dream Comes True" is facing p. 496 rather than p. 512. 1850 date on both title pages. Errata with six lines. All plates present. With "recal" on first line of p. 16. Period after "and" on p. 30. Comma slightly apart from "mother" on p. 34. All other flaws called out in Smith are present. Eckel pp. 77-78. Smith Part I: 9. With illustrations by H. K. Browne.<br /> <br /> David Copperfield originally appeared serially in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts. A largely biographic novel which was not hugely popular in the beginning but grew to be one of Dickens' most popular works. Dickens also thought of this work as one of his favorite works. In "David Copperfield" Dickens relates a number of significant early personal experiences including his work in a factory his schooling and reading and his development into a successful novel writer. Bradbury & Evans unknown
1972306577First edition so stated. 4to. Illustrated with b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket designed by Nick Frank unclipped with sticker over the price. Very good. 249 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Boldly signed and inscribed by James Cagney in black ink to author Roy Moseley on the front free endpaper: "For Roy Moseley - all good wishes - Sincerely - Jim Cagney." Provenance: from the collection of author Roy Moseley. The Citadel Press hardcover
201738275Ogdensburg NY: Caliban Press 2017. Fine. Number 63 of about 110 copies signed and numbered by the highly regarded book artist and printer Mark McMurray. This is a beautifully produced new edition of A Christmas Carol that captures the power of this timeless story through the inventive use of text images paper type and binding. McMurray writes in the prospectus: "We know the story we know the characters but the language of the text offers new rewards with each reading. This edition of Dickens' classic returns to the dark sleep-deprived angst of the original complete text." The prospectus states that the text in this edition comes from the 1843 edition with minor corrections. Printed on a variety of handmade and mould-made papers including Zerkal Ingres and papers from La Papeterie-St. Armand. The text is printed entirely from metal and wood types including monotype Bell plus many from the 19th century. There are wonderful images of the ghosts that visit Scrooge on that fateful night and many other ornaments and designs throughout. They are done in various media including pochoir collage wood engraving and relief blocks. Bound in black ribbed flexible covers with a red morocco leather spine with title in gilt on spine and inside a cutout on the front cover. Housed in a stiff black paper slipcase with a subtle chain design. In fine condition. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. 107 pages. PRI/121725. Caliban Press unknown
24580No place or date. 1940s London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Three items: a page with a quotation from Dickens and list of characters in MP’s autograph; and two copies of the speech. Text entirely legible throughout but on worn and creased paper MP is not named as the author but the item is undoubtedly his work: one of the two copies has autograph emendations in pencil. ONE: Typed Notes for ‘Dickens Fellowship Speech’. 2pp 4to. Begins: ‘Comment on previous speaker’s points. / Dickens the great Englishman - more than that the great man of the Middle Classes. He championed the Poor but he believed in his own class. All his real people are not of the Aristocracy but of the Middle Classes. That is why we want him today. He would have championed us and we need a champion.’ Later: ‘If he were here today - what a Prime Minister he would make. And one could get a Cabinet from amongst his characters. Let us try to make one. With the Master himself as Prime Minister who follows’ He gives a list of characters their cabinet posts and reasons for appointment beginning with Micawber as Chancellor and ending with ‘Health. Dr Parker Peps. added in autograph: ‘NEVER HEARD OF A PATIENT GETTING WELL’ / Labour. One of the Cheeryble Brothers - or Joe the Blacksmith.’ Ends: ‘It is the privilege of thye Dickens Fellowship to pay homage to his name but he would make the whole country one great English Fellowship if he could come amongst us again.’ TWO: Second copy of One without any autograph annotations. THREE: Leaf 1p 4to with three typed lines at head giving Micawber’s celebrated ‘happiness’ and ‘misery’ speech. Beneath this in pencil autograph a list of twelve cabinet posts and names of characters to fill them pretty much repeating the suggestions in the speech.From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Three items: a page with a quotation from Dickens and list of characters in MP’s autograph; and two copies of the speech. Text entirely legible throughout but on worn and creased paper MP is not named as the author but the item is undoubtedly his work: one of the two copies has autograph emendations in pencil. ONE: Typed Notes for ‘Dickens Fellowship Speech’. 2pp 4to. Begins: ‘Comment on previous speaker’s points. / Dickens the great Englishman - more than that the great man of the Middle Classes. He championed the Poor but he believed in his own class. All his real people are not of the Aristocracy but of the Middle Classes. That is why we want him today. He would have championed us and we need a champion.’ Later: ‘If he were here today - what a Prime Minister he would make. And one could get a Cabinet from amongst his characters. Let us try to make one. With the Master himself as Prime Minister who follows’ He gives a list of characters their cabinet posts and reasons for appointment beginning with Micawber as Chancellor and ending with ‘Health. Dr Parker Peps. added in autograph: ‘NEVER HEARD OF A PATIENT GETTING WELL’ / Labour. One of the Cheeryble Brothers - or Joe the Blacksmith.’ Ends: ‘It is the privilege of thye Dickens Fellowship to pay homage to his name but he would make the whole country one great English Fellowship if he could come amongst us again.’ TWO: Second copy of One without any autograph annotations. THREE: Leaf 1p 4to with three typed lines at head giving Micawber’s celebrated ‘happiness’ and ‘misery’ speech. Beneath this in pencil autograph a list of twelve cabinet posts and names of characters to fill them pretty much repeating the suggestions in the speech. No place or date. [1940s? London.] unknown
26724Undated. Contemporary Photograph 15 x 10.5 cm good condition. Image compared with online googled images and is a slightly different angle to the closest. See Image. Undated. unknown
184809685London: Chapman & Hall 1848. First Edition. Fine. octavo two items each bound in green printed wrappers. The 8 portraits are Dombey & Carker Miss Tox Mrs. Skewton Mrs. Pipchin Old Sol & Capt. Cuttle Major Magstock Miss Nipper and Polly. The Kenyon Starling - William Self copy with their bookplates. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Fine; both items housed in a red folding case spine lettered in gilt. Fine. Chapman & Hall unknown
70178Routledge/Thoemmes Press London 1999. Five hardcover volumes octavo; hardcovers with gilt spine titles; 1607pp. 278pp. 249pp. 222pp. 466pp. 392pp. with many engraved illustrations. Mild dusting and staining of the text block edges. No dustwrappers as issued. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Dickens' novels present a variety of depictions of family life from the 'happy families' such as the Nubbles in "The Old Curiosity Shop" and the Toodles in "Dombey and Son" to the families impaired by the absence of one or more members of the nuclear group like David Copperfield who has never known his father and the motherless Paul Dombey. The 'happy families' are typically working-class industrious and equally notable for cheerfulness and cleanliness; they perhaps represent to some extent not only a democratic contrast with the failings and corruptions of middle-class families but a sentimental wish fulfilment or idealization of the kind of family that Dickens would have liked to have grown up in. His own family life had much more closely resembled the ramshackle insecure existence of the Micawbers in "David Copperfield". In all these ways and many others Dickens never ceased to explore in his imaginative writings the dynamics and tensions of family life. The outline . of his own experience of living in a family first as son and brother and later as husband and father suggests that he was exceptionally well qualified to do so." Norman Page. Routledge/Thoemmes Press, London, 1999. hardcover
12758May 1859. Four pages 12mo detached a little roughly from book some damage where bound in. It includes the explanation of "the cessation of Bradbury & Evans connection with 'Household Words'" headed "Mr. Charles Dickens and his late Publishers" discussing relationship with Dickens and his desire to publish personal revelation without consultation with the publishers. May 1859. unknown
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
1880002695Londion: Chapman and Hall 1880. Full-Leather. Complete three volume set. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in full red crushed morocco with raised bands elaborately gilt inner dentelles deep maroon endpapers and top edges gilt. Original cloth front cover and backstrip mounted on blank prelims original rear cover bound in at rear each volume. Facsimile autograph each volume as half-title. Volume I 1833-1856; Volume II 1857-1870; supplemental Volume III published in 1882 1836-1870. Index present in Vol.II and Vol. III 32 page publishers catalog appended Vol. III and errata slips extant as called for in all three volumes. Very light rubbing to tips raised bands and outer joints; rear joint on Vol. II cracked. All hinges solid and boards firmly attached. An attractive set in a quality fine binding. Podeschi D85. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
1851978Q12London: David Bogue 1851 . Cloth. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". George Cruikshank. The third edition of this charming ballad collaboration between Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank complete with the latter's amusing cartoons. The third edition. Illustrated with eleven plates. In other copies one of the plates is bound as the frontispiece however in this copy the plates are bound throughout the text. Collated complete. A charming poem by Charles Dickens the last of his collaborations with George Cruikshank. This poem began life when Cruikshank overheard a cockney version of the traditional ballad outside a public house subsequently repeating it to Dickens who revamped it into this version here. The authorship of this poem has seen a lot of debate with people believing that William Makepeace Thackeray was the author and that Dickens provided the notes and preface however it seems that Cruikshank told people that Dickens wrote the ballad for him.Illustrations by George Cruikshank the well known caricaturist. Bound the publisher's original cloth boards rebacked on full green morocco. Externally very good with rubbing to the joints and extremities. 'Lot 97' label to front board. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Internally firmly bound with bright clean pages. Very Good David Bogue hardcover
190655480London / New York: J.M. Dent & Co. / E.P. Dutton & Co 1906. Very good plus. Beautifully bound Edwardian edition of the Christmas classic featuring a Vellucent vignette binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath. After the success of A CHRISTMAS CAROL Dickens continued to produced "little Christmas books" in order to meet demand that swelled for the holiday season then as now the busiest time for booksellers. First published in 1845 CRICKET ON THE HEARTH is the third in the series featuring a drama of domestic happiness that picks up on themes from the Ghost of Christmas Past scene in A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This copy was bound by Chivers of Bath in the trademark style he developed that was also a landmark in the history of book design: the Vellucent binding. In this technique a painted design is protected by the addition of a layer of vellum so thin that it is translucent giving it the appearance of a delicate glass window. A striking copy of the beloved Victorian tale. 7'' x 4.5''. Contemporary tan morocco by Cedric Chivers stamped with elegant gilt ornaments central Vellucent title vignette to front board. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Brock with 8 full-page color plates as well as black-and-white vignettes. 171 1 pages. Slight fading to spine faint spotting to boards rubbing to vignette. Some instances of foxing to interior. Hinges firm. J.M. Dent & Co. / E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
1802839541802. DENNIE Joseph and DICKENS Asbury eds. The Port Folio: Enlarged. Vol. II no. 1 - no. 52. 16 January 1802 - 15 January 1803. Philadelphia: Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickens. Folio. 416pp. Partially unopened. Contemporary blue paper boards with paper spine nearly perished. Front board detached rear board nearly so. Water staining to first several leaves at fore-edge some foxing else very good in contemporary binding. Mott I pp. 223-246. Complete second volume of an important Federalist literary magazine founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and edited by Joseph Dennie 1768-1812 under the pen name "Oliver Oldschool Esq." Dennie is best remembered for his essay series entitled "The Lay Preacher" which were mostly didactic but not always religious. Asbury Dickens 1780-1861 was a Philadelphia bookseller and later US diplomat and politician but as a young man was involved in an unknown incident serious enough to make him flee to London in 1801 and he ended his partnership in the paper at the end of 1802. The second volume of the Port Folio contains several points of interest. Among them are John Quincy Adams' translation of Baron von Bulow's highly critical Der Freistaat von Nordamerika 1797; a dark recounting of Little Red Riding Hood in which she meets a bloody end first published in London in Tales of Terror 1801; an obituary notice for Marth Washington in the June 5th issue; and five satirical poems about Thomas Jefferson's affair with the enslaved Sally Hemmings. In subsequent years Dennis wrote scathing attacks on Jeffersonian Democracy and would be sued for seditious libel; although he was acquitted the Port Folio's critiques soon leveled off. Despite Dennie's death from cholera in 1812 the Port Folio survived until 1827 though in a monthly format. unknown
53427reading to his daughters Mamie and Katey Mamie stands behind Katey sits by him on the lawn at Gad's Hill Place taken about 1860 this print with a typeset title below 3½" x 2½" no date circa unknown
66240showing him seated nearly full length three quarter face his left arm on a table wearing a large black cravat with the letterpress account of his life to date including his family background the progress of his writings and their relation to real situations and his editing of journals with perceptive comments 8½" x 6½" in margins 15¾" x 11¾" from the Illustrated News of the World together 6 sides three blank 15¾" x 11¾" London no date circa neatly disbound John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL 1813 -1901 was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. unknown
35003decorated with four hand coloured transfer scenes from 'The Pickwick Papers' after Robert Seymour R. W. Buss and Hablot Knight Browne titled "Mr Pickwick Addresses the Club" "First Appearance of Mr Sam Weller" "Mrs Bardell faints in Mr Pickwick's arms" and "Mrs Leo Hunter's Fancy dress dejeune" these are repeated on the reverse cartouche on the base "Pickwick" and "J. & R. G." 8" x 8" no date but circa some small cracks firing crack to base chip to the exterior rim Pickwick papers Dickens' first novel was published in original parts from March 1836 to October 1837. The serialisation took off with the introduction of Sam Weller in Chapter 10 and about the same time the Potteries took up producing their themed wares for what was becoming a flourishing market. Godwin the potters thrived between the years 1834 and 1866 in Cobridge near Stoke on Trent. unknown
40825showing him head and shoulders 4" x 2½" Birmingham no date circa Robert White THRUPP 1821-1907 was a famous photographer. In 1866 his photographic studio was operating in Birmingham. He was a traveller-photographer and a friend of Joseph Paxton. unknown
40824showing him head and shoulders in an oval looking straight at the camera 4" x 2½" no place no date circa unknown
39348showing him full length seated at a table with a cloth on it holding up a book he is wearing a casual jacket and trousers and looking straight at the camera 4" x 2½" London no date circa In 1857 Dickens hired professional actresses for the play The Frozen Deep written by him and his protégé Wilkie Collins. Dickens fell in love with one of the actresses Ellen Ternan and this passion was to last the rest of his life. Dickens was 45 and Ternan 18 when he made the decision which went strongly against Victorian convention to separate from his wife Catherine in 1858divorce was still unthinkable for someone as famous as he was. When Catherine left never to see her husband again she took with her one child leaving the other children to be raised by her sister Georgina who chose to stay at Gad's Hill. In June 1862 Dickens was offered £10000 for a reading tour of Australia. He was enthusiastic and even planned a travel book The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down but ultimately decided against the tour. Two of his sons Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dicken did migrate to Australia Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales. hardcover
39347showing him three quarters length seated at a table with heavily carved legs he is leaning back reading a book his head is resting on his hand and he is wearing an overcoat 4" x 2½" London no date circa In 1857 Dickens hired professional actresses for the play The Frozen Deep written by him and his protégé Wilkie Collins. Dickens fell in love with one of the actresses Ellen Ternan and this passion was to last the rest of his life. Dickens was 45 and Ternan 18 when he made the decision which went strongly against Victorian convention to separate from his wife Catherine in 1858divorce was still unthinkable for someone as famous as he was. When Catherine left never to see her husband again she took with her one child leaving the other children to be raised by her sister Georgina who chose to stay at Gad's Hill. In June 1862 Dickens was offered £10000 for a reading tour of Australia. He was enthusiastic and even planned a travel book The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down but ultimately decided against the tour. Two of his sons Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dicken did migrate to Australia Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales. unknown
192750827New York: Frank C. Reilly 1927. 4to. 27 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations large double-page colour centerfold from painting by M.B. Robinson. Mauve softcovers black lettering on front cover yapp edges minor dustoiling edgewear still VG copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated Souvenir De Luxe program for the play which opened in 1927. Frank Reilly would also produce A Play Without a Name in 1929. This production featured John Cumberland as Pickwick Charles McNaughton as Sam Weller Hugh Miller as Alfred Jingle and others. Frank C. Reilly, paperback
183830435London: Richard Bentley 1838. 2 volumes. First edition first issue first state without the "grotesque" border added at Vol. II p. 238. 13 illustrations by George Cruikshank. In addition and extra are two very finely executed unsigned watercolours at the end of Volume II. 8vo very handsomely bound and signed Bartlett in full red calf the spines beautifully decorated with ornate gilt tooled panels within compartments between raised bands the covers ruled at the borders with double gilt-fillet lines and corner tools. Marbled endpapers and gilt tooled turn-ins. Original cloth covers bound in at the end of each volume. xix 288; ix 263 2 watercolours on two leaves 36 ads. pp. A fine and very handsome copy with some very minor evidence of age. FIRST EDITION. A unique copy with two very fine watercolurs added to the end of Volume II and with the original cloth covers and spine panels bound in. Richard Bentley hardcover
193734823Bloomsbury London: The Nonesuch Press 1937. First edition. With the prospectus leaves and the publisher's order form included. With reproductions of sample pages and bindings throughout title leaves printed on orange papers. 4to publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt with a gilt pictorial publisher’s device on the upper cover. 134 pp. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION. AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT TO THE FAMED NONESUCH EDITION OF DICKENS’ COMPLETE WORKS. The volume begins with an introductory essay on Charles Dickens and his illustrators by Arthur Waugh past president of the Dickens Fellowship and Deputy-Chairman the board of Chapman and Hall at the time of publication; the next section presents a bibliographical list of the original illustrations to Dickens’ works that were made under his supervision compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton co-author of the standard reference work for Dickens’ periodical writings. In the “Retrospectus†past editions of Dickens’ works are reviewed and sample pages are reproduced and in the “Prospectus†appears a description of forthcoming Nonesuch Dickens published later that year. The Nonesuch Dickens is regarded as the definitive collected edition of the Dickens’ works with illustrations from the original plates that appeared in the first editions of Dickens’ works. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
193734824Bloomsbury London: The Nonesuch Press 1937. First edition. With the prospectus leaves and the publisher's order form included. With vignette illustrations in the text and reproductions of sample pages and bindings throughout title leaves printed on orange papers. Tall 8vo publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt with a gilt pictorial publisher’s device on the upper cover. Without dustwrapper as issued. 134 pp. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION. AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT TO THE FAMED NONESUCH EDITION OF DICKENS’ COMPLETE WORKS. The volume begins with an introductory essay on Charles Dickens and his illustrators by Arthur Waugh past president of the Dickens Fellowship and Deputy-Chairman the board of Chapman and Hall at the time of publication; the next section presents a bibliographical list of the original illustrations to Dickens’ works that were made under his supervision compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton co-author of the standard reference work for Dickens’ periodical writings. In the “Retrospectus†past editions of Dickens’ works are reviewed and sample pages are reproduced and in the “Prospectus†appears a description of forthcoming Nonesuch Dickens published later that year. The Nonesuch Dickens is regarded as the definitive collected edition of the Dickens’ works with illustrations from the original plates that appeared in the first editions of Dickens’ works. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
