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1837146181837. illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of "Watkins Tottle and Other Sketches." Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition consisting of 1250 copies issued in February 1837. These are the twelve pieces that had been published in England two months earlier as "The Second Series" of SKETCHES BY BOZ. As is evident from this book's sub-title this Philadelphia firm had published the "First Series" of SKETCHES BY BOZ as WATKINS TOTTLE and Other Sketches nine months earlier. Later in 1837 Carey Lea & Blanchard reprinted this volume with the addition of "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "The Pantomime of Life" under the title THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE AND OTHER SKETCHES. This is a very good copy there is wear along the edges of the spine and the spine label is rubbed but wholly legible -- but this extremely fragile volume has held up very well for the past 180 years; the faint remnants of a shelf label are visible at the top of the spine and there is an old ink-stamped name at the top of the title page. Podeschi Yale A9; Wilkins had seen only the later reprint but noted "there had evidently been an earlier issue. unknown books
1839CD095London: Chapman and Hall 1839 New edition. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Finely bound in contemporary three-quarter dark green calf marbled boards and page edges spine titled and elaborately stamped in gilt. Very good with wear and rubbing to spine ends edges and boards frontispiece with repaired tear some foxing to frontis and plates. Overall a very attractive bright and very clean copy. This collection of fiction first published as a series of short pieces in The Monthly Magazine and other periodicals was re-issued in book form in 1836 and stands as Dickens's first foray into authorship. The pieces were penned under Dickens's pseudonym "Boz" and offer insight into his observations of the streets of Victorian London and its inhabitants. The humorous and unforgiving social critique includes chapters such as "Thoughts about People" a grim take on the life of a working man in London as one that "cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies for no one remembered him when he was alive" and "The Broker's Man" a long lament by a character called Mr. Bung on the trials he faces working for a broker. The original two-volume set and its later-published third volume were illustrated by notable political cartoonist and illustrator of the time George Cruikshank who worked closely with Dickens to portray each character and scene exactly as he envisioned them. Sketches marked the beginning of many of Dickens's professional relationships which ultimately led to his rise to the prominence he holds today. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Cruikshank George. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover 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
187426176London: Chapman & Hall 1874. 8vo pp. xiv 577; engraved frontispiece and half-title and 38 engraved plates all by George Cruikshank; a wacky home-made binding of full brown morocco rear cover with blindstamped geometrical pattern front cover with similar geometric design but with alligator interwoven into the borders and the central design and with 7 alligator onlays; overlapping spine hand-lettered and now largely faded; hinges crudely but effectively strengthened with ruled paper prelims bound out of order the text and plate quite clean. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
1836291699London: Macrone 1836. hardcover. fine. Cruikshank. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo full dark green morocco gilt spines gilt tops by Zaehnsdorf. London: Macrone 1836-1837.<br/><br/> Second edition of the first two volumes with an additional preface dated August 1836. The Second series complete in one volume dated 1837 on the title page & 1836 on the pictorial title is a first edition with pages 25 32 & 62 mis-numbered. Nice set of Dickens' first published work.<br/><br/> Macrone unknown books
1863WRCLIT82016London: Chapman & Hall 1863. viii526pp. Large octavo. Medium green cloth lettered in gilt stamped in blind. Pictorial title and plates. Ink name on free endsheet slight rubbing to cloth a very good copy. Chapman & Hall issued their first one volume edition in May of 1839 including the forty engravings by Cruikshank. This printing is in a binding sharing the style of the secondary bindings Chapman & Hall placed on the sheets of the titles taken over from Bradbury & Evans. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
183608439New York 1836-1837 1836. Hard Cover. Very Good. Folio. Charles Dickens' first appearance in America. Includes the 11 Sketches as follows: "Sketches by Boz": "The Fashionable Dancing Academy" p. 122; "Miss Evans an the Eagle" p. 134; "The Bloomsbury Christening" p. 146-47; "The Steam Excursion: p. 162-63; "Meditations in Monmonth Street" p. 177-178; "The Great Winglebury Duel" p. 186-87; "A Christmas Dinner" p. 202-03; "Excerpt from 'Pickwick;" p. 294; "Minns and His Cousin" p. 305-060; "Our Next Door Neighbors" p. 214-25; "The Parlour Orator" pp. 322-23. Bound in red cloth and marbled boards with paper spine label marbled endpapers. Red leather bookplate of Charlotte O. Field on front cover. Ex-library with bookplate on front paste-down library pocket rear paste-down. Boards worn at corners; very good. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1850001761London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Dickens Charles. SKETCHES BY BOZ. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Original blind-stamped green publisher's cloth with spines elaborately decorated in gilt. First "Cheap" Edition actually volume 8 of the first and most important collected works of Dickens with a new 1pp introduction by Dickens and a specially commissioned new frontispiece. Begun in 1847 with writings already published Dickens added further titles to his "works" as he went along. Despite being called "cheap" -- these volumes are just as high quality in texture and ornamentation as his first editions; there are 18 titles in total we've never seen a complete set in fine original condition and individual volumes in collector's condition are scarce. NEAR FINE spine a trifle browned as almost always with this olive-green cloth slightly foxed minor wear to the extremities bright gilt and excellent eye appeal. It would hard to find a better example of this traditionally yet inexplicably undervalued volume from Dickens's carefully-designed newly prefaced and illustrated first collection of his works. First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books
1841146201841. illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined and first American Illustrated Edition -- later 1841 printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY BOZ were published in 1836-1837 first in the UK and soon after by Carey Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia. Following that on both sides of the Atlantic the two series were combined with plates by Cruikshank and issued first in monthly parts in 1838-1839 and then in cloth in 1839; this is Lea & Blanchard's second printing of that 1839 combined edition. This copy is in the original cloth and is in very good condition a bit of wear at the spine ends one short marginal tear on a plate. Smith p. 23 he notes this copy -- with New Bedford bookseller's ticket. unknown books
187658216London: Chapman and Hall 1876. F. Barnard. 8vo pp. viii 240 with 34 B & W illustrations. BOUND WITH: DICKENS Charles THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB with Fifty-Seven illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 400. Bound in 3/4 calf. A very good clean copy. Two works bound together with 91 illustrations. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1869143831869. By Quiz sic. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Cassell Petter and Galpin; and 596 Broadway New York n.d. 1869. 2 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt black and red beveled. First American Collected Edition of all three "Sketches" -- two of which actually were written by Charles Dickens. In 1837 SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES had been pseudonomously written by "Quiz" actually Rev. Edward Caswall -- classifying these "members of the animal kingdom" into such categories as "Lazy Young Ladies" "Stupid Young Ladies" "Petting Young Ladies" and "Manly Young Ladies." The following year Dickens wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN anonymously -- not even using his pseudonym "Boz" as a protest against the earlier book -- in fact urging women to read his book on men as the "antidote" for Caswall's earlier one. Finally Dickens also wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES published anonymously in 1840 and in England all three were published together in 1843. The first two titles LADIES and GENTLEMEN were in 1838 collected in one volume both by Carey Lea & Blanchard and by Wiley & Putnam but this 1869 volume was the first American to collect all three -- albeit inaccurately ascribing them all to "Quiz." This copy with the American address added to the title page is what Smith calls a "subsidiary edition" or "the American issue of the English impression." This is a handsomely bound book with binding design initialed "WR" by the Scottish binding designer William Ralston. It is in very good-plus condition minor wear at the extremities endpapers cracked. Smith pp 5-8; Podeschi/Gimbel Yale D56; not in Carr UTexas. Provenance: signed in pencil by Walter Smith this is the copy described and photographed in his 2019 bibliography. unknown books
1838143821838. Dedicated to Young Ladies. Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Blanchard 1838. Original dark green cloth with front cover label.<br/><br/> First American Edition. Dickens wrote this as a protest against SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES pseudonymously written by "Quiz" subsequently attributed to Rev. Edward Caswall the year before. That volume classified these "interesting members of the animal kingdom" in such groups as "Lazy Young Lady" "Stupid Young Lady" "Petting Young Lady" and "Manly Young Lady." To quote from Dickens's "Dedication to the Young Ladies": Your Dedicator is humbly of opinion that so many libels upon your Honourable sex were never contained in any previously published work. Although your Dedicator is not at present prepared to deny that you are animals still he humbly submits that it is not polite to call you so. Your Dedicator humbly suggests that such of your Honourable sex as purchased the bane should possess themselves of the antidote and that those of your Honourable sex who were not rash enough to take the first should lose no time in swallowing the last -- prevention being in all cases better than cure. This Philadelphia volume contains first Caswall's LADIES by "Quiz" and then Dickens's GENTLEMEN anonymous -- no "Boz" each with its own title page dated 1838 and reading "from the last London edition." The front cover label does attribute the second piece -- to "Quiz Junior"; the half-title at the beginning of the volume reads "Sketches of Young Ladies" and then in a different i.e. added font "and Young Gentlemen." This is a very good copy of this delicate volume still in its original two-in-one binding with front cover label. There is a damp-mark "tide-line" about a quarter-inch up on all leaves in the margin only and on the blank dark green cloth spine is faintly inked the title. This is a scarce book in original state. Smith pp 1-4 wherein he notes that this edition was published in mid-March 1838 and Wiley & Putnam's on June 15th; no American edition is cited for Yale in Podeschi see B63; not cited for Univ. of Texas in Carr but see the Wiley & Putnam edition at B473; not cited in Wilkins. Provenance: signed in pencil by bibliographer Walter Smith this is the copy described and photographed in his 2019 book. unknown books
1838215225London: Chapman and Hall 1838. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full green morocco a.e.g. Spine tanned upper joint tender else Fine. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1855121681855. at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Wednesday June 27 1855. London: Effingham Wilson 1855. Original printed self-wrappers. First Edition of this speech Dickens gave to the Administrative Reform Association. Dickens was a founding member of this organization that lambasted the government for its indifference to the plight of the common man. Dickens was unable to be present when Austen Henry Layard addressed a meeting at Drury Lane on June 20th but he was entirely in accord with what Layard said. The evidence of government blue books Layard charged revealed "records of inefficiency records of indifference to suffering records of ignorance records of obstinacy" that were a shame to the nation. The Civil Service was grossly overstaffed with men busy making work for each other. Lord Palmerston personally he denounced for an attitude of levity toward the sufferings of the people. Stung by the attack Lord Palmerston retorted with a sneer about "the private theatricals at Drury Lane." And Dickens fired with indignation determined that such a creature "as this Lord Palmerston" must have it rung "into his soul or what stands for it that the time for Dandy insolence is gone for ever." At a second Drury Lane gathering on the 27th. Johnson It is said that the mood Dickens exhibited giving this address mirrored the mood of the novel he was then writing -- NOBODY'S FAULT the name was changed just before publication to LITTLE DORRIT. This copy properly reads "eighteen hundred" on the first page of text which means that it is not the very first and very scarce issue; however this copy does not have the printer Rickerby mentioned on the title page -- his name was added to only the latest issues. In our experience this mixed issue is the one usually encountered -- though any issue in original wrappers is quite uncommon. Just a bit of soil on the blank rear cover otherwise this copy is fine. Podeschi B237; Eckel p. 235. unknown books
184967227Two Issues of "The Standard" Where Dickens Gives Impression of Public Execution DICKENS Charles. The Standard. London: Charles Baldwin 1849. London: Nov. 16 1849 and Nov. 18 1849. Two issues. Measures 17 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Both issues discuss Dickens response and remarks to a public execution that he had witnessed known as the "Bermondsey Horror." This was first published in the London Times on Nov. 13 1849. The "Bermondsey Horror" was about a Swiss domestic servant by the name of Marie Manning who was convicted with her husband of the murder of her lover. Contains DickensÃs reactions to the dual public execution of the Mannings. A married couple accused of killing Mrs. ManningÃs young lover the Mannings were hanged in public outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Dickens had gone there the night before waiting overnight expressly in order to watch the hanging and note the crowdÃs reaction. Though the letter expresses strong disapproval at public spectacles such as this execution at the same time it reveals DickensÃs morbid curiosity and excitement at the event. It was here that Dickens wrote "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun." He later based one of his charactersóMademoiselle Hortense Lady Dedlock's maid in Bleak House. Newspapers have a bit of browning to the edges as expected. Overall a very good piece of Dickens history. Eckel p. 227 HBS 67227. $750 Charles Baldwin unknown 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
187166161Facsimile Edition Printed In 1871 DICKENS Charles. The Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta In Two Acts. By "Boz." First Performed at The St. James's Theatre On Thursday September 29 1836. Facsimile edition printed in 1871. Twelvemo. Original printed paper wrappers. Pages un-opened. Housed in a custom brown cloth portfolio gilt-stamped. The Strange Gentleman was written before Pickwick and was first performed on September 29 1836. The work is a dramatic adaptation of one of the authorÃs Sketches by Boz ìThe Great Winglebury Duel.î It was successful enough to run for sixty evenings. Carr VanderPoel Dickens B527 1. Gimbel A26. Eckel pp. 153-156. HBS 66161. $300 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1998WRCLIT40969Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century-Fox 1998. xiv19pp. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Accompanied by eight 8x10 publicity stills laid into a folding pictorial wrapper. A few soft creases to outer wrapper else about fine. Original presskit for this 1998 release directed by Alfonse Cuarzon based on a screenplay by Mitch Glazer loosely adapted from Dickens's novel starring Robert De Niro. Gwyneth Paltrow Ethan Hawke Anne Bancroft et at. Each still prints two images and include they character scene and production shots. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1884309191London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. One of Three Printed on Vellum. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br/>Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown books
18544953.2Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1854. 1st thus VanderPoel B571. Not in Gimbel nor the 1960 BL Catalogue Extract. Original green blindstamped cloth. VG tight/blinstamping sharp/sp sltly dull/some minor foxing. 452 pp. Frontis engraved title page & 6 inserted plates by Stephens & Beeler. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
18544953.3Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1854. 1st thus VanderPoel B571. Not in Gimbel nor the 1960 BL Catalogue Extract. Original brown blindstamped boards & gilt stamped spine. VG tight/blinstamping sharp/sp slightly dull/some minor foxing. 452 pp. Frontis engraved title page & 6 inserted plates by Stephens & Beeler. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
18544953Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1854. 1st edition thus VanderPoel B571. Not in Gimbel nor the 1960 BL Catalogue Extract. Original purple blindstamped cloth. Good spine sunned/head of spine chipped. 452 pp. Frontis engraved title page & 6 inserted plates by Stephens & Beeler. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
185968305First Edition First Issue of "A Tale of Two Cities" DICKENS Charles. BROWNE Hablot Knight illustrator. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first issue. With all eight of Smith's internal flaws necessary for the first issue present including page 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 3/16 inches; 207 x 132 mm. x 1-254 pp. Sixteen inserted plates including frontispiece and engraved vignette title by Browne 'Phiz'. Without the publisher's catalog bound at the end. Half green morocco over green linen cloth boards bound by Bayntun. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned to brown. Some occasional minor spots. Some light offsetting from plates. Plate facing page 150 with a closed one-inch tear. Overall a very good copy. A Tale of Two Cities was first serialized in DickensÃs periodical All the Year Round from April 30-November 26 1859. Its appearance in monthly parts July-December 1859 and book form mark DickensÃs return to his old publishers Chapman and Hall after a long stay with Bradbury and Evans. The extremely large audience for the novel in All the Year Round however left less than the usual demand for the parts issue and at first for the book both of which are now quite rare. This title also marks the authorÃs final collaboration with Phiz DickensÃs most evocative and most sympathetic illustrator. Hatton and Cleaver 33lff. Smith I 13. HBS 68305. $2750 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1863WRCLIT81990London: Chapman and Hall 1863. viii311pp. Large octavo. Medium green cloth decorated in blind with frame scroll-like pattern on the boards spine lettered in gilt. With 24 steel-engraved plates by Cruikshank. Spine a shade sunned ink name on front free endsheet folded London TIMES clipping affixed to verso of half-title otherwise a very good copy internally fresh and bright with only the faintest hint of minimal foxing. Denoted "A New Edition Revised and Corrected" thus based on the text of 1846. The clipping is Cruikshank's own Dec. 1871 letter to the TIMES "The Origin of 'Oliver Twist.'" Though a late edition uncommon in this condition. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1846022479London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First Edition. Small Octavo. 175pp. 2pp. ads at rear illustrated half-title frontispiece engraved title page in the 4th state and regular title page bound in publisher's red pictorial gilt cloth pictorial spine gilt pale yellow coated endpapers all edges gilt. A very nice clean copy of this fourth Christmas book in a series by Dickens showing only very minor wear to spine ends and corners and a couple of tiny chips to outer edges of front endpapers. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
