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186948276London: All The Year Round 1869. 1st appearance. 1st published in book form in 1869. Not in Sadleir nor Wolff. Bespoke blue quarter leather binding over blue pebbled cloth boards. Maroon leather title label to spine. Pale yellow eps. General wear to binding. Age-toning and sporadic foxing to paper. Period pos Samuel Poole to ffep. A solid VG copy. Divers paginations. Masthead engraving to each issue. 8vo. <br/><br/>Yates' novel published in 36 sequential weekly issues of Dickens' All The Year Round beginning with the first issue of the New Series Saturday 5 December 1868 and concluding in issue No. 36 7 August 1869. Given the ATYR publication was a miscellany other interesting sketches are found herein such as "The Chinese From Home" 20 March 1869 wherein the editor remarks on fellows found "almost anywhere" in California: "sloping-eyed yellow-complexioned with a shaved head and pigtail carefully secured in a twisted knot behind." Rare piece of Victorian literature not often seen on the market especially in this collected serialized form. All The Year Round hardcover books
1973165810Somerville: Rounder Records 1973. Audio LP. Single 33-1/3rd LP record album in very good original sleeve with 8 page booklet of song lyrics photos and liner notes laid-in. Rounder Records 4005. 12 songs produced by the Rounder Collective recording studio. Rounder Records unknown books
1994UGREAT00twWatermill 1994. Very Good. Wells H.G. Great Tales of Suspense. Dickens Charles; Doyle Arthur Conan; Bierce Ambrose; Irving Washington. NP: Watermill 1994. 107pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Watermill paperback books
187336194London: Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press 1873. 1st edition. Not in the NCBEL. Original publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Slight lean. Modest binding wear. Newspaper excerpt tipped in to rear blank. A VG copy. x 180 pp. Numerous blank leaves at rear. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>The author has a two page remininscence of meeting Dickens as a young man who at the time was a court reporter and per the author sweet on a young lady named Jane. Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press hardcover books
187445063London: E. Rimmel 1874. 1st printing presumed. Bolton BL no. 25. Printed self wrappers. A VG copy some age toning and chips at fore-edge some scattered stains no text is obscured. Single leaf folded vertically to form 4 pp. Elaborate pictorial title-page. Folded: 9-3/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>The Gaiety Theatre The Strand London was where Dickens saw his last play in 1869. This production of The Battle of Life was edited for the stage by Charles Dickens Jr. and starred prominent actors John Lawrence Toole 1830-1906 as Ben Britain and Ellen Farren 1848-1904 as Clemency Newcombe. No library holdings found on OCLC: scarce. The play opened on December 26 1873. E. Rimmel unknown books
187944932Boston 1879. 1st printing presumed. Printed self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; bit of fore-edge rash to top half of bill overall VG. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Engraved headpiece and small engravings in text for ads. 11-7/8" x 9" <br/><br/>Apparently this play a crowd favorite at the Boston Museum for Bolton records earlier performances in 1877 & 1878 cf. CH 80 & 83. unknown books
187945062n. p. 1879. 1st printing presumed. Printed self wrappers. One tiny 1 mm chip at the edge else a fine copy. Broadside on thin peach colored paper. 11-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/>A "programme" for a reception of dramatic scenes from "Old Curiosity Shop" "David Copperfield" and Mr. Pickwick. Very scarce indeed no library holdings found. unknown books
187144951Boston 1871. 1st printing presumed ca 1870. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; a few small tears at edges and one central pin hole that runs through all four pages; overall very good. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Engraved borderds and illustrations in text. Folded: 10-1/4" x 6-9/16" <br/><br/>A playbill for a production of "No Thoroughfare" at the Boston Theatre with Charles Fechter playing the role of Jules Obenreizer and Carlotta Leclercq in the role of Marquerite. The playbill has many local advertisements and some information about the theatre company in the years 1870 and 1871. Charles Fechter travelled from London to the United States in 1870 and enjoyed a very succesful career in Boston. Critics disaproved of his "Hamlet" also advertised on this playbill but were captivated by his refined style and Continental training Hornblow vol. 2 p. 214. unknown books
33718London: Charles Tilt n. d. 2nd edition ca 1840s cf Cohn 243; Eckel p. 206-208. Green flexible cloth binding with gilt lettering/pictorial cover professionally recased. Gilt bright. Prior owner stamp to front paste-down. A VG copy. 38 2 pp. 2 pages of bookseller adverts conclude volume. 11 full page illustrations as well as the cover design by George Cruikshank. 5-3/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>Initially thought to be a work of Dickens later investigation has settled on Thackeray as the author with Dickens presumed to have written the Preface and Notes. Charles Tilt hardcover books
233134London: Tilt and Bogue n.d. Second Edition. With cover design and 11 numbered etchings by George Cruikshank 1 etched plate of music. 38 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth upper board gilt with pictorial title by Cruikshank. In brown cloth slipcase. Cruikshank George. Second Edition. With cover design and 11 numbered etchings by George Cruikshank 1 etched plate of music. 38 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The poem is by Thackeray the notes by Dickens and the illustrations are by the incomparable Cruikshank.<br/>This second edition undated is uncommon; the third edition is dated 1851. Cohn 243; Eckel pp. 232-5 for 1839 first ed. Tilt and Bogue unknown books
18362127.2London: Chapman & Hall 1836. 1st edition Eckel pp 102-103. Original printed wrappers. Chemised and housed in a full green morocco pull-off slipcase. Accompanied by a bound copy of the 1884 Jarvis facsimile. VG some soiling & wear. Over quite a respectable copy of this delicate emphemeral piece. Slipcase - spine sunned to tan otherwise VG. 49 3 blank pp. Trimmed edges. 4 plates. 12mo. <br/><br/>Early in his career while busily at work on PICKWICK Dickens found time to write this political tract under this Sparks pseudonym in support of the working man's freedom on the Sabbath which was being threatened by Parlimentary action. This role of working man's champion was to continue throughout his life. <br /> <br />The first edition of this work in original wrappers is rather uncommon. Chapman & Hall unknown books
18364190bdLondon: Chapman and Hall 1836. First Edition. Duodecimo printed wrappers 49 iii blanks pp. Four plates. Good. At some point the spine was professionally reinforced; even so the front cover has become detached; otherwise clean and tight in cloth chemise and morocco & boards slipcase that shows some wear. Chapman and Hall, 1836. hardcover books
5396London: John Camden Hotten n. d. Original green cloth with black highlights. VG rub to frnt cover. 372 pp including index. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/>Initially published in 1870 according to the NCBEL See NCBEL III 826. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
5396.1London: John Camden Hotten n. d. Original green pebbled cloth with black highlights. VG minor extremity wear/bpt/hinge paper cracked. 372 pp including index. 32 pp Chatto & Windus catalogue at rear. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/>Initially published in 1870 according to the NCBEL See NCBEL III 826. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
5503London: Blackie & Son n.d. Circa 1890s. See BL 12272. Original red cloth with black lettering/cover design. Abt VG cloth soiled/wear at extremities. 224 pp including index frontis sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Blackie & Son hardcover books
1844012317various: various 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Contempary binding of half leather over marbleized covers of three "bestsellers" of mid-19thC. First Samuel Lever Handy Andy NY: Appleton 1845.380. Second Joseph Holt Ingraham Montezuma the Serf; Or the Revolt of the Mexitili: The Tale of the Last Days of the Aztec Dynasty Volumes 1-2 Boston: H. L. Williams 1945 122; 116. Third. Charles Dickens Boz. Martin Chuzzlewit. Phialdelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1844 320 double-column illustrated by Phiz 10 plates 2 of which are unbound should be 11. Binding split down middle front cover loose. Lightly foxed. Nice artifact of rebinding of popular novels of the period including the first American printing of Martin Chuzzlewit. various hardcover books
1976URUSKIN00CZCGarland 1976. Very Good. Ruskin John. King of the Golden River Holiday Romance and Petsetilla's Posy Facsimile of 1851 1868 and 1870 editions. Dickens Charles; Hood Tom. New York: Garland 1976. Illustrated. 8vo. Orange cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled covers. Blue smudge to bottom edge. Garland hardcover books
3436n. p. n. d. Ca 1930s . A Fine example. 3-1/2" tall. <br/><br/>Coffee-mug size. unknown books
196145140Cleveland:: World Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. First edition thus. Brief gift inscription on half-title page else near fine in a very good price clipped dust jacket. . World Publishing Company, hardcover books
1971151293N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Williams in the studio working on character studies for the 1971 animated short film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella. Williams was best known for his work with Disney Studios in the early 1950s going on to create animated title sequences for several films including "What's New Pussycat" 1965 and "The Return of the Pink Panther" 1975 and most notably serving as animation director for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" 1988.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased on the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
198246629New York: DRG Records 1982. 1st Pressing presumed. One record in sleeve. Shrink-wrapped. A F copy. Unopened. Illustrated sleeve. 12-1/2" x 12-1/2" <br/><br/> DRG Records unknown 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
02675London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1931. Rackham Rings Dickens' Chimes<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator DICKENS Charles. The Chimes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by Edward Wagenkecht. London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1931. <br/><br/>Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist this being copy number 622. Small folio 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in; 293 x 190 mm. xxxii 4 128 2 pp. Six full page illustrations and fourteen drawings in black and white. <br/><br/>Publisher's original pictorial buckram. Top edge gilt. Slight fading 1 inch to front and lower boards at spine. A near fine copy in the publisher's pictorial slipcase with matching limitation number.<br/><br/>Introduction writer Edward Wagenknecht 1900-2004 "was the last surviving great scholar bookman to be born at the end of the Victorian era. He wrote two seminal works on the English and American novel and a long line of critical literary biographies from 1929 to 1994. His first major biography was The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait 1929. Two years later Wagenknecht successfully persuaded Arthur Rackham to illustrate Dickens's Christmas tale The Chimes for the Limited Editions Club" <br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell p. 67. London: Printed by George W. Jones for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1931 unknown books
183834870Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1838. 16mo 13.5 cm 5.3". 111 1 pp. <br><br>with Dickens Charles. Sketches of young gentlemen. Dedicated to young ladies. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1838. 108 2 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â First American editions of these two works together as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Young ladies and young gentlemen are humorously categorized under their various types: including for the former Romantic Evangelical Literary Manly Hyperbolical Abstemious and others and for the latter Bashful Military Political Censorious Funny etc. While the first work was often attributed to Dickens when originally published anonymously in 1837 it was actually written by humorist Caswall in a voice very much like Dickens's; the second work first printed in 1838 is => genuine Dickens. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 49619. Publisher's violet cloth; front cover and spine faded to tan the former with a printed paper label somewhat chipped and front cover showing tiny spots of discoloration and pinholes in cloth. Pages age-toned with intermittent mild spotting; a few lower outer corners bumped and middle section with dent to upper outer margin. A copy much read; still both highly readable and => highly entertaining. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard hardcover books
194709210New York: The American Mercury Inc 1947. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo volume 9 #38 January 1947; with stories by Ellery Queen Dashiell Hammett Charles Dickens and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter. <br/><br/> The American Mercury, Inc unknown books
