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1908WB17294Boston: Bibliophile Society 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited by George Pierce Baker. In a boxed-slipcase. Modest wear; a nice copy. <br/><br/> Bibliophile Society hardcover books
1978170523009Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Easton Press collector's edition bound in genuine leather lettered and edged in gilt silken endpapers. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate on verso of front free endpaper lightly rubbed gilt on front cover. Easton Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT37629New York: Putnam 1922. Gilt cloth and boards t.e.g. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Bookplate lower corners worn spine faded but near very good lacking the dust jacket. Putnam hardcover books
1860WRCLIT64144London: Chapman & Hall 1860. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards a.e.g. Binding worn joints mended some restoration to spine front binder's free endsheet cracking at gutter; just a sound copy. First edition. An uncommon collection containing fifteen of Dickens' articles including some well-known pieces: "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree" "A Plated Article" and "Valentine's Day at the Post Office." Dickens revised the texts of these pieces for this book publication and Wills dedicated the volume to Dickens. The editor's copy with his bookplate William Henry Wills on the front paste-down and a statement written out by a later owner in ink on a prelim narrating the provenance of this volume: it stayed with Wills' widow "formerly Miss Janet Chambers" until her death in 1892 when "Mr. Wills' library was inherited by my aunt Lady Priestly and is now in the possession of her son Dr. R. Priestly and to a smaller extent in that of her second son Mr. J.G. Priestly K.G. who presented me with this volume. G.E.S. Chambers. Edinburgh. May 1911." William Henry Wills' lifelong association with Dickens began in the fall of 1845 when Wills became the novelist's personal secretary and general administrative assistant. Wills had contributed to Bentley's MISCELLANY in 1837 had been a member of the literary staff of PUNCH at its founding in 1841 and had served since 1842 as assistant editor of Chambers's JOURNAL in Edinburgh. "On John Forster's suggestion Wills was made assistant editor of 'Household Words' and was given the same position by Dickens when ten years later 'All the Year Round' was incorporated with it. His business capacity was invaluable to Dickens and he was one of the most intimate friends of the novelist in later life. At the end of 1851 Wills accompanied Dickens on his theatrical tour in connection with the Guild of Literature and Art to the temporary success of which his exertions largely contributed. In 1868 while Dickens was in America Wills suffered concussion of the brain from an accident in the hunting field and was disabled from his duties as editor of 'All the Year Round.' He never recovered and retired from active work" - DNB. ECKEL pp.187-8. GIMBEL D35. SUZANNET E50. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1968WRCLIT41201New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Cloth. Illustrations. Facsimile of the 1910 edition. Bookplate else very good. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1912WRCLIT41351Boston: Houghton 1912. Two volumes. 12mo. Green boards t.e.g. Frontis portraits. First this edition. One of 550 numbered sets. Boards slightly marked else a near fine bright set. Houghton hardcover books
1971WRCLIT41339London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1971. Cloth. First edition. Pencil ownership inscription small stain to fore-edge else very good in used soiled price-clipped dust jacket. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover books
1882WRCLIT41253New York: Harper 1882. Cloth. First edition. A volume in the "English Men of Letters" series. Edges tanned bookplate lettering on cloth faded cloth worn and marked corners bumped spine ends frayed but a sound copy. Harper hardcover books
1965WRCLIT35865Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1965. Cloth. First edition. Bookplate else about fine in lightly soiled spine-sunned dust jacket. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1929WRCLIT40827Boston: Houghton 1929. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Small scuff to front board else near fine in a soiled rubbed dust jacket with some chipping and several old internal tape repairs. Houghton hardcover books
1976WRCLIT40729New York: St. Martin's Press 1976. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Bookplate else fine in dust jacket. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1912WRCLIT40786Glasgow & London: John Smith and Chapman & Hall 1912. Cloth t.e.g others untrimmed. First edition. Bookplate else very good. John Smith and Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1904WRCLIT69058Warwick & New York: J. Thomson / G.D. Steichert 1904. viii9-108pp. 12mo. Boards paper spine label. Spine label chipped spine a bit darkened and creased extremities rubbed and a bit worn pencil annotations throughout endsheets tanned. A good sound copy. First edition. A good bookselling association copy inscribed by the compiler/editor: "To Charles Sawyer Esq. with every best wish from W.T. Spencer June 1904." The verso of the first preliminary bears an advert for Spencer's bookselling firm established 1884 and it therefore seems probable that he had a hand in underwriting the publication. Spencer and Charles Sawyer were great bookselling rivals in the area of Dickens and his contemporaries though Sawyer's firm was established a decade after Spencer's. J. Thomson / G.D. Steichert hardcover books
1982WRCLIT41222Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 1982. Cloth. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. Pennsylvania hardcover books
1970WRCLIT41205New York: New York Public Library/Arno Press 1970. Quarto. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. About fine in dust jacket with one corner clipped and a small closed tear to the base of the spine. New York Public Library/Arno Press hardcover books
1970WRCLIT53798New York: New York Public Library/Arno Press 1970. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Frontis illustrations. First edition issue in wrappers. Near fine. New York Public Library/Arno Press unknown books
1951WRCLIT40756London: Arthur Baker 1951. Gilt cloth. First edition. A volume in The English Novelists series. Offsetting to endsheets spine gilding faded else very good in rather chipped and torn dust jacket. Arthur Baker hardcover books
1936WRCLIT41251London: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1936. Small octavo. Flexible cloth-covered boards. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Published for the Pickwick Centenary. Faint offsetting to endsheets fore-edge a bit spotted else very good in a soiled edge- worn dust jacket with a small hole and several old inner tape mends. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover books
1965WRCLIT40680Ithaca NY: Cornell 1965. Cloth. First edition. Ink name else near fine in price-clipped creased and rubbed dust jacket with some old inner tape mends. Cornell hardcover books
1978WRCLIT40692Bloomington: Indiana 1978. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Very good in dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears. The relationship between Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne the illustrator of ten of Dickens's novels. Indiana hardcover books
1993WRCLIT40766New York: Morrow Junior Books 1993. Quarto. Pictorial boards. Illustrations by Diane Stanley. First edition. Morrow Junior Books hardcover books
1982WRCLIT83438Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop 1982. xvi41203pp. Quarto. Gilt lettered cloth. Illustrated with photographs of bindings and relevant text leaves. First edition. About fine in near fine faintly sun-struck jacket. Heritage Book Shop hardcover books
1968WRCLIT37644Berkeley: California 1968. Cloth. First edition. A few smudges to edges else near fine in rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. California hardcover books
1914WRCLIT40810New York: Scribner 1914. Cloth and boards. Illustrated. Second printing of the first edition. Light soiling to boards else near fine in tattered glassine wrapper enclosed in light dust- soiled publisher's box. Scribner hardcover books
1975WRCLIT37746London: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1975. Gilt cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover books
