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1859027460London: The Office 1859 All 1859 weekly journals of "All the Year Round" plus the extra 1859 Christmas number - Contains the complete first appearance of "Tales of Two Cities" serialized here April to November 1859 - bound in one volume. Original thin cloth boards with dak cloth on spine recently replaced. Boards worn at edges. 9 1/4" tall. iv 624pp; 212pp; 48pp. Text pages show some toning. Tightly bound. Some light staining to cloth of boards. Flyleaf has been replaced. Some light foxing. . Rare to find this first appearance complete in the original binding. Good condition. The Office hardcover
1890biblio1793<p>TWO VOLUMES in ONE BOOK: 1.THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST with 16 B/W gravures XII438 pages & 2.PICTURES FROM ITALY AND AMERICAN NOTES with 16 B/W gravures X437 pages. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS ca1890. Hardcover Custom made binding: Maroon cloth Gilt titles on the spine Marbled all edges. Book looks as New. 8.1"x5.25"x2.0". be344321. </p> GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS hardcover
188114351London: Published by Chapman and Hall 1881. Comprising 8 pen and ink drawings by Mahoney signed with monogram M; and 1 gray wash drawing and 2 watercolor drawings by Green signed CG. 1 vols. Various sizes. Matted and bound into an oblong folio album of red morocco gilt by Rivière & Sons front hinge repaired. A few of the drawings show some minor foxing otherwise fine. Comprising 8 pen and ink drawings by Mahoney signed with monogram M; and 1 gray wash drawing and 2 watercolor drawings by Green signed CG. 1 vols. Various sizes. Cf. Podeschi H1150; H1816a Published by Chapman and Hall unknown
1865137<p><strong>1865 First Edition – <em>Our Mutual Friend</em> Volume I</strong><br />Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Hardcover Volume One. Published 1865 and illustrated with forty-two engravings from designs by Marcus Stone.</p><p>This copy shows age-appropriate wear including cracking and loss of cloth along the spine. The text block is clean with no markings or highlighting. Notably the inner cover is signed by Massachusetts Governor John Davis Long dated 1865 adding historical provenance.</p><p>A solid example of a mid-19th century Dickens volume with notable association interest. Please refer to photos for condition details.</p> Publication Date: 1865 paperback
189427418Houghton Mifflin 1894 Illustrated with engravings on Steel Back blank FLYLEAF FORMER OWNER STAMPS Preface HB NODJ ISSUED 2 VOLUMES Complete Marblelized Boards with Red Leather Tips & on Spine Tooled LEATHER decorated Lettered Gold Gilt. 1894 1st Edition THUS VG/GOOD- AS-IS NOJACKET Cover almost Detached on Vol.1 &has been TAPED AT Inner Hinge Cover light rub wear & Slight Cracking separation Spine Area edges Scuffed Tiny Chips Extremities Cover One Vol. has small rectangular piece MISSING back Cover Outer Hinges Reglued Interior nice tight Clean light FoX Wear & little stiff from Reglueing . First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frontispiece by Boz. Houghton, Mifflin hardcover
187002DIC037<p>Quite a bit of wear on all volumes book boards but still intact.</p><p>Volume I - Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; Our Mutual Friend<br />With 20 illustrations. Condition: Front hinge starting loose first few pages; white mark on spine; otherwise standard set wear given age.</p><p>Volume II - Great Expectations; Little Dorrit; Martin Chuzzlewit<br />With 20 illustrations including four full-page illustrations for Great Expectations.<br />Condition: Front hinge starting loose first few pages; white mark on spine; otherwise standard set wear given age.</p><p>Volume III - A Christmas Carol and Christmas Books; A Tale of Two Cities; Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son<br />With 24 illustrations. Condition: Front hinge starting; loose first few pages; otherwise standard set wear given age.<br /><br />Volume V - The Pickwick Papers; Pictures from Italy; American Notes; Bleak House<br />With 19 illustrations. Condition: Front hinge starting loose first few pages; otherwise standard set wear given age.<br /><br />Volume VI - The Uncommercial Traveler; A Childs History of England; Barnaby Rudge; Miscellaneous; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With 21 illustrations. Condition: Front hinge starting loose first few pages; otherwise standard set wear given age.</p><p>Contact seller for more photos or details.</p> P.F. Collier hardcover
1900075554London : Chapman & Hall Limited 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Engravings. A simplified history of England making it easier for young children to understand. Dickens' own son was six years old when he wrote this history and it appeared in serial form from 1851 to 1853. Frontispiece engraving of Dickens with tissue illustrations. x Table of The Reigns Chronological Table and Table of Contents List of Illustrations 468 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Half bound green and brown marbled boards red leather corners and spine with gilt title. Head and tail of spine tattered edges and corners are worn. General shelf wear. Gilded top page edges deckled fore and bottom edges. Very good. Full refund if not satisfied. Chapman & Hall, Limited hardcover
18811754299822GASJohn R. Anderson 1881. Hardcover. Good. 1881. No edition remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt edges to textblock. Patterned endpapers. Black and white illustrations throughout by Hammatt Billings. Pages with some foxing and tanning particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Dedication in blue ink to front pastedown dated 1884. Minor pencil inscription to rear. Boards have moderate to heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing fraying and slight tearing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional moderate marks and staining. John R. Anderson hardcover
189719181Henry Altemus Company. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. Beige pictorial cloth cover is lightly soiled on back cover with crushed caps corners are lightly worn with bumped upper corners but cover is in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Creases in rear end sheet but otherwise the end sheets and paste downs are clean and in very good condition. A small chip on edge of page 85 small tear on edge of page 35 but pages are clean and in very good condition. 80 B&W illustrations. . Henry Altemus Company hardcover
1868328347New York: Books Inc 1868. Cleartype edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Light foxing on top text block edge.; The Works of Charles Dickens Volume Fifteen. Books, Inc hardcover
1856211041Hardcover blind-stamped brown cloth titled and decorated on the spine in gilt. Tight binding Unmarked text. Corners worn Missing FEP. Stains on end leafs. First American one-volume edition preceded by two volume editions by both Harper's and Hickling Swan and Brown editions in 1854. Two volumes in one. Charles Dickens History Literature 052822 Hickling, Swan & Brown hardcover
1900162274London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1900. Autograph Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Top text block edge gilt. Chipping at spine crown. Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover
1899002069London: The Hawarden Press 1899. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. A Child's History of England" by Charles Dickens. Limited Edition of 500 Copies this being numbered 409 as stated on the copyright page. Published by the Hawarden Press London 1899. The book measure 5.5" x 8.5". Bound in publisher's original green buckram with gilt titling and decorations on the spine. Top edge gilt. Reproduction of author's signature embossed on the front cover. With black-and-white steel engraving by Geoffroy. The book is in good condition. Wear to the covers and spine. The gilt on the spine is clear and vibrant. Some moisture stains to the margins of the textblock. The textblock is gently toned and largely clean. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # G6-35. The Hawarden Press hardcover
18752601<p>1875 hardcover as pictured. This beautiful small volume was part of a multivolume Dicken's set. It is in fairly good condition given its age. Three quarter bound in marbled paper and tan leather with gold stamping. Spine with raised bands black and red stamped paste on labels and head/tail bands. Binding is firm. Marbled boards are lightly rubbed. Leather is scuffed in a few places. Leather spine is age tanned and dry with a few small cracks. Marbled endpapers and edges of text block. Text is age tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. Unfortunately the frontispiece has been removed but the remaining eleven illustrations with tissue guards remain. We have several other volumes from the <em>Carleton's New Illustrated Edition </em>set in our Biblio store. These are listed by title. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OB2</p> G. W. Carleton & Co hardcover
185233491London: Bradbury and Evans 1852 '53 '54. 3 volumes. First edition first issue with "Christmas 1851" on dedication page. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and half-title in each volume as called for. 8vo publisher’s original reddish-brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and with the gilt pictorial devices surrounded by elaborate blind stamped borders on the upper covers lower covers stamped elaborately in blind marbled endleaves and edges. Housed in a foldover protective case. ix 210; vi 214; vi 321. An unusually pleasing and fine set especially well preserved in the original bindings rare thus some light abrasion to the upper spine panel of the first volume. RARE FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL REDDISH-BROWN CLOTH GILT DECORATED AND IN UNUSUALLY PLEASING CONDITION.<br> From the Roman conquest to the reign of William and Mary 1688. ‘The germ of this book was in the mind of Dickens nearly ten years before the idea was perfected. In 1843 he wrote to Douglas Jerrold concerning it but no immediate result followed. In style subject and composition it was different from anything he had attempted.’ Bradbury and Evans hardcover