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Usual library labels and stamps. Lightly shelfworn but overall in good condition with all contents clean, tight and bright. No dust jacket. Ex-Library
Small 4to, [iv],114pp., printed on large and hand-made paper, interleaved with hand-written additions and annotations (possibly the library copy?), cont. half red morocco, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy. The rare privately printed library catalogue of books, chiefly first edition and with illustrations by selected artists. Includes a large section of Cruikshank, also Dickens, Phiz, Rowlandson. Wilby was a well known book collector and prominent in local affairs in Bishops Stortford. COPAC lists a single copy at the British Library.
Fine in brown cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. 9366. eng
93p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. 64pp. Delightful coloured illustration by Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger accompany the text of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.
28 leaves. Original typescript on single sheets. Browning as expected but not brittle. Size 8" x 11". Tablet style binding with brass fasteners at top edge. Wraps slightly soiled. Original brown paper envelope. Rare. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! .CHRISTMAS/W68
8vo., with monochrome illustrations; blocked red cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow and black, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. New version of a best-selling FS title, with striking cover design by Foreman.
A charming privately-issued edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. VI, 49 pp. 8vo. Publisher's quarter cloth and decorated boards. A wisp of wear to corners, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Scarce.
Book has a tight binding. Edge wear and marks to cover, about 15 pages have underlining in pencil, previous owner's name (Nora Dudwick) neatly printed on front end paper, 320 pages. Photo shows a very similar copy with the price Xed out; this copy has no X.
Fine hbk in red cloth, gilt. Illustrated by Elizabeth Odling. 17135. eng
32p. Two text woodcut engravings. Age stained. Double column. 8vo. Removed. No wraps, (if there were any ever present). Very scarce. CPHAM/W71C1
8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 47 plates on 44, a folding plate on japon, 3 coloured Dickens wrappers in facsimile (all original tissue guards present) and double-page coloured house publication in facsimile (original tissue guard present); original black buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, fore-edge very lightly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN LESLIE BALE WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published a month after the first edition. One of the most lavish publishing centenary histories, naturally emphasising the firm's relationships with its most notable authors including Ainsworth, Carlyle, Forster, Meredith, Trollope and, above all, Dickens. Bale was Managing Director of the fim from c.1914 to 1930 (see pp.272-4 et seq., plate facing p.272). 'The present position of the house as scientific and technical publishers owes simply everything to the vigour and judgement of Mr. Bale' (Waugh). AN IMPORTANT AND SCARCE ASSOCIATION COPY.
No date, 448 pages, illustrated by A.A. Dixon, spine frayed at edges. eng
Good hbk reprint in bound in blue embossed cloth, gilt spine lettering. Frontispiece. 22598. eng
Abridged edition. VG in pictorial boards. (A Purnell classic), 17192. eng
VG reprint in green half leather binding, with gilt decoration and lettering.13816. eng
Reprint. 16mo, 384 pages, illustrated. VG in red cloth, gilt spine lettering. No dust jacket. Name of a previous owner on the inside front cover. (The King's Treasuries of Literature ; 22). 39443. eng
VG hbk reprint in blue pictorial boards, gilt. Bookplate dated 1916 on the front endpaper. 16519. eng
" 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!' ... the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror" Facsimile of the 1910 volume in the Oxford World Classics Series. Introduction by Mrs F. S. Boas [ Henrietta O'Brien Boas] India paper small format edition.xxiv.466p. illus. Book
12mo, 523 pages, illustrations by Phiz and Marcus Stone. eng
Paris, E. Colin, s.d. (fine sec. XIX), in-16, mezza tela coeva con titolo e fregi in nero ed oro al dorso, pp. 96 per ciascuna opera. Con illustrazioni in b.n da disegni di Ch. Clérice e notizie biografiche su ogni autore a cura di H. Duclos. Conservata la copertina editoriale della prima opera. Collezione "Chefs d'oeuvre du Siècle illustrés".
Mm 170x240 Collana "Le vie del mondo" - Brossura editoriale con bandelle, 255 pagine. All'interno scritti di Goethe, Dumas, Hugo, Dickens, Daudet, Giacosa, Musil, Mann, Bacchelli, Glauser. Opera in ottime condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
In 16o, pp. 382, t. tela con fregi e titoli dorati al dorso e ai piatti, tavv. fotogr. f.t. a piena pag. ottimo (6688/ DICKENS - AMERICAN NOTES)
pp. xiii, 175 + Frontis by C. Stanfield. Text foxed. 185 mm. Original quarter leather with marbled boards binding. Spine perished. Boards worn. In January 1842, Charles Dickens set sail for a lecture tour in America, accompanied by his wife Catherine and her maid. In America he received a reception reminiscent of those that met mop-headed rock stars of the 1960's. Americans, expecting him to be grateful for their warm reception, were staggered when this young British goodwill ambassador, at a dinner held in his honor in Boston, dared to criticize them as copyright pirates. Though crowds began to get a bit angry, he did not back down. A week later, in Hartford, he argued that a native American literature would flourish only when American publishers were compelled by law to pay all writers their due, rather than being able to publish the works of any foreign author for free. He argued that it was a bad custom that only served to discourage literary production by American citizens. Before Dickens' visit the American people were generally uninterested in the question of the United States's joining the International Copyright Union. Book, newspaper, and magazine publishers, though, were utterly opposed, and successfully lobbied against any such move in Congress. Undaunted, Dickens circulated a pro-copyright letter which he and a number of other British writers had signed, firm in the belief of the righteousness of their cause. Dickens showed great courage but little tact in assailing American public opinion on this vexing matter while the United States was paying him honors worthy of a national liberator. That he had not mentioned this issue in advance meant that his adoring audiences, taken by surprise, felt chagrined by the criticisms of this obviously mercenary young upstart who had come to their shores to take their money at the theater door and again in the bookshop. The work itself concentrated on his (not always positive) impressions of American life. Of particularly interest are those aspects of social welfare which he took a reformer's interest in, such as the prison system, or care for people with disabilities like blindness. He also was lavish in his stinging condemnation of slavery. TRAVEL BX 5
