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185413139.1Boston: Jenks Hickling & Swan 1854. 2nd US edition Edgar & Vail p. 27; Vander Poel B500. Original dark blue publishers' cloth with gilt spine lettering/decorations & boards stamped in blind. VG spines sunned/extremity wear. 2 volumes 332; 355 pp. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Not in Gimbel nor mentioned by Wilkins. Jenks Hickling & Swan hardcover books
1902012099London/ NY: Dent/ Dutton 1902. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good . Uncommon illustrated version with drawings and decorations by Patten Wilson. Elaborately colored pictorial cloth gte rest untrimmed 493 pages. Juvenile name on pastedown in the printed device "This book belongs to." Solid copy. Dent/ Dutton hardcover books
18544125London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy in original cloth with publisher's marbled edges and endpapers. Slight bit of sunning to spines but overall in beautiful unsophisticated condition. Collation and issue points conforming to Smith. Bookplates of two previous owners to front pastedowns of each. Internally clean and unmarked. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. A superior copy accompanied by an early James F. Drake description.<br/><br/>As the only book Dickens wrote specifically for children it occupies a unique place in his' oeuvre. "Dickens' intention for the book was made manifest in the dedication at the beginning of the first volume to his 'own dear children: Whom I hope it may help bye-and-bye to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject.' This makes the purpose clear. Dickens did not intend the book to supplant or rival those books by Keightley or Macaulay that preceded it. The book rather is intended by Dickens as an exciting or interesting study of the subject which will whet his children's -- and other children's -- appetites for English history and is designed to act as a springboard to discovery" Tearle. Thus while Dickens doesn't break new ground in uncovering or analyzing history he uses his novelistic abilities to make past figures feel more real more exciting and more present and to cast long-ago events as relevant to life in his own time. Fine. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1852005281London: Bradbury and Evans 1852 1853 and 1854. First edition first issue. Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase. Fine. Beautiful full brown morocco set bound by Henry Sotheran of London with a blindstamped gilt cameo portrait as a centerpiece on each volume's front board a gilt impression of his autograph on each rear board and English or kingly devices stamped into the spine compartments a crown an abstract rose a fleur-de-lys an armorial lion. Original cloth front covers with gilt vignettes bound into respective volumes. With first issue points: "Christmas 1851" in Vol. I Dedication; missing "xi" for page number in this first volume; missing "6" for Chapter XXV Table of Contents of Vol. II. But does have "287" for page number of third volume. With ads in all volumes. Gilt edges. Gilt ruling. Light wear of custom cloth slipcase. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
1912823.8Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1912. 1st edition BAL 22662 printing II. The US imprint not in Gimbel cf. H479. Green cloth spine over tan paper boards lettered in dark green. Dust jacket. Nr Fine paper clip impression to top of first few leaves/VG spine panel darkened. 8 31 1 pp. Frontis drawing of Dickens; inserted plate from a photograph of "The Child". 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/>Wiggin at the advanced age of 12 personally expounding while on a train ride to the great writer on the "long dull" parts of his novels. The two did agree that David Copperfield was liked best by each. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1912823.6New York: Houghton Mifflin 1912. 1st edition. Green cloth spine over drab boards lettered in dark green. Nr. Fine some foxing to eps & top edge. Original cellophane wrapper still present. 32 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1912823.4New York: Houghton Mifflin 1912. 1st edition BAL 22662 printing II. Green cloth spine over drab boards lettered in dark green. Nr. Fine offset to eps/prior owner sig on ffep. A nice copy. 8 32 pp. Wove paper. No adverts at rear. Frontis from a drawing of Dickens & a plate from a photograph of "The Child". 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5" <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1983Embry 167637Dial Books 1983. First printing thus. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illus. by Michael Foreman. Dial Books, 1983. First printing thus. unknown books
1844140941524New York: Carey & Hart 1844. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt illustrated with four hand-colored lithograph plates and four uncolored. Very Good with lean to spine. Cloth a little mottled and rubbed edge-worn with shallow chipping at spine and some loss to joints. Former owner names to preliminary pages and two owner bookplates to front paste down. Pages toned and occasionally spotted one uncolored illustration is creased. Carey & Hart unknown books
18442101009Harper & Brothers 1844. first. wrappers. very good. First US edition. Rare in original wrappers. Closed tear at left edge of front cover to spine from bottom to middle. Pieces missing at rear cover and last two pages some wear. Item very good. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1902311323East Aurora New York: The Roycrofters 1902. No. 91 of 100 on Japan vellum signed "Elbert Hubbard. Frontispiece portrait. Color title-page headbands and tailpieces designed by Samuel Warner. Publisher's deluxe three quarter brown morocco gilt foliate spine t.e.g. Near fine in original marbled paper-covered fleece-lined box with printed label some soiling to box. Warner Samuel. No. 91 of 100 on Japan vellum signed "Elbert Hubbard" Frontispiece portrait. Color title-page headbands and tailpieces designed by Samuel Warner. McKenna 75; Gimbel B131 green limp leather The Roycrofters unknown books
1312690Kansas City: Hallmark Cards Inc. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-hardcover with no dust jacket; book is ex-library with classification marks on two of the pages; off white spine with gold text; boards have moderate smudges to the corners but strong; text block has minor foxing on some pages but clean and legible. 1312690. FP New Rockville Stock. Hallmark Cards, Inc hardcover books
19852305682Rexdale: B. Mitchell 1985. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Worsley John. Ink inscripion on endpaper. Newspaper clipping on Dickens laid in resulting in slight discoloration to page. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Ebenezer Scrooge a miser learns about the true meaning of Christmas from the ghost of his business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past Present and Future. B. Mitchell hardcover books
18439027004London: Chapman and Hall 1843. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in publisher's original red orange cloth with blind stamped covers and front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Four hand-colored plates by John Leech and four black and white wood engravings by W. J. Linton. A Christmas Carol has had an involved publishing history much to the delight of bibliographical detectives. According to John Eckel it was publishedon December 19th 1843 and sold 6000 copies on the first day. Before the end of the year eleven days later it was in the third edition with the combined number of copies of the second and third editions being estimated at only two to three thousand copies. This means that the second and third editions were at least two to three times scarcer than the first although not as complicated with the three states and trial copies that distinguished the first edition. During the haste of the early stages of production Dickens was trying to determine exactly how he wanted the book to appear and experimented with the color of end papers with red blue green and yellow eventually settling on yellow. On the title page he experimented with red green and blue eventually settling on red and blue as his preference. There were many textual errors corrected mostly in the second edition although not entirely. Binding variants were yet another issue. This copy has the title page printed in red and blue with the words "Third Edition" printed in blue. The end papers are yellow. This copy has the heading "Stave I" which was eventually changed to "Stave One." An error on page 49 line 2 was uncorrected remaining so in the third edition. It involved "and-bye ways" the hyphen being misplaced. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1844180718001New York: Carey & Hart 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with covers decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt illustrated with four hand-colored lithograph plates and four uncolored. Near Fine. A beautiful copy with cloth lightly rubbed with light wear at the corners and spine ends faint water splash to top edge of front cover ding across top edge. Previous owner name to title page and erased pencil to front end sheet and occasional age spotting to pages. Quite a remarkable example of this classic Dickens novel uncommon with the original cloth in such nice condition and housed in a custom clamshell case. Carey & Hart hardcover books
1910233079Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1910. 196 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth decorated in gold. About Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 196 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. IN DJ NOT IN GIMBEL. Carr B-369 copy inscribed "Christmas 1910;" not in Gimbel Henry Altemus Company unknown books
146247Philadelphia: Lippincott. Limited. hardcover. fine. Rackham Arthur. Color frontispiece and 11 other mounted color plates by Arthur Rackham. Many b/w line drawings. 4to white vellum pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Uncut edges t.e.g. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott no date 1915.<br/><br/> Limited Edition - one of only 100 copies signed by Rackham. An absolutely fine bright copy except for the missing silk ties.<br/><br/> Lippincott unknown books
20192312799Melville NY: Little Hippo 2019. Board Book. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Faint sticker remnant. 2019 Board Book. Follow Ebenezer Scrooge as he visits Christmases past present and future in this beautifully illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story. Little Hippo unknown books
2012Embry 179535Fall River 2012. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Fall River, 2012. unknown books
19951491New York: Modern Library 1995. First Modern Library edition of Dickens' classic work with an introduction by John Irving. Octavo original cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Light staining to the page edges in a very good dust jacket. In Irving's introduction he states "It was Dicken's 'fullness of heart' that caused Thackeray to praise A Christmas Carol to the skies. "Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this" Thackeray wrote. 'It seems to be a National benefit and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness." Modern Library hardcover books
1986007438New York: Macmillan Children's Books 1986. Publisher's promotional poster 22"w x 17"h featuring a charming Mercer mayer illustration. Near Fine faint creases at bottom edge. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 22" w x 17" h. Macmillan Children's Books books
19392312541New York: Pocket Books 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brazelton Julian. Collector's Edition. Lacks publisher's pamphlet. Light general wear. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas commonly known as A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder gentler man. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions including carols and newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School one of several establishments for London's street children. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. There is discussion among academics as to whether this is a fully secular story or if it is a Christian allegory. Published on 19 December the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. Most critics reviewed the novella favourably. The story was illicitly copied in January 1844; Dickens took legal action against the publishers who went bankrupt further reducing Dickens's small profits from the publication. He went on to write four other Christmas stories in subsequent years. In 1849 he began public readings of the story which proved so successful he undertook 127 further performances until 1870 the year of his death. A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film stage opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas including family gatherings seasonal food and drink dancing games and a festive generosity of spirit."--Wikipedia Pocket Books hardcover books
1930WRCLIT83432New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1930. Small folio. Publisher's Half vellum and green cloth t.e.g. gilt label. Endsheets a bit tanned at gutters with minuscule isolated rust mark to rear free endsheet upper forecorners of boards worn leather spine label chipped internally a very good copy. One of a total edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by George W. Van Vechten Jr. and Charles H. Richards in Van Krimpen's Dutch Lutetia on Tarazona papers. Initials by W.A. Dwiggins. Copies were published in two different bindings the other being 3/4 green morocco. AUCHINCLOSS 9. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
194022653New York: Holiday House 1940. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth spine and illustrated boards with paper spine label in original glassine overwrapper. Fine. Philip Reed. 148 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Printed at Chicago by the Monastery Hill Press with color lithograph drawings by Philip Reed. Almost as new copy. Holiday House hardcover books
1902293770East Aurora: Roycroft 1902. hardcover. fine. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Decorative title page printed throughout in red & black. 143pp. Slim 8vo handsomely rebound full burgundy morocco decorative gilt spine uncut edges. East Aurora: Roycroft 1902. Fine.<br/><br/> Roycroft unknown books
