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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
197441825NY:: Macmillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. Color photographs by Eric Storey. First American edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
186328002New York: Sheldon & Company 1863. With frontispieces. 14 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards black title labels near fine. With frontispieces. 14 vols. 8vo. Sheldon & Company unknown books
1937180310005Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's variously-colored buckram with leather spine labels gilt top stains. Complete in 23 volumes plus cloth slipcased original steel plate by Phiz for the illustration "Mr. Moddle is both particular and peculiar in is attentions" from Martin Chuzzlewit a print pulled from it as well as a letter of authenticity signed by an officer at Chapman & Hall Ltd. Also includes clothbound Nonesuch Dickensia and wrappered Sample Pages: The Nonesuch Dickens booklet. Very Good overall with slight sunning to spines a few head and tails slightly frayed especially Printing Plate case and foot of David Copperfield slight shelf wear a few spine labels slightly chipped. An attractive set. An attempt by renowned British private press The Nonesuch Press to create the definitive collection of the works of Charles Dickens with their signature fusion of technologies from different eras of publishing using hand press type and the original printing plates and wood blocks for many of the illustrations herein. The plates and wood blocks were then dispersed one per set creating a limitation of 877. The pleasant rainbow of colors by the bindings the thoroughness of the scholarship etc. made The Nonesuch Dickens an immediate hit with book collectors and it remains so to this day. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1908800591908. DICKENS Charles. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS EDITION DE LUXE 14 VOLUMES. Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Company 1908. One of 1000 copies unnumbered although limitation page states the sets are numbered. Volumes I - IX XI - XV. 8vo. half deep green leather sunned to caramel brown at spine with gilt spine lettering and decoration over green marbled paper covered boards. Seven volumes are slightly chipped at crown. Volume II is split at the front joint backstrip only binding intact. Top edges brightly gilt many pages unopened. Monochrome frontispiece and plates with title pages decorated in red and green. "With Introductions Arguments etc." Spines are headed "Dickens' Works". Near fine overall. As follows: I. Bleak House. 888 pp. II. Pickwick Papers. 817 pp. III. Our Mutual Friend. 857 pp. IV. David Copperfield. 882 pp. V. Nicholas Nickleby. 846 pp. VI. Dombey and Son. 898 pp. VII. Martin Chuzzlewit. 865 pp. VIII. Little Dorrit. 860 pp. IX. Christmas Books Christmas Stories. 411 512 pp. XI. Barnaby Rudge Hard Times. 646 269 pp. XII. A Tale of Two Cities Uncommercial Traveller Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices No Thoroughfare. 358 102 127 350 pp. XIII. The Old Curiosity Shop Reprinted Pieces. 551 352 pp. XIV. Great Expectations Master Humphrey's Clock Mugby Junction Mystery of Edwin Drood. 461 115 63 263 pp. XV. Child's History of England Pictures From Italy Hunted Down Holiday Romance George Silverman's Explanation American Notes. 393 178 23 36 252 pp. One closed tear p. 26 4th section. unknown books
1900WRCLIT83431London: Merrill & Baker 1900. Cloth paper spine label t.e.g. Frontis illustrations. A volume in the "Edition de Grandluxe" limited to 500 numbered copies. Spine label faded tips rubbed else a near fine unopened copy. Merrill & Baker hardcover books
254470Boston: Jefferson Press. hardcover. near fine. 15 volumes. 8vo 3/4 black morocco marbled boards topedge gilt. Boston & New York: Jefferson Press no date ca. 1900. Near fine.<br/><br/> Edition de Luxe<br/><br/> Jefferson Press unknown books
18837291New York. G.W. Carleton and Co. 1883. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated green cloth. Thick 12mo. Carleton's new illustrated edition. Illustrated by Leech H.K. Browne phiz Cruikshank et al. Some occasional light wear to extremities. Several signatures in several volumes a bit shaken but firm. A Very Good handsomely bound complete set of Dickens. G.W. Carleton and Co. hardcover books
19081599London: Chapman and Hall 1908. The National Edition. Limited to 750 sets printed for England and America. this set unnumbered. Forty large octavo volumes. With approximately 1000 illustrations with plates by Cruikshank Browne Leech et al. Title-pages printed in red and black. With many reproductions or the original parts wrappers on colored paper.<br/><br/>Volume I with an envelope signed by Dickens and an ALS by John Foster Dickens' biographer. On the first blank of volume I is a mounted small envelope addressed by Dickens to Edward Chapman his publisher and signed by Dickens on the lower left corner. Facing that page is a mounted autograph letter signed by John Foster Dickens' friend and biographer addressed to George Cattermole the artist who illustrated The Old Curiosity Shop. Foster letter is on stationery and is dated 21 September 1860. Two sixteenmo pages on one octavo sheet folded.<br/><br/>Set is uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in half brown levant morocco over brown cloth. Morocco double ruled in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt and compartments triple-ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt others uncut. Spines slightly sunned and some occasional minor rubbing and shelfwear. Overall a very attractive and near fine set. Chapman and Hall unknown books
320971London: Chapman and Hall Limited 11 Henrietta Street Covent Garden nd. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by William Clownes. 15 vols. 8vo. Half red morocco and marbled boards marbled edges. Very Good. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by William Clownes. 15 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall, Limited 11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1876313201London: Chapman and Hall 193 Piccadilly Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1876. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by Virtue & Co. London. 30 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter green morocco t.e.g. by Stikeman & Co. for Charles Scribner's Books. Fine. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by Virtue & Co. London. 30 vols. 8vo. "This the best edition of my books is of right inscribed to my dear friend John Forster biographer of Oliver Goldsmith in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel sympathy and faithful friendship during my whole literary life" dedication leaf in Volume I of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
19235875.3London: Ben Johnson & Co 1923. 1st editon. Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Spine sunned. General wear. Offset to eps. Very Good. 145 1 advert pp. illustrated with drawings by E. Ridsdale Tate. 12mo. <br/><br/> Ben Johnson & Co hardcover books
1973WRCLIT40831New York: Taplinger 1973. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Near fine in spine- sunned dust jacket with a small closed tear to the toe of the spine. Taplinger hardcover books
1924WRCLIT37748New York: Brick Row Book Shop 1924. Cloth and boards paper spine label. Illustrations. First edition. Endsheets darkened small ink squiggle on last leaf bit of soiling to cloth one corner worn but a very good partly unopened copy. Brick Row Book Shop hardcover books
19241531New York: Brick Row Book Shop 1924. 1st editon. Paper backed boards. No dust jacket. VG general wear from use/corners bumped/spine label chipped at edges. 83 pp. 11 illustrations after Seymour. 12mo. <br/><br/> Brick Row Book Shop hardcover books
198448688New York: Quill 1984. Paperback. 286p. 8.5x11 inches profusely-illustrated with b&w film stills lightly-worn first Quill printing trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Quill paperback books
305862New York Quill 1984. First Quill Edition so stated. 4to. Illustrated with b/w halftone photographs. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. 266 pages original pictorial stiff wrappers. No signatures or bookplates. Provenance: from the estate of Charles Williamson. Soft cover. Fine. New York, Quill, 1984. paperback books
1887WRCLIT17486London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1887. White boards stamped in black with lurid and intricate pictorial design. Spine and edges a bit foxed or dust spotted otherwise a very nice copy of an extremely fragile book. First edition probable later state of the binding with an inserted 16pp. catalogue listing titles issued in 1893. An early and uncommon consideration of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by the writer most widely known for his popularizations of astronomy. Gimbel lists two copies neither binding described but one denoted a "variant" as here. GIMBEL H375. W.H. Allen & Co. hardcover books
1887WRCLIT34609London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1887. Contemporary three quarter gilt roan t.e.g. original spine and front panel of the clothbound issue bound in. Extremities worn but a good sound copy. First edition with a catalogue dated December 1887 bound in. An early and uncommon consideration of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by the writer most widely known for his popularizations of astronomy. Gimbel lists two copies neither binding described. GIMBEL H375. W.H. Allen & Co. hardcover books
18871002.2London: W. H. Allen & Co. 13 Waterloo Place 1887. 1st edition Cox 1124; NCBEL III 808; Sadleir 707a. Slate grey diaper cloth w/ gilt spine & cover lettering. VG minor wear at h/t of spine. i-viii 1-166 pp. Ads dated December 1887. Sm. Octavo. <br/><br/> W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place hardcover books
197234044Windsor: Profile Publications 1972. Paperback. Very good. Ink name on inside of rear edges tanned else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Profile Publications paperback books
186045828London: Partridge and Co 1860. 1st Edition. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Custom blue quarter-leather clamshell case. Volume with extremity wear & rubs. Bookplate of Samuel Meeks. Slightly shaken. Overall VG. Case with rubs to front joint which is starting at the bottom VG. viii 152 pp. Errata slip tipped-in prior to Contents page. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>From the publisher's preliminary note "The writer begs to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Charles Dickens who has permitted him to reprint his Contributions to 'Household Words.' He has partially availed himself of this permission by including 'Sleep' 'Unopened Buds' and 'A Lost Treasure' in the present volume and reserves other contributions for a future collection." A pasted-in bookseller slip & handwritten penciled note to the ffep attribute these 3 poems to Dickens however we note from Lohrli these poems were actually written by one unidentified individual by the name of "Harris" presumed author of the this entire volume of verse. OCLC records 3 holding institutions only one in the US. Rare in the trade. Partridge and Co hardcover books
1973151680Detroit: Harlo Press 1973. Hardcover. 190p. second printing shelf worn rubbed and chipped dj illustrated by African American artist Jimmy Coates. The editors - both prisoners one white the other black - present a collection of essays and stories that include a story by Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter "The Return of the Kid Harlo Press hardcover books
18806045661880. not signed on 3/4 length portrait of Dickens wearing a dark vest long coat white shirt silk tie and a gold watch chain looking to the left of the camera. Photograph is on the original photographer's mount 2 1/2" x 4" 1/4 with Gurney & Sons Fifth Ave. N.Y. on the lower mount. very good. ca. 1880. With imprint of Gurney Fifth Avenue Cor. 16th St. N.Y. on the verso. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
192641365.1London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd 1926. 1st edition. LIMITED to 400 copies. Quarter-bound maroon cloth spine over beige cloth boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Purple printed paper DJ. Light wear & soiling to volume. VG - VG. Dust Jacket with sunned spine & significant edge chipping. Good. lxx 230 pp. Partially unopened. Many inserted plates. Royal 8vo. 10-1/2" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd hardcover books
