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185534706London: Effingham Wilson 11 Royal Exchange 1855. 1st edition Eckel p. 235; Fielding SPEECHES pp 197 - 208; Gimbel B-237. Not in Kitton's DICKENSIANA. Original printed self-wrappers sewn. "Price Twopence.". Wrappers soiled. A VG copy. 11 1 pp. Pagination includes wrappers. Printed by M. S. Rickerby London. 12mo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>The British populace exhibited little anger at the Army's 'miserable plight' in Crimea as well as to the public exposure of the Administration's ineptitude leading to such a deplorable state. Dickens was "alarmed by the defeat abroad and apathy at home." This speech fulfilled Dickens' promise to speak on behalf of administrative reform. Uncommon in the original wrappers. Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange unknown books
1909923Boston: Bibliophile Society 1909. 1st edition. Wrappers. Gd edgewear/soiling. 17 pp. Unopened. 8vo. <br/><br/>1st unedited printing of this speech which championed the need for sanitary reform. Bibliophile Society unknown books
1909923.1Boston: Bibliophile Society 1909. 1st edition. Wraps. Abt VG edgewear/soiling. 17 pp 8vo. <br/><br/>1st unedited printing of this speech which championed the need for sanitary reform. Laid in is a prospectus for a Bibliophile Society Publication Keats & Fiske. Bibliophile Society paperback books
1855121681855. at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Wednesday June 27 1855. London: Effingham Wilson 1855. Original printed self-wrappers. First Edition of this speech Dickens gave to the Administrative Reform Association. Dickens was a founding member of this organization that lambasted the government for its indifference to the plight of the common man. Dickens was unable to be present when Austen Henry Layard addressed a meeting at Drury Lane on June 20th but he was entirely in accord with what Layard said. The evidence of government blue books Layard charged revealed "records of inefficiency records of indifference to suffering records of ignorance records of obstinacy" that were a shame to the nation. The Civil Service was grossly overstaffed with men busy making work for each other. Lord Palmerston personally he denounced for an attitude of levity toward the sufferings of the people. Stung by the attack Lord Palmerston retorted with a sneer about "the private theatricals at Drury Lane." And Dickens fired with indignation determined that such a creature "as this Lord Palmerston" must have it rung "into his soul or what stands for it that the time for Dandy insolence is gone for ever." At a second Drury Lane gathering on the 27th. Johnson It is said that the mood Dickens exhibited giving this address mirrored the mood of the novel he was then writing -- NOBODY'S FAULT the name was changed just before publication to LITTLE DORRIT. This copy properly reads "eighteen hundred" on the first page of text which means that it is not the very first and very scarce issue; however this copy does not have the printer Rickerby mentioned on the title page -- his name was added to only the latest issues. In our experience this mixed issue is the one usually encountered -- though any issue in original wrappers is quite uncommon. Just a bit of soil on the blank rear cover otherwise this copy is fine. Podeschi B237; Eckel p. 235. unknown books
186227185.4London 1862. 1st edition NCBEL III 813. Original printed paper self-wrappers stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning to paper with some extremity wear to wrappers. Offset oval to p. 1. Withal a solid VG copy. 48 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> unknown books
18622221.3Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1862. 1st US edition later issue ca 1867 cf. Edgar & Vail p. 29. Original printed salmon-colored paper wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette to front wrapper. Modest roll to volume. Minor edge rash to wrappers with front wrapper nearly detached. An Abt VG copy. 4 21 - 86 10 pp. Text double column. Adverts last 10 pages. Last bolt unopened. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>A scarce piece of US Dickensiana; not noted in the Gimbel collection. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
195710222Philadelphia: Printed as a Christmas Greeting for Samuel A. Dalton 1957. 1st edition thus. #247/1000cc. Dark brown faux-leather spine with tan boards. Lacks slipcase. Nr Fine. 80 pp. Decorations & illustrations by Ray Abruzzi. Oblong 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed as a Christmas Greeting for Samuel A. Dalton hardcover books
192741521.1Philadelphia: Lippincott 1927. Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Spine a bit dull. Bookplate. Very Good. 284 4 blank pp. Bound from the British sheets. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Lippincott hardcover books
1927975.5London: Cecil Palmer 1927. 1st edition. Light blue cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Blue topstain. Printed pale yellow dust jacket. VG slt cock/VG spine panel sunned/some wear. 284 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Cecil Palmer hardcover books
WRCLIT40805Philadelphia: Lippincott nd. Gilt blue cloth. Illustrations. First or early U.S. issue of the British sheets. Edges rubbed else very good or better lacking the dust jacket. Lippincott hardcover books
19077160Pittsburgh: Privately Printed 1907. 1st edition Gimbel D160. Ltd to 200cc. Green wrappers. Text w/ deckled edges. VG spine starting to brown/slt foxing to prelims. 10 pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/>10 letters then in the possession of Wilkins now published for the first time. Begins with a letter to Longhurst written in 1832. The concluding 6 are to fellow author William Howitt. Privately Printed unknown books
19262740.6New York: Frederick Stokes 1926. 1st US edition. Blue cloth binding lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. VG spine slightly sunned. xvi 350 pp including Index. Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. <br/><br/> Frederick Stokes hardcover books
193244498London: Rich & Cowan Ltd 1932. 1st Edition. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. A bit cocked. Spine dull. Lacking ffep. Withal a VG copy. 317 3 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Rich & Cowan Ltd hardcover books
18458695New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First American Edition. Half calf. Very good. 12mo. 2iv100pp. BOUND WITH: Duff Gordon Lady Trans. and editor. THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS. I. A Soldier of the Foreign Legion. II. The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader. New York: Wiley and Putnam. 1845. x178pp. BOUND WITH: Dickens Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1846. vii1184pp. The three works bound together in cont. half calf ornately gilt spines. Hinges a bit rubbed but quite sound. First American editions of three works published by Wiley and Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading." The first 2 have a half-title identifying the series the Dickens title does not but it does not seem to call for a half-title. The series note was on the original wrappers or cloth. The first two works are both fiction. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
183834870Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1838. 16mo 13.5 cm 5.3". 111 1 pp. <br><br>with Dickens Charles. Sketches of young gentlemen. Dedicated to young ladies. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1838. 108 2 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â First American editions of these two works together as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Young ladies and young gentlemen are humorously categorized under their various types: including for the former Romantic Evangelical Literary Manly Hyperbolical Abstemious and others and for the latter Bashful Military Political Censorious Funny etc. While the first work was often attributed to Dickens when originally published anonymously in 1837 it was actually written by humorist Caswall in a voice very much like Dickens's; the second work first printed in 1838 is => genuine Dickens. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 49619. Publisher's violet cloth; front cover and spine faded to tan the former with a printed paper label somewhat chipped and front cover showing tiny spots of discoloration and pinholes in cloth. Pages age-toned with intermittent mild spotting; a few lower outer corners bumped and middle section with dent to upper outer margin. A copy much read; still both highly readable and => highly entertaining. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard hardcover books
18372160London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Three quarter contemporary calf. Rare first edition featuring six full-page illustrations by Phiz. Together with the same title Sixth Edition Bound also in three quarter calf. Both very good tight copies with some wear and browntoning. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
1838215225London: Chapman and Hall 1838. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full green morocco a.e.g. Spine tanned upper joint tender else Fine. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
18389769.2London: Chapman & Hall 1838. 4th edition cf. Eckel p. 104 & Smith II p. 1 for the 1st edition. Modern green cloth binding sympathetic to the original with a facsimile front board onlay duplicating the original front wrapper which is bound in at front. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG. viii 76 4 pp. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis 5 inserted plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. <br/><br/>Dickens' riposté to Quiz's less-than-PC 'Ladies.' Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1838143821838. Dedicated to Young Ladies. Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Blanchard 1838. Original dark green cloth with front cover label.<br/><br/> First American Edition. Dickens wrote this as a protest against SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES pseudonymously written by "Quiz" subsequently attributed to Rev. Edward Caswall the year before. That volume classified these "interesting members of the animal kingdom" in such groups as "Lazy Young Lady" "Stupid Young Lady" "Petting Young Lady" and "Manly Young Lady." To quote from Dickens's "Dedication to the Young Ladies": Your Dedicator is humbly of opinion that so many libels upon your Honourable sex were never contained in any previously published work. Although your Dedicator is not at present prepared to deny that you are animals still he humbly submits that it is not polite to call you so. Your Dedicator humbly suggests that such of your Honourable sex as purchased the bane should possess themselves of the antidote and that those of your Honourable sex who were not rash enough to take the first should lose no time in swallowing the last -- prevention being in all cases better than cure. This Philadelphia volume contains first Caswall's LADIES by "Quiz" and then Dickens's GENTLEMEN anonymous -- no "Boz" each with its own title page dated 1838 and reading "from the last London edition." The front cover label does attribute the second piece -- to "Quiz Junior"; the half-title at the beginning of the volume reads "Sketches of Young Ladies" and then in a different i.e. added font "and Young Gentlemen." This is a very good copy of this delicate volume still in its original two-in-one binding with front cover label. There is a damp-mark "tide-line" about a quarter-inch up on all leaves in the margin only and on the blank dark green cloth spine is faintly inked the title. This is a scarce book in original state. Smith pp 1-4 wherein he notes that this edition was published in mid-March 1838 and Wiley & Putnam's on June 15th; no American edition is cited for Yale in Podeschi see B63; not cited for Univ. of Texas in Carr but see the Wiley & Putnam edition at B473; not cited in Wilkins. Provenance: signed in pencil by bibliographer Walter Smith this is the copy described and photographed in his 2019 book. unknown books
1869143831869. By Quiz sic. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Cassell Petter and Galpin; and 596 Broadway New York n.d. 1869. 2 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt black and red beveled. First American Collected Edition of all three "Sketches" -- two of which actually were written by Charles Dickens. In 1837 SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES had been pseudonomously written by "Quiz" actually Rev. Edward Caswall -- classifying these "members of the animal kingdom" into such categories as "Lazy Young Ladies" "Stupid Young Ladies" "Petting Young Ladies" and "Manly Young Ladies." The following year Dickens wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN anonymously -- not even using his pseudonym "Boz" as a protest against the earlier book -- in fact urging women to read his book on men as the "antidote" for Caswall's earlier one. Finally Dickens also wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES published anonymously in 1840 and in England all three were published together in 1843. The first two titles LADIES and GENTLEMEN were in 1838 collected in one volume both by Carey Lea & Blanchard and by Wiley & Putnam but this 1869 volume was the first American to collect all three -- albeit inaccurately ascribing them all to "Quiz." This copy with the American address added to the title page is what Smith calls a "subsidiary edition" or "the American issue of the English impression." This is a handsomely bound book with binding design initialed "WR" by the Scottish binding designer William Ralston. It is in very good-plus condition minor wear at the extremities endpapers cracked. Smith pp 5-8; Podeschi/Gimbel Yale D56; not in Carr UTexas. Provenance: signed in pencil by Walter Smith this is the copy described and photographed in his 2019 bibliography. unknown books
42446Dundee Edinburgh London: Valentine & Sons n. d. 1st edition thus. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. TEG. Patterned paper eps. Spine severely sunned. Faint cup rings. Very Good. 128 pp. Color frontis & 4 inserted color plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> Valentine & Sons hardcover books
187658216London: Chapman and Hall 1876. F. Barnard. 8vo pp. viii 240 with 34 B & W illustrations. BOUND WITH: DICKENS Charles THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB with Fifty-Seven illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 400. Bound in 3/4 calf. A very good clean copy. Two works bound together with 91 illustrations. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1841146201841. illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined and first American Illustrated Edition -- later 1841 printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY BOZ were published in 1836-1837 first in the UK and soon after by Carey Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia. Following that on both sides of the Atlantic the two series were combined with plates by Cruikshank and issued first in monthly parts in 1838-1839 and then in cloth in 1839; this is Lea & Blanchard's second printing of that 1839 combined edition. This copy is in the original cloth and is in very good condition a bit of wear at the spine ends one short marginal tear on a plate. Smith p. 23 he notes this copy -- with New Bedford bookseller's ticket. unknown books
1837288239London: John Macrone 1837. Second Series. Quarter Leather. Good binding. First Edition Second Issue of Charles Dickens' first published book. Lacking the half title 'Contents' leaf and publisher's advertisement at the rear. With frontispiece; additional title page engraved; and eight additional plates. Foxing to the plates and opposite pages. Rubbing to the boards; loss to the top edge of the spine and to the spine label. Half calf with remnants of a black leather label over marbled paper boards. All edges marbled. John C. Eckel First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens 12-13 pp. Good binding. John Macrone unknown books
183732358Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. 1st US edition of the complete Second Series American Imprints 44049; Edgar & Vail p. 16; Gimbel A9; McGuire Catalogue 9; Vander Poel B6. Not seen by Wilkins cf. p. 11. Original drab paper-wrapped boards with pink cloth spine & printed paper title label to spine. Chemised and housed in a handsome quarter-leather slipcase. Chemise & Slipcase - Fine. Book - Good only cloth splitting along joints/label present though lettering difficult to read/usual foxing & staining throughout. viii 9 - 203 3 blank pp. 12mo in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Printed in an edition of 1250cc in February 1837 cf. Kaser 630. Carey Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
