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185937179London: Printed for Private Circulation by Taylor and Greening 1859. 1st edition NCBEL III 830 & 1083. PRESENTATION copy from the author INSCRIBED at the top of the t.p. 'Edward Bradley / from the author". Late 19th C. 3/4 blue morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Modest binding wear at extremities. Bookplate. A handsome VG copy. 15 1 blank pp. Binder's blanks at rear of volume. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>The notorious quarrel between two of England's most popular authors began with Yates' critical review in Town Talk of Thackeray's English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Thackeray as might be expected was a bit affronted at what he viewed as a slanderous insult by this fellow member of the Garrick Club; believing much of Yates' information came from club meetings he took his grievance to the club committee. The committee sided with Thackeray and instructed Yates to apologize; Yates refused & was forcibly barred from club premises subsequently bringing charges against the club Secretary. Dickens absent from London as this brouhaha was brewing returned to find all in full force. He offered to mediate though primarily siding with Yates which Thackeray viewed as treachery. The ill feelings between the two did not abate for years until shortly before Thackeray's death in 1863. Herein Yates recounts the history & evidence of the disagreement with not unexpectedly a bias to his own case. This copy presented to Edward Bradley presumed to be the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pen name Cuthbert M. Bede. Known in Wise facsimiles cf Todd 425c the first edition as here just twice at auction in the last 30 years the last being 1977. A rare piece of Dickensiana; the first time we've ever been able to offer the item. Printed for Private Circulation [by Taylor and Greening] hardcover books
35633London: Printed by John Parkinson Bland n. d. 2nd printing. Ca pre-WWI. Paper age-toned. Faint horizontal fold-line with stain to right margin viewed from recto. A VG copy. One sheet printed both sides. Text double column. 9-3/4" x 7-3/8" <br/><br/>Extracts from Dickens' BLEAK HOUSE. No copies on OCLC. Scarce. Printed by John Parkinson Bland unknown books
1984Embry 150292Hodder and Stoughton 1984. Lower front corner bumped else fine. Full red leather decoratively gilt. Color illus. by Frank Reynolds. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. hardcover books
WN510126New York: Hodder and Stoughton Original red cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and black decoration and rules. Modest shelf wear and several stain spashes on upper board. Pencil owner signature on ffep dated Christmas 1910. 25 full color tissue guarded illustrations. Upper board a bit bowed. Overall a fine Pickwick production. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank Reynolds. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover books
19521722.6New York: Random House 1952. 1st edition. Black cloth binding printed in red and white design and lettering. Yellow topstain. Red printed dj designed by Armitage. Slight lean VG. Jacket spine quite sunned with light overall wear. VG. 8 181 3 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1927WRCLIT39999Philadelphia: Lippincott 1927. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition U.S. issue bound from British sheets. One plate loose toward the rear tips rubbed spine ends bumped small indentation on spine but a good copy in a price-clipped modestly soiled worn and chipped dust jacket. Lippincott hardcover books
19261082.3London: Chapman and Hall Ltd 1926. 1st edition NCBEL III 791. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. VG avg wear/lt soiling to cloth/rear joint rubbed/4mm abrasion to spine. xvi 224 pp. Illustrated with plates & from b/w photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall, Ltd hardcover books
189927458Rochester & Chatham: W. & J. Mackay & Co 1899. 1st edition NCBEL III 790. Lime green cloth binding stamped in black. Subtitled on front board "A Guide to Its Places & People.". VG. A nice copy. 6 4 92 10 pp. Advert eps preliminary & terminal pages. Illustrated. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> W. & J. Mackay & Co hardcover books
1906157513New York: The Platt & Peck Co 1906. Hardcover. VG- Moderately aged overall; color illus. on front cover has a small piece missing; pages are aging lightly. Blue cloth with gilt letters and decoration stamped on spine and front cover plus color illus. laid on front cover 150 pp. BW line drawings 10 color plates. A Christmas story pulled out of Dickens' larger novel "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club." With an introduction and illustrations by George Alfred Williams. Nice! The Platt & Peck Co hardcover books
190651902New York: Baker & Taylor Company 1906. First Thus. Octavo 24cm; embossed green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on cover spine and top page edge; illustrated; 150pp. Unmarked pages and no ownership markings. spine ends gently pushed else a Fine copy lacking dustjacket as issued. Baker & Taylor Company unknown books
1910217929London: Hodder & Stoughton 1910. First edition thus. Illustrated with 25 tipped-in plates in colour by Frank Reynolds R.I. xv 174 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original red pictorial cloth. Fine. First edition thus. Illustrated with 25 tipped-in plates in colour by Frank Reynolds R.I. xv 174 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
000979New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Reynolds Frank RI. 4to - over 9¾. N.d. circa 1910. xv 174 pp. 25 color plates with captioned tissue guards. Some fairly minor soilage to original red cloth. Spine has some sunning. Light wear to corners. Slight bowing to cloth boards. Slight looseness to upper front hinge. Interior clean and tight. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
187732830Boston: James R. Osgood & Company 1877. Reprint of the extremely rare privately printed edition of 1851. 96pp. 1 vols. 24mo. Full olive-green morocco gilt cornerpieces of three-leaf clover gilt spine raised bands gilt turn-ins with floral sprays t.e.g. by WOSFORD. Fine copy. Reprint of the extremely rare privately printed edition of 1851. 96pp. 1 vols. 24mo. According to Eckel "there are only three known copies traceable" of the original edition of this little farce which Dickens wrote with Mark Lemon editor of Punch for the Guild of Literature and Art and that the pamphlet from which this reprint was made was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. This is an exceptionally fine copy of the reprint which is in itself becoming very scarce. Eckel pp. 165-66 James R. Osgood & Company unknown books
1877WRCLIT58762Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. 12mo. Full green crushed levant spine gilt extra adverts and original cloth covers bound in rear by Riviere. Bookplate rebacked with the Riviere backstrip laid down otherwise a very good copy. First U.S. and first public edition preceded by a rare private printing of which Eckel traced three copies. A fourth copy from which this edition was supposedly set up was reported destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. Dickens's text is a greatly altered version of a work by Mark Lemon. ECKEL pp. 164-5 GIMBEL B215. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
18771042Boston: James R. Osgood & Co 1877. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 16mo. 96pp. bound in original green cloth decorated in black lettering gilt. According to Eckel there are only 3 known copies of the original edition privately printed in 1851 which Dickens wrote with Mark Lemon the editor of Punch. Inner hinges cracked minor wear at extremities; very good. Housed in a unique green cloth slipcase. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood & Co hardcover books
18779027957Boston: James R. Osgood & CO 1877. 1st. Bound in original green cloth decorated in black lettering gilt on front cover and spine advertisements on endpapers. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood & CO hardcover books
1877107521877. A Farce in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth from which Osgood printed this edition was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. This is a volume in the publisher's "Vest Pocket Series" so named for its diminutive size a second Dickens "comic burletta" was published in this series the same year -- IS SHE HIS WIFE. This copy is terra-cotta in color; others are green without priority. It is a bright near-fine copy minor rubbing at the tips one small mark on the fore-edge of the leaves -- quite uncommon in this condition. Eckel pp 64-5. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1922WRCLIT37629New York: Putnam 1922. Gilt cloth and boards t.e.g. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Bookplate lower corners worn spine faded but near very good lacking the dust jacket. Putnam hardcover books
1871WRCLIT26638London 1871. 4pp. Octavo leaflet. Modest nick crease and dustmarking to corner of lower leaf otherwise a very nice copy. First edition. The separately printed text of a letter from the son of Richard Bentley the publisher addressed to the editor of THE TIMES taking issue with the depiction of certain financial dealings between Dickens and his father as portrayed in the first volume of Forster's LIFE OF DICKENS then just published. The specifics relate to OLIVER TWIST BARNABY RUDGE and Dickens' editorial duties attending BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. A very uncommon and interesting ephemeron. unknown books
185540533Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1855. 1st US book publication. Original publisher's printed buff-paper wrappers sewn. Edgewear & soiling to wrappers with spine paper mostly perished. Damping to lower corner of last couples leaves with a bit of adhesion. A Good copy. 29 1 pp. Text double column. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>King presently an enigma in literary history. we know Dickens published two of her stories in Household Words with this being the second preceded by "Why My Uncle was a Bachelor" February 11 1854. On receipt of this story submission Dickens wrote her that he found "very great merit" in the effort. The story was seriallized in 3 issues beginning May 12 1855. Cf. Lohrli HOUSEHOLD WORDS 1973. <br /> <br />OCLC records 2 institutional holdings. <br /> <br />Rare. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
198210194Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press 1982. 1st edition. Hardback. Green dust jacket. A Nr Fine copy in a similar jacket. vii 3 193 3 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> The John Hopkins Press hardcover books
1928WRCLIT40704London: Victor Gollancz 1928. Quarto. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. Very good in spine-darkened soiled dust jacket with chipping to the spine ends small loss to head of spine and two old inner tape mends. First edition denoted the "Edition de Luxe" consisting of 250 copies printed on Unbleached Arnold paper and signed by Sir Henry. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1853119805London: G. Routledge & Co 1853. Finely bound example of Dickens' popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco by Baytun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands double gilt rulings and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi with illustrations by George Cruikshank. From the library of Albert Hooper with his bookplate to the pastedown. In fine condition. An exquisite example. After the legendary pantomime's death Dickens was invited by Richard Bentley to edit and improve Thomas Egerton Wilks's clumsily written Life of Grimaldi which had been based on the clown's own notes which Dickens did under his regular nom de plume "Boz". As a child Dickens saw Grimaldi perform at the Star Theatre Rochester in 1820. The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi illustrated by George Cruikshank sold well to Dickens's surprise. G. Routledge & Co unknown books
183816547London: Richard Bentley 1838. Full leather. Near Fine. George Cruikshank. The 1838 true 1st edition with no border to "The Last Song" in a sumptuous light-blue full-leather binding. 5 raised bands highly-decorative gilt-ornamented compartments along the spine. Clean tight and Near Fine and internally bordering on immaculate with no writing or markings of any kind. 12mos all edges gilt full-page illustrations thruout by the great George Cruikshank. Also includes a handsome custom-made blue-cloth slipcase housing the set. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
183887016London: Richard Bentley 1838. 1st ed. 1st issue last plate without border. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. 13 black & white plates including frontises xix 4 1 288 ix 1 263p. plus 36p. publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. II. Rebound in polished calf. Portions of original variant ribbed dark cloth binding backstrip and front and back covers bound in at ends of both volumes. 20cm. Modest scuffing. Joints a bit tender. Internally sound and clean. Top edge gilt. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
