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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Hard Times for These Times‎

‎New York: Limited Editions Club 1966. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Raymond Charles. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Introduction by John T. Winterich. 279pp. Small 4to cloth-backed boards board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1966. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 123814

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎HARD TIMES FOR THESE TIMES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA DICKENS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD SCOLLINS‎

‎Barre MA: Imprint Society 1972. Small folio. Black morocco-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Frontis illustrations. First Imprint Society edition. One of 1950 copies this copy not numbered signed by the illustrator. Spine ends lightly rubbed else about fine in pictorial paper slipcase. Imprint Society hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT59645

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Hard Times. For These Times‎

‎London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original green blind- and gilt-tooled cloth pale yellow glazed endpapers; viii325pp. Spine a bit cocked and toned to tan covers show some faint dampstaining minor edge wear hinges starting to crack but still holding. Very Good overall. GIMBEL A136; SMITH I 11. Bradbury & Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 21838

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Hard Times. For These Times.‎

‎London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. First edition in book form of Dickens' attack on the living conditions of England's mid-19th century industrial cities. Octavo original green cloth blindstamped with gilt titles to the spine including the "Price 5/-" in gilt at the base of the spine and p.244 misnumbered as 44. From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' stepfather Hugh D. Auchincloss. Auchincloss married Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' mother Janet Lee Bouvier in 1942. His great grandfather John W. Auchincloss built the 28-room Victorian mansion Hammersmith Farm in 1887 which would later become Jaqueline's childhood home and the site of the reception of her 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy. With the previous owner Albert Henry Wiggin's card laid in. American banker Albert H. Wiggin amassed a large fine art and book collection in the early to mid 20th century much of which he later donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Art and Boston Public Library. In very good condition with the half-title present which is often lacking. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase. Initially published serially in Household Words between April and August of 1854 Hard Times was published in book form almost immediately following the final serial in 1854. Viewed as a departure from Dickens' previous tales the work presents what was to become an increasingly somber picture of contemporary society in Dickens' works. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay focused on Dickens' treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism in regards to the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era. F. R. Leavis a great admirer of the book included it - but not as a whole - in his Great Tradition of English novels. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108032

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume VII : June to November 1853‎

‎Harper and Brothers 1853. Fair. Dickens Charles. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume VII : June to November 1853. New York: Harper and Brothers 1853. 864pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 3/4 Leather. Book condition: Fair. Light rubbing to extremities. Edges bumped and exposed. Hinges are weak. Contains Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Harper and Brothers hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume XXXI : June to November 1865‎

‎Harper and Brothers 1865. Fair. Dickens Charles. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume XXXI : June to November 1865. New York: Harper and Brothers 1865. 816pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 3/4 Leather. Book condition: Fair. Light rubbing to extremities. Edges bumped and exposed. Hinges are weak. Contains Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Harper and Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : UDICHAR10NJ

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Histoires policières‎

‎Calmann-Lévy Broché D'occasion comme neuf 05/06/2002 128 pages‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Holiday Romance In Four Parts in Our Young Folks Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls Vol. IV No. 2‎

‎1868. Contains the last six issues of Vol. IV. Hardcover. Good wear and chipping to cover slight yellowing to page edges. Brown cloth black leather spine and cornes. 384 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 29193

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎HOME And SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY; or Chapters on Every-Day Topics‎

‎New York: Bunce & Brother 1854. 1st edition thus. Original brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering/spine decoration. Abt VG chiipping to hd & tail of spine/wear at lower corner tips. 234 pp sm 8vo. <br/><br/>A somewhat uncommon collection taken from Dickens Household Words. Bunce & Brother hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 5409

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Household Words‎

‎DICKENS Charles. Household Words. A Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens. "Familiar in their mouths as Household Words." Shakepeare. New York: Published by McElrath & Barker 1854. First American edition. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Covers have small tears along extremities with some chipping to top and bottom of spine with loss. Small stain to right hand corner of book mostly to beginning. Overall very good. HBS 66219. $200 Published by McElrath & Barker unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66219

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Household Words a Weekly Journal‎

‎London; from March 30 1850-May 28 1859: Bradbury and evans. Octavo. In 19 volumes double-column. A weekly collection of stories a mixture of fiction and nonfiction along with social issues of the time. While Dickens was the editor and he did serialize a few of his stories through this magazine it have several "unnamed" contributors. An American edition was published but not well received as it pertained to the English way of life not American. Complete London editions are scarce. A complete set bound in 3/4 contemporary red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled. raised bands gilt title within one compartment gilt. All hinges and joints are fine and tight internally clean and bright without foxing. Some rubbing or darkening to bindings. From the library Joseph Greene with his armorial bookplate. A very nice set containing six of the nine extra Christmas numbers. (Bradbury and evans) unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 021131

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎IS SHE HIS WIFE‎

‎1877. or Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. Original green cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition being a volume in Osgood's diminutive "Vest-Pocket Series." We say first "collectible" edition of this play first performed in 1837 because the only known copy of the first edition from which Osgood printed this edition was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879 and there are only five known copies three of which are in institutions of the wrappered second edition London circa 1869-1871. This copy is in bright green cloth; others are in terra-cotta cloth without priority. It is a fine bright copy -- the only flaw being a short closed tear in the edge of the front free endpaper the front paste-down bears the armorial bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson 1841-1915. Podeschi Yale B62; Eckel pp 159-161. Housed in a magnificent full-morocco clamshell case lined in velvet and silk moiré that bears the gilt monogram S&S the binder Sangorski & Sutcliffe. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Is She His Wife‎

‎First Obtainable Printing of "Is She His Wife or Something Singular" DICKENS Charles. Is She His Wife or Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. First obtainable printing. Sixteenmo. 80pp. Original brown cloth decoratively blocked in black and blind lettered in gilt and black. Off-white endpapers printed in red. A fine bright copy. Housed in a custom maroon cloth slipcase black morocco label on spine gilt-stamped. Apparently no copy exists of the first 1837 edition of this play Dickensí third published play first performed 6 March 1837; this is the only published work by Dickens to which this situation applies. The Gimbel collection has playbills for performances on 13 March and 6 April 1837. Eckel mentions that the only known copy of this edition was at Osgood for their 1877 reprint and was subsequently destroyed in a fire there in 1879. A census in Eckel finds only three extant copies of the 1873 British reprint. Thus the Osgood reprint of 1877 is the first obtainable printing of this piece. The Gimbel collection does have a copy of the 1873 English probably the one mentioned by Eckel as lacking the back wrapper; the extensive McQuire collection of American Dickens did not have a copy; Vander Poel had both green and brick cloth variants of the 1877 as did Gimbel. Eckel 159ff. Gimbel B62. Carr VanderPoel Dickens B530 1 & 2. HBS 66292. $1250 James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 66292

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Ivy Green‎

‎"The Ivy Green" From the Pickwick Papers DICKENS Charles. RUSSELL Henry composer. The Ivy Green. Written by Charles Dickens ESQ. Composed by Henry Russell. London: M & N. Hanhart N.d. ca. 1838. Folio. Measures 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Folio. Illustrated printed wrappers with four pages of music from "Pickwick Papers." Stich marks on spine where pages where taken out from a larger volume. Cut a bit short on the bottom through text small blindstamp light pencil notations on front cover. Very good. Not in Eckel. HBS 67259. $200 M & N. Hanhart unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 67259

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Le grillon du foyer. Le possédé et le pacte du fantome. Conte de Noël.Traduits de l'anglais par André de Goy‎

‎Paris: J. Bry ainé 1850. 4to pp. 40; drawings and engraved illustrations by Ed. Frère and Rouget; disbound remnants of former binding; some dampstaining and foxing along edges; a good copy of an early French translation of Dickens's Christmas book "The Cricket on the Hearth" published here with "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" originally published in 1848 and 8 "Poésies nouvelles" by André Lemoyne pp. 39-40. Together forms one issue of the literary magazine "Veillées Litteraires Illustrées". OCLC locates one copy in the United States at the College of William and Mary. Not in Gimbel. <br/><br/> J. Bry ainé unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 39237

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Letters of Charles Dickens to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts‎

‎London: Murray 1931. First. hardcover. very good. Edited by Charles C. Osborne. Frontis. illustrated. xii 205pp. two-toned cloth; upper corners bumped minor spotting to front and rear covers. London: John Murray 1931. First edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Murray unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 236255

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎LIFE & ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT‎

‎LONDON GRESHAM PUB. CO. 1912 1912. HALF MAROON MOROCCO OVER MATCHING CLOTH GILT STAMPED SPINE SLIGHT FADING GRAY ENDPAPERS; COLOR FRONTISPIECE BY J.H.F. BACON; 8 B/W PLATES BY FRED PEGRAM FIRST EDITION THUS "STANDARD EDITION" VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. LONDON, GRESHAM PUB. CO. 1912 hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 193115

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby The‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First Edition in the Original Cloth<br/>A Very Early Issue Bound From The Original Parts<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall 1839. <br/><br/>First edition a very early issue bound from the original parts. With thirty-five of Smith's forty-one first issue internal flaws including all of the major points first state frontispiece and all further plates mostly first state including the first four typically in second state with imprint of Chapman and Hall. <br/><br/>Octavo 8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in; 225 x 133 mm. xvi 624 pp. Forty black and white plates including frontispiece. <br/><br/>Publishers primary binding in dark olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth covers stamped in blind spine lettered in gilt. With the bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford. An unusually bright copy with just the lightest of wear and without any fading to cloth whatsoever. Some light foxing to plates but far less than usually found in this title. Two neat three-quarter inch closed splits to upper joint at head and tail and one short closed split to lower joint at head. <br/><br/>The nicest copy we have ever seen unsophisticated and near fine: better than the famed William E. Self copy which is bumped rubbed and shows distress to the spine Christie's-NY April 2 2008 lot 60. Housed in a full plum pigskin drop-front clamshell box.<br/><br/>With an ALs with original autograph envelope by Dickens to one Thomas Ellis Bramale Esq. dated August 5 1839:<br/><br/>"Sir I have very great pleasure in complying with your request and beg to thank you cordially for the obliging expressions with which it is accompanied. I am Sir Your very obedient servant Charles Dickens."<br/><br/>Nicholas Nickleby was originally published in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last part as a double number from April 1838 through October 1839. The first edition in book form was made up from these parts. "It was the novelist's intention to expose in this story the terrible abuses practiced in the cheap boarding-schools of Yorkshire and in order that he realize their true character he determined to investigate for himself the real facts as to the condition of those notorious seminaries Accordingly at the end of January 1838 he and 'Phiz' started on this memorable journey in bitterly cold weather and visiting several schools in the locality they came into direct contact with the proprietors. One of these was William Shaw the identical schoolmaster who some years previously had been heavily fined for what was represented at the trial as gross maltreatment of his pupils" Kitton Dickens and His Illustrators p. 75. It was Shaw upon whom Dickens based the infamous Squeers. Having made an enemy of his uncle Ralph Nickolas was sent as an usher to Dotheboys Hall where Wackford Squeers starved and maltreated forty students under the pretense of education. "The character of Mrs. Nickleby was largely founded upon that of Dickens's mother. The title character was founded on Dickens's brother-in-law Hanry Burnett a music teacher at Manchester" Hayward The Dickens Encyclopedia p. 115.<br/><br/>"H.K. Browne prepared 39 illustrations for this novel as well as the cover for the monthly parts while the portrait frontispiece was engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise. Because of the the large monthly circulation of the parts Browne etched as many as four plates in some cases of each illustration and all of them were printed in the initial issue of the parts. Many of the plates from 'Miss Nickleby introduced to her uncle's friends' page 175 onward contain Arabic or Roman numerals which indicate the order in which they were etched. Most of the numerals are located in the lower right corner and occasionally in the left. Hatton and Cleaver state that the numeral for Plate 31 'Mysterious appearance of the gentleman in the small-clothes' p. 487 appears on the front of the mantleshelf.The first state of the frontispiece and the first four illustrations contain the imprint of Chapman and Hall. The first state of the frontispiece always appears in the monthly parts; the first four illustrations were issued with and without the imprint in the parts but the plates without imprints did not appear in the earlier issues of the monthly parts and may therefore be termed 'second states''' Smith I 5.<br/><br/>Smith Part I 5. Eckel p.64. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 131-160. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 02749

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition in the original parts. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts as issued. First issue using the character name "Riguard" in No. XV; errata slip in XVI correcting the errors. Plates 21 and 22 in No. 11 are probably the more detailed plates mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver. All slips and ad pages present with two exceptions: Green The Train ad slip missing in Part I; no "Commercial Works for 1856" slip in II. Ads in Parts 19 & 20 differ from Hatton and Cleaver no Little Dorrit advertiser but instead front ads are "Nellie of Truro" 2 pp. Gilbert's works 4 pp. Norton's Camomile Pills 4 pp.; rear ads are blue "Stamped in Nature's Mould" 4 pp with 4 pp. orange slip for Lett's Skeleton Almanacs inside Royal Insurance Company 2 pp. and 8 pp. Virtue Hall and Virtue ads. Housed in a custom morocco and cloth case by Bayntun which is damaged on the bottom panel. Very Good overall. Almost imperceptible restoration to spines minor soiling and light wear; No. I spine is cracked though holding; name written on the front cover of two parts. Pencil correction in margin to error in No. 15 easily erasable. The very first appearance in serialized parts of Dickens' satire of the British class system. Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 140940186

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in original monthly parts first issue part XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" without errata in part XVI. In the original 19/20 monthly parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers designed by Phiz. Some minor soiling to wrappers but a nice copy. Housed in half-morocco pull-off case. Browne H.K. First edition in original monthly parts first issue part XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" without errata in part XVI. In the original 19/20 monthly parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. Little Dorrit in Parts. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307- 330 Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314942

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎In the Original Monthly Parts DICKENS Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in original monthly parts: twenty numbers bound in nineteen as issued in the original blue printed wrappers. With forty inserted plates. First state text in XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois." Original wrappers with the usual minor chipping and occasional splitting along spines. Some discreet repairs a few stains and tears to wrappers light edge-wear some light foxing to plates. Still a bright very nice copy. Front wrapper of part I with a 3-inch closed tear. Chemised and housed in a half green morocco pull-off case spine faded to brown. In the back of part XVI lacking the correction slip and the "32 Fleet St." four-page slip on green paper; otherwise all parts collates complete with all wrappers correct all"Advertisers" and all back ads. In the back ad of part XI all ads are present but bound in a different order than as stated in Hatton & Cleaver. Part XVIII complete with all text pages but they are bound in incorrect order. Part VII with tearing to lower outer corner of front ads pg 3-6 minimally affecting text. Part XIII with a corner torn on the ad slip for "Household Words" not affecting text. Hatton and Cleaver 305-333. Smith Dickens I 12. HBS 68171. $2000 Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 68171

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition. Octavo. First state in two volumes with the tipped in errata at page 467 of volume two referring to the word "Rigaud" for "Blandois" which found in the present volume eight times and with signature mark B2 for 2B2B bound from the original parts stab marks present In two volumes320 324-625pp. illustrated by H.K. Browne. Text mostly clean with some darkening or foxing to plates bound in contemporary 3/4 tan calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands with compartments decorated in gilt red and black contrasting labels gilt brown endpapers light chipping to spine ends. A very nice set. Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 021108

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625pp. early 20th century 3/4 red morocco a.e.g. by Morrell. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xivsignature B2 on p. 371 and "Rigaud" substituted for "Blandois". The plates are very clean except for the engraved half-title which has some offset from the frontispiece. Very shallow chip at the top of the spine.<br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 243109

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century half red calf and marbled boards matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good. H.K. Browne. 625 pages 22 x 15 cm. First edition in book form first issue with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp.469-474 but without the additional 9-line errata. Etched frontispiece vignette title page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz. ECKEL pp. 82-85. SMITH I:12. Bound by Smyth Liverpool: raised bands spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs green leather spine label printed in gilt Nicholas Robinson bookplate and signature on title; intermittent scattered foxing mostly marginal heavier first few and last leaves solid and tight binding. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 18981

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition first issue in book form. Very good- in elaborate full leather calf covered boards with gilt borders on the front and rear boards five raised bands on the spine with red morocco title labels with gilt text in two of the compartments with gilt tool work in the others. The end sheets are marbled with gilt inner dentelles which have offset to the edges of the first and last free end pages. The top edge of the text block is gilt. The binding is by Ramage of London as can be seen by that firm's gilt embossed line on the front paste down just above the dentelle. The front hinge and joint have failed leaving the front board attached only with thin Japanese tissue. The leather on the spine is somewhat tanned. The rear hinge and joint are tight. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and the same owner's stamped name and address on the first free end page. Both boards are a slightly bowed. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne "Phiz". An octavo measuring 8 3/16" tall by 5 1/4" deep containing 625 pages of text. This is the first Issue of the publication identified by "Rigaud" rather than "Blandois" on pages 469 470 472 and 473 and with the signature mark "B2" on page 371. Gimbel/Podeschi A141; Smith 91-93; Eckel p83 Bradbury and Evans hardcover books‎

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