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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Pearl-Fishing. Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words. First Series‎

‎Hard Cover. Auburn: Alden Beardsley & Co.; Rochester: Wanzer Beardsley & Co. 1854. First edition first series octavo 351 pages 1 page of ads at rear. Original slate-blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind; frontis portrait. A collection of 10 tales from the American edition of Household Words which were actually not by Dickens but were edited by him to the extent that according to Eckel "they were almost his in a literary sense." Light marginal foxing to frontis; internally clean; a near fine copy with a trace of wear at extremities; bookplate. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 6612

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Personal History of David Copperfield‎

‎David Copperfield in the Original Parts with the Rare ìLettsî Ad DICKENS Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1850 i.e. May 1849-November 1850. First edition in the original monthly parts twenty numbers bound in nineteen. Octavo. i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. Forty inserted plates including frontispiece and vignette title. Collates nearly complete with almost all ads and slips as called for by Hatton and Cleaver with the rare fold-out ìLettsî ad in part VIII lacks slip after plates in part IX rear slip in part XII rear slip in part XIII front slip in part XVI lacks last page of last ads in part XIX-XX. This copy has seven specimen diary leaves in part VIII variant ads in parts XII 2A and XVIII Waterlow alternate on yellow paper. As in the Martin set the ìAdvertiserî Part VIII correctly reads ìLife of Goldsmithî instead of ìLile.î Original blue printed wrappers. All parts expertly rebacked. A few tiny frayed spots on corners. Some scattered foxing to text and plates. A small stain on front wrapper of Part III. Part VII opened a bit wide after plates but holding firm. Part X pages 5-6 of back advertisement torn with loss of half the page. Part XII pages 3-6 of back advertisement torn with loss of text from the ad. Part XV with text pages 471-474 bound in backwards but present. Part XVI with a tear to page 7 of the slip following the plates affecting text of the ad. Plates a bit tones mainly to the four in Part XIX-XX. Overall an attractive set. Housed in a quarter blue morocco slip case. Copperfield is one of the rarer titles in parts. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 253-272. HBS 68265. $9500 Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 68265

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Pic Nic Papers‎

‎For the Benefit of John Macroneís Widow DICKENS Charles. The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens Esq. Author of ëThe Pickwick Papersî ìNicholas Nicklebyî &c. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank Phiz &c. London: Henry Colburn Publisher 1841. First edition second state with Palmer imprint on ii and ìyoung publisherî corrected on iii in Volume I. Three twelvemo volumes. i-iiiivvvivii-viii 12-323324; i-iv 12-298 i-viii ads; i-iv 1-34-378 i-iv ads. Fourteen engraved plates including two by Cruikshank six by Phiz and six by R.J. Hammerton. Original green fine-diaper cloth stamped in blind on covers and spine and lettered in gilt on spine. Original pale yellow endpapers. Spines sunned corners bumped. Previous owner's ink inscription on front-free endpapers of Vol. II. and III. Occasional slight offsetting and periodic edge-browning or foxing to plates. Overall a very good copy. ìJohn Macrone was the publisher of Dickensí first book and when he died he left a widow and several children in comparatively destitute circumstances. As a business man he drove what to the young author at that time was a rather hard bargain over a copyright. But the appeal made on behalf of a needy family Dickens could not resist. He was in the middle of ëMaster Humphreyís Clockí and regardless of this he undertook the management of ëThe Picnic Papersí the proceeds of which were to alleviate hardships. He wrote the Introduction rewrote his unacted farce ëThe Lamplighterí altering the name to ëThe Lamplighterís Storyí edited the balance of the book excepting the third volume and was enabled to place in the hands of the widow the sum of £300î Eckel. Gimbel B109. Cohn 236. Eckel. HBS 66172. $650 Henry Colburn, Publisher hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 66172

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎PICKWICK PAPERS - Excerpt. Mr Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets with a Romantic Adventure with a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow Curl Papers‎

‎Philadelphia: Priv. Ptd - Samuel Dalton 1965. 1st thus 128/1300. Green Decorative cloth w/ slipcase. A Fine copy in a VG soiled slipcase. 44 pp. Color Drawings by Rey Abruzzi 8vo. <br/><br/>Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and meets with a Romantic Adventure with a middle aged Lady in Yellow Cut Papers. Priv. Ptd - Samuel Dalton hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2135.1

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Pickwick-klubbens Efterlämnade Papper‎

‎Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag 1950. Med originalupplagans illustratiaoner av Robert Seymour och Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". 323 1p. b/w illus. t.e.g. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Albert Bonniers Förlag unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 020604

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Pictures From Italy‎

‎Ecco Press 1988. Very Good. Dickens Charles. Pictures From Italy. New York: Ecco Press 1988. 176 . 3 leaves of latespp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. Ecco Press paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : UDICPIC00FP ISBN : 0880011645 9780880011648

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Pictures from Italy‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First Edition. 12mo. First issue according to Smith. 2691pp. four wood block vignette illustrations by Marcus Stone. The story of Dickens' travels through Italy by carriage. Bound in 3/4 green polished calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red morocco spine label gilt light brown endpapers. Internally clean and bright no names or bookplates a few scuffs to leather wanting ads. A very good copy. Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 022119

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎PICTURES FROM ITALY‎

‎1846. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men. His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line CGEL This copy is in the primary fine-diaper cloth binding; copies were also issued in ribbed cloth of the same color. This is a very good copy with little wear but with some soil on the covers; the endpapers are old but not original. The front flyleaf bears the penciled signature of Walter Smith bibliographer of Dickens. Smith II pp 44-58. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 10703

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎PICTURES FROM ITALY‎

‎1846. With Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans 1846. 2 pp undated preliminary ads plus 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men. His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line. CGEL Smith cites bindings both of fine-diaper cloth and of horizontally-ribbed cloth no priority -- see his Note 3; there are also copies in vertically-ribbed cloth. This copy is in horizontally-ribbed cloth and is in near-fine condition volume slightly aslant front endpaper slightly cracked one small front-cover spot. PICTURES FROM ITALY used to be rather common but attractive copies such as this are becoming increasingly scarce. Smith II pp 44-58. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 11810

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Pictures From Italy‎

‎London Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars 1846. 1846. First edition. 8vo. Woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. Half title. Original blind stamped blue cloth with gilt lettered spine; pale yellow endpapers. Two pages of advertisements at front and two pages of advertisements at end. An unusually fresh bright copy no foxing. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 300157

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎PLATED ARTICLE‎

‎STOKE-UPON-TRENT COPELAND CA 1925. DICKENS STORY ORIGINATED IN 1852 VERY GOOD-FINE. STOKE-UPON-TRENT, COPELAND, CA 1925 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 1990

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club‎

‎With Forty-Three Engraved Plates DICKENS Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition in book form of one of Dickensí greatest works mixed issue. Thick octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/16 inches. xiv 1 directions 1 errata 609 1 blank pp. With forty-three illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title-page. With the seven plates by Seymour and the remaining ones by Phiz. Originally issued in 20 parts from April 1836 to November 1837. With half-title "Directions to Binder" and errata leaf. Includes marginal note on page 9 that was suppressed in later issues. Modern full brown morocco by Bayntum-Riviere gilt-stamped with a portrait of Dickens on front cover. Spine stamped in gilt with five raised bands. All edges gilt gilt-turn-ins. Housed in a brown cloth open end slipcase. A fine copy with clean plates. "From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been. firmly established. It was written by Dickens when he was twenty-four and its publication placed the author on a solid foundation from which he never was removed. It is quite probable that only Shakespeareís Works the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book exceed "Pickwick Papers" in circulation" Eckel 17. "Never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!" Allibone I:500. Pickwick would be the first volume in which Dickens was acknowledged as the author rather than using his pen name "Boz." Gimbel A15. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith I:3 Dickens. HBS 67068. $1350 Chapman & Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 67068

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB‎

‎1837. Phiz. DICKENS Charles. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form extra illustrated and finely bound. Octavo. iii-xvi 609 pp.; lacks half-title. This special copy has a duplicate hand-colored set of the original plates by Robert Seymour and "Phiz" Hablot K. Browne 2 hand-colored plates by Robert William Buss a small set of 7 hand-colored plates by Phiz a hand-colored plate of Sam Vale the original of Sam Weller by George Cruikshank a hand-colored plate of Sam Weller by F. W. Palthorpe a hand-colored portrait of Serjeant Talfourd and portraits of Dickens Robert Seymour and Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" and "Nemo". The uncolored plates by Phiz are earlier than the colored ones; they are not titled but each is signed when called for and contains a page location number except the last sixteen which Hatton and Cleaver p. 63 claim are the earliest state of the original and duplicate plates for these illustrations and of course the frontispiece and vignette title-page. The frontispiece and vignette title-page are both "second plate" from the second version of the printing plate. There is a total of 101 plates of which 55 are colored. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in full green crushed morocco with a black leather inlaid border gilt facsimile of the author's signature on upper board inner leather dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. An old bookseller's description is tipped-in at the first fly-leaf. Fine. Smith v. I 3. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 88069

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎REPRINTED PIECES AND THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES.WITH ILLUSTRATIONS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER‎

‎New York & London: Macmillan & Co. 1896. Gilt green cloth. Frontis. First American impression of this edition with the introduction published in format with the Macmillan "Uniform Edition." Wilkie Collins's coauthorship of the last title piece has been neatly noted in ink on the sectional title otherwise a fine bright copy. GIMBEL D131n. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT19175

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Scrapbook Containing The Life of Our Lord‎

‎DICKENS Charles. DOR… Gustave illustrator. Scrapbook Containing The Life of Our Lord. A children's version of the Gospel written for his children by Charles Dickens.As It Apperas First Time in Print in The Courier Journal. Louisville KY: The Courier-Journal 1934. First edition. Quarto. Original brown printed paper wrappers containing the eleven daily parts. Some yellowing to papers else fine. Smith II. p.94-95. HBS 66213. $200 The Courier-Journal unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66213

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Sketches by Boz‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1839 New edition. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Finely bound in contemporary three-quarter dark green calf marbled boards and page edges spine titled and elaborately stamped in gilt. Very good with wear and rubbing to spine ends edges and boards frontispiece with repaired tear some foxing to frontis and plates. Overall a very attractive bright and very clean copy. This collection of fiction first published as a series of short pieces in The Monthly Magazine and other periodicals was re-issued in book form in 1836 and stands as Dickens's first foray into authorship. The pieces were penned under Dickens's pseudonym "Boz" and offer insight into his observations of the streets of Victorian London and its inhabitants. The humorous and unforgiving social critique includes chapters such as "Thoughts about People" a grim take on the life of a working man in London as one that "cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies for no one remembered him when he was alive" and "The Broker's Man" a long lament by a character called Mr. Bung on the trials he faces working for a broker. The original two-volume set and its later-published third volume were illustrated by notable political cartoonist and illustrator of the time George Cruikshank who worked closely with Dickens to portray each character and scene exactly as he envisioned them. Sketches marked the beginning of many of Dickens's professional relationships which ultimately led to his rise to the prominence he holds today. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Cruikshank George. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : CD095

‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎Sketches by Boz‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1874. 8vo pp. xiv 577; engraved frontispiece and half-title and 38 engraved plates all by George Cruikshank; a wacky home-made binding of full brown morocco rear cover with blindstamped geometrical pattern front cover with similar geometric design but with alligator interwoven into the borders and the central design and with 7 alligator onlays; overlapping spine hand-lettered and now largely faded; hinges crudely but effectively strengthened with ruled paper prelims bound out of order the text and plate quite clean. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 26176

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎SKETCHES BY BOZ ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE . NEW EDITION COMPLETE‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1863. viii526pp. Large octavo. Medium green cloth lettered in gilt stamped in blind. Pictorial title and plates. Ink name on free endsheet slight rubbing to cloth a very good copy. Chapman & Hall issued their first one volume edition in May of 1839 including the forty engravings by Cruikshank. This printing is in a binding sharing the style of the secondary bindings Chapman & Hall placed on the sheets of the titles taken over from Bradbury & Evans. Chapman & Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT82016

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎SKETCHES BY BOZ Near Fine Example of the First "Cheap" Edition in Original Cloth‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Dickens Charles. SKETCHES BY BOZ. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Original blind-stamped green publisher's cloth with spines elaborately decorated in gilt. First "Cheap" Edition actually volume 8 of the first and most important collected works of Dickens with a new 1pp introduction by Dickens and a specially commissioned new frontispiece. Begun in 1847 with writings already published Dickens added further titles to his "works" as he went along. Despite being called "cheap" -- these volumes are just as high quality in texture and ornamentation as his first editions; there are 18 titles in total we've never seen a complete set in fine original condition and individual volumes in collector's condition are scarce. NEAR FINE spine a trifle browned as almost always with this olive-green cloth slightly foxed minor wear to the extremities bright gilt and excellent eye appeal. It would hard to find a better example of this traditionally yet inexplicably undervalued volume from Dickens's carefully-designed newly prefaced and illustrated first collection of his works. First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 001761

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎SKETCHES BY BOZ; illustrative of Every-Day and Every-Day People with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard‎

‎London: 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

Bookseller reference : 58216

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN‎

‎1838. 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

Bookseller reference : 14382

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎SPEECH delivered at the Meeting of the ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION‎

‎1855. 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

Bookseller reference : 12168

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Stories from Household Words‎

‎DICKENS Charles. Stories from Household Words. I. The Miner's Daughters. II. Loaded Dice. New York: Stringer & Townsend 1850. First American edition in wrappers. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Some expected shelfwear and chipping to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Overall a very good copy of this fragile item. The Miner's Daughters is by William Howitt. Gimbel p. 372 HBS 66203. $200 Stringer & Townsend unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66203

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Studio Presskit for: GREAT EXPECTATIONS‎

‎Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century-Fox 1998. xiv19pp. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Accompanied by eight 8x10 publicity stills laid into a folding pictorial wrapper. A few soft creases to outer wrapper else about fine. Original presskit for this 1998 release directed by Alfonse Cuarzon based on a screenplay by Mitch Glazer loosely adapted from Dickens's novel starring Robert De Niro. Gwyneth Paltrow Ethan Hawke Anne Bancroft et at. Each still prints two images and include they character scene and production shots. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT40969

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎SUNSHINE ON DAILY PATHS; or the Revelation of Beauty and Wonder in Common Things. From Household Words. With Eight Original Illustrations‎

‎Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1854. 1st thus VanderPoel B571. Not in Gimbel nor the 1960 BL Catalogue Extract. Original green blindstamped cloth. VG tight/blinstamping sharp/sp sltly dull/some minor foxing. 452 pp. Frontis engraved title page & 6 inserted plates by Stephens & Beeler. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 4953.2