London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. Cloth boards. Frontis map. First edition. A bit cocked spine dull but a good or better copy in spine-darkened soiled dust jacket with wear to the extremities. The author uncovers the details of Dickens's long affair with Ellen Ternan. Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover books
London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1964. Cloth boards. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with a few small nicks. Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover books
Berkeley: California 1951. Cloth. First edition. Very good in price- clipped soiled worn dust jacket with several inner tape mends. California hardcover books
London: Edward Moxon 1840. Two volumes. Polished tan calf spines gilt with gilt labels small repairs t.e.g. by Sotheran. Gift inscription to Emily Vine from her mother dated 1857 on title of each volume; extremities raised bands and edges rubbed; covers a little worn and soiled otherwise a good set. From the collection of William E. Self with his book label in each volume. An excellent association copy with a presentation inscription on the half-title in volume one: "J.A. Overs / From / Charles Dickens paraph / 1st November 1840." John A. Overs 1808-1844 a London cabinet-maker by training educated himself and pursued his interests in writing. Dickens became his most important literary friend providing comments on his stories and poems introducing him to newspaper editors and offering financial assistance when Overs became ill. Overs first wrote to Dickens in January 1839 hoping to have some poetry placed in Bentley's MISCELLANY and Dickens recommended several pieces to his successor as editor. "Perhaps more importantly however Dickens advised Overs on the publication of his EVENINGS OF A WORKING MAN 1844 and wrote the preface to the work. . . . In his preface Dickens is careful to emphasize Overs's autonomy stating that although he had given advice to the author on this collection of short pieces he 'never altered them otherwise than by recommending condensation now and then' and assuring the reader that the volume's sketches represented Overs's 'genuine work as they have been his sober and rational amusement'" - DNB. The two men remained close until Overs's death in 1844: "When poor Overs was dying he suddenly asked for a pen and ink and some paper and made up a little parcel for me which it was his last conscious act to direct. She Amelia Overs told me this and gave it me. I opened it last night. It was a copy of his little book in which he had written my name 'With his devotion.' I thought it simple and affecting of the poor fellow" Dickens to John Forster 17 Dec. 1844 in the LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS Pilgrim Edition 4240. Edward Moxon hardcover books
New York: Dodd Mead 1940. Gilt cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Near fine in spine-faded dust jacket with chipping to corners and spine ends and slight dampstaining to the rear panel. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
London 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
Ithaca NY: Cornell 1966. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Inscribed by the editor. Bookplate remainder stamp on top edge else very good or better in a price-clipped dust jacket with very light dampstaining to the edges of one flapfold. Cornell hardcover books
Cedar Rapids: Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus Brewer and Elinore Taylor Brewer 1930. Cloth and boards. First edition. One of 300 copies. Edges a bit tanned boards lightly soiled spine faded but a good copy. Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus Brewer and Elinore Taylor Brewer hardcover books
Leamington Spa & Birmingham: Arthur W. Waters & Holland Bros. 1921. Quarto 29 x 22.5 cm. Printed wrappers. Clean split up wrapper spine a few corner creases but a good copy. First edition. A portfolio of twelve line- engraved reproductions of Brock's pen and ink drawings laid loose into the printed wrapper as issued. GIMBEL H995. Arthur W. Waters & Holland Bros. unknown books
New York: Emerson Books 1971. Boards. Illustrations. First edition in which the author explains the erotic meaning of wooden legs and pudding. Bookplate spine gilding oxidizing else very good or better in spine-faded dust jacket with a small inner tape mend and a couple of small nicks. Emerson Books hardcover books
London: Thomas Nelson 1963. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Very good in price-clipped rubbed dust jacket with a short closed tear. Thomas Nelson hardcover books
Berkeley: Bern Porter 1947. Oblong octavo. Boards. Illustrations. First edition. Bit of darkening to endsheets light wear to spine ends else very good in lightly worn dust jacket with a few nicks. Bern Porter hardcover books
Berkeley: Bern Porter 1947. Oblong octavo. Boards. Illustrations. First edition. Bit of darkening to endsheets light wear to spine ends else very good in moderately edge-worn and creased dust jacket. Bern Porter hardcover books
London: Cecil Palmer 1920. Small octavo. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Introduction by B.W. Matz. Endsheets discolored spine faded but a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Cecil Palmer hardcover books
New York: Putnam 1920. Small octavo. Cloth t.e.g. Frontis illustrations. First U.S. edition. Introduction by B.W. Matz. Spine faded but a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Putnam hardcover books
Austin: University of Texas 1968. Gilt cloth. Frontis. New edition expanded. One of 1000 copies. Pastedowns discolored else about fine in dust jacket. University of Texas hardcover books
New York &London: Macmillan Press 1975. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Bookplate pencil inscription else near fine without dust jacket as issued. Macmillan Press hardcover books
London: Cecil Palmer 1930. Cloth. First edition. Several pages opened carelessly foxing early and late edges foxed cloth marked and soiled just a reading copy lacking a dust jacket. Cecil Palmer hardcover books
London: Printed by Wass Pritchard & Co. 1923. Pale green cloth lettered in gilt. Cloth a bit sunned and dust marked but a good copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the noted British bookseller and Dickens specialist Charles Sawyer: "Presentation copy to Charley Sawyer with best wishes from the author Cumberland Clark." Printed by Wass, Pritchard & Co. hardcover books
New York: Knopf 1936. Cloth and boards. Plates and photographs. First edition of this Centenary celebration limited to two thousand copies. Slight darkening at edges but a nice copy in dust jacket with light wear some paper backing along the top edge on the verso and moderate tanning to spine panel. Knopf hardcover books
New York: Knopf 1936. Cloth and boards. Plates and photographs. First edition of this Centenary celebration limited to two thousand copies. Slight darkening at edges but a nice copy in dust jacket with light wear and moderate tanning to spine panel. Knopf hardcover books
Cambridge: Published by the Dickens Fellowship by arrangement with the Cambridge University Press 1970. Printed wrappers. Separate printing of the Dickens entry from the third volume of NCBEL. Abbreviations key pasted to verso of front wrapper covers soiled carbon bleedthrough on upper wrapper careless bookkeeping wraps lightly used a good copy. Published by the Dickens Fellowship by arrangement with the Cambridge University Press paperback books
Published by the Dickens Fellowship by arrangement with the Cambridge University Press 1970. Printed wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Collins to a fellow Dickensian at a later date. Abbrev. sheet pasted to inner front wrapper. Very good. Published by the Dickens Fellowship by arrangement with the Cambridge University Press unknown books
London: Macmillan 1962. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Collins at a later date and also signed by him on the title-page. Ink name and date tips rubbed else near fine in edge-worn price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the spine ends and short closed tear. Macmillan hardcover books
London: Frank Kerslake 1879. Contemporary three quarter gilt calf marbled boards t.e.g. Front free endsheet loose binding rather scuffed and worn a bit of soiling at edges; a sound copy with an early bookseller's description tipped to the front endsheet. First edition of the earliest Dickens bibliography. A significant association copy probably in a presentation binding inscribed by the compiler to the novelist's son on a preliminary leaf: "To Charles Dickens Esq. with the regards of the Compiler James Cook Aug. 27 1879." Cook's BIBLIOGRAPHY "made with a set of the various Works as they were originally published in parts or in volumes" precedes that of R.H. Shepherd Manchester 1881 and several items directed at collectors such as Johnson's HINTS TO COLLECTORS 1885. Cook provides "such particulars as are necessary to give the Bibliophilist or Collector a thorough knowledge of the peculiarities of the several editions". Major minor and miscellaneous works Christmas books biographies and portraits are described with notes on reprints and inscribed copies. GIMBEL H108. Frank Kerslake hardcover books
New York: Pantheon 1968. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First U.S. edition. Bookplate spine and edges a bit faded but very good in spine-darkened lightly soiled dust jacket with chipping to the edges. Pantheon hardcover books
London: Edward Moxon 1844. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Binding rather rubbed and edgeworn otherwise a good copy with Charles Dickens' lion bookplate and the Gadshill label at the front and with the bookplate of John Gribbel at the back. Old bookseller's description tipped in front. The second edition in which Procter took the opportunity "to strike out about forty of the poems of inferior quality contained in the old volume and to introduce in their stead nearly seventy Poems in rhyme besides a considerable quantity of Dramatic verse" - "Preface to the Present Edition" dated "April 13th 1844." A presentation copy inscribed on the title-page: "Charles Dickens / with the best Regards of / The Author." In THE DICKENS CIRCLE New York 1919 p. 169 J.W.T. Ley states: "We may take it as quite certain that Dickens came to know Procter through Forster. And from the first the novelist and the poet were on the best of terms. It was natural. Procter was a peculiarly lovable man with a peculiar gentleness 'childlike without being childish and an unfailing buoyancy of spirit.' Such a man could not but have a strong attraction for Dickens. From the beginning he loved the company of his friend who in the 'forties was one of the innermost circle with Forster and Maclise and Ainsworth. Procter was one of the little company at the Greenwich dinner in 1842 and until he grew too old he was twenty-five years older than Dickens they had frequent social meetings. For HOUSEHOLD WORDS and ALL THE YEAR ROUND he wrote a great deal and Dickens valued his contributions very highly indeed . . . As Procter grew old Dickens saw less and less of him but the friendship remained as deep as ever and in 1854 it was peculiarly sweetened by the discovery that the 'Miss Mary Berwick' who had contributed verses to HOUSEHOLD WORDS which had won Dickens's unstinted praise was really his old friend's daughter Adelaide whom he had known from her childhood." Edward Moxon hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1916. Gilt cloth. Frontis portrait. Second revised edition. Ink ownership inscription erasure from pastedown spine a bit darkened head of spine frayed tips rubbed but a good or better copy. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1915. Gilt cloth. Frontis. First edition. Front inner hinge starting rear inner hinge cracked but sound top edge dusty cloth a bit tanned but a good copy. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: Sir Isaac Pitman 1949. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Touch of foxing to edges spine dull spine ends bumped but a good or better copy in an edge-worn dust jacket. Sir Isaac Pitman hardcover books
London: Pitman 1949. Gilt cloth. Profusely illustrated with photogravures and Isotype charts. First edition. Small crack in front hinge small dampstain to top edge head of spine bumped two corners bumped edges faintly foxed but a good or better copy in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Pitman hardcover books
London: The Argonaut Press 1933. Boards paper spine label. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Leaf 15-16 is a cancel. Offsetting to endsheets upper corners bumped else very good or better in spine-tanned dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and a price sticker at the toe of the spine. The Argonaut Press hardcover books
London: Wells Gardner Darton 1926. Contemporary three-quarter calf and cloth t.e.g. First edition. One of 400 copies. Hand- colored frontis illustrations. Binding a bit rubbed but a very good copy. Wells Gardner, Darton hardcover books
Columbia: Missouri 1963. Cloth. Frontis. First edition. Top edge slightly dusty else near fine in rubbed dust jacket with a few nicks and short tears and one old inner tape repair. Missouri hardcover books
London: The Dickens Fellowship 1937. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. First edition. One corner bumped wraps a bit darkened at spine and edges new price sticker on front wrapper but about very good. The Dickens Fellowship paperback books
Philadelphia: 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
Philadelphia: 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
London: Cecil Palmer 1930. Small octavo. Textured pictorial leatherette. Photographs. Third and first "pocket" edition. Bit of use to extremities but about very good. Cecil Palmer hardcover books
London: Cedric Dickens 1980. Boards. Frontis illustrations. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Second edition but first trade edition after the limited edition. Inscribed and signed by Cedric Dickens "at the Dickens Inn London." Sticker from the Dickens Inn pasted to front pastedown. How to get authentically soused with many original recipes for drinks from Dickens's day. Cedric Dickens hardcover books
Goring-on-Thames & New York: Elvendon Press / Hippocrene Books 1983. Gilt cloth boards. Frontis and illustrations. Reprint. Bookplate else very good in used and rubbed dust jacket. Elvendon Press / Hippocrene Books hardcover books
London: 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
New York: Dodd Mead 1968. Cloth. Illustrated. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled price-clipped dust jacket with a small closed tear to the head of the spine. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
London & New York: Macmillan & St. Martin's Press 1970. Cloth boards. First edition. About fine in price-clipped lightly rubbed dust jacket. Macmillan & St. Martin's Press hardcover books
London: Jarrolds 1963. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Bookplate else near fine in price-clipped lightly soiled dust jacket. Jarrolds hardcover books
Cambridge: Harvard 1959. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty else near fine in price-clipped lightly soiled dust jacket with several closed tears. Harvard hardcover books
Cambridge: Harvard 1959. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dust spotted else very good in lightly soiled dust jacket with a long closed tear in front panel. Harvard hardcover books
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