Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop Inc n. d. 1st printing. Colored papered wrappers with black title lettering printed to front cover. VG. 2 62 pp. A few photographic images. 9" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Heritage Book Shop Inc unknown books
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop Inc n. d. 1st printing. Colored papered wrappers with black title lettering printed to front cover. VG. 2 62 pp. A few photographic images. 9" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Heritage Book Shop Inc unknown books
Chicago: James M. W. Borg 1978. 1st printing. Green paper wrappers with black printed title lettering to front cover. Sunning to spine otherwise a VG copy. Unpaginated. Several black and white images. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> James M. W. Borg unknown books
London: Chapman & Hall 1848. 1st edition thus NCBEL III 798; VanderPoel B206. Pale green printed wrappers. VG green wrapper split at spine fold/lt soil & wear/plates have some of the usual foxing & browning. 4 plates. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" <br/><br/>Not in Gimbel though see H1002 & H1003 which is a similar such set for OCS & BR. Chapman & Hall unknown books
London: James Nisbet & Co 1913. 1st Trade Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt and embossed face of Dickens face stamped to front board. Gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. TEG. Sunning to spine and biopredation to spine and front board soiled foxing through out book PO stamp to inner front board. Withal an About Good copy. xiv 320 pp including index. 39 plates. 10" x 7" <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co hardcover books
London: James Nisbet & Co 1913. 1st Trade Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt and embossed face of Dickens face stamped to front board. Gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. TEG. Dust jacket. Very Good/Fair stained lacking lower half of spine panel/mylar cover taped to book. xiv 320 pp including index. 39 plates. 10" x 7" <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co hardcover books
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1932. 1st edition. Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Dust jacket. VG top edge dusty/offset to eps/Abt VG some edgewear/chipping @ hd & tail of spine. xii 204 8 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/>"Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships endowments and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found with Charles Dickens a home for young women who had 'turned to a life of immorality' including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage." Wiki. The volume contains many hitherto unpublished letters to Burdett-Coutts which gives one a good flavor of Dickens rather sympathetic nature for those less fortunate. Uncommon in jacket. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1919. Early if not a first printing. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Buff printed dust jacket with image of Gad's Hill Place to front panel. A VG copy in an About VG dust jacket. 8 308 pp including Index. Frontis of Dickens. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>Uncommon in jacket. Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1919. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Spine dull. POS to ffep. Newspaper offset to half-title page. Some foxing. Very Good. 8 308 4 blank pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. 8vo. <br/><br/> Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1871. 1st printing of the Facsimile edition See Eckel p 154. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning to paper. Wear to spine paper with loss. 3/4" vertical tear to front wrapper lower edge. An About VG copy. 46 2 blank pp. Unopened. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>One of the scarcest Dickens' titles in the original printing. Chapman & Hall unknown books
n. p.: Privately Printed 1928. 1st edition thus NCBEL III 815. Limitd to 250cc this #98. Buff parchment paper spine & tips with grey paper-wrapped boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Spine darkened. Prior owner signature to front paste-down. A VG copy. 58 pp. Illustrated with facsimiles drawings etc. 8-5/8" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>One of Dickens' scarcest titles in the original printing here reproduced with related drawings facsimile letters e.g. Dickens to Chapman & Hall facsimile Playbill etc. Privately Printed hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1871. 1st printing of the Facsimile edition See Eckel p 154. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG. Plain paper printed wrappers bound-in. Spine sunned to a mellow golden tan. Minor extremity wear. Withal a handsome VG copy. 4 46 pp. Binder's blanks. Hand-colored frontispiece by Pailthorpe. Extra-illustrated with Engraving of Dickens by Buttre and an image of J. P. Harley as he was dressed for his 1836 performance. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: W. H. Allen & Co 1889. 1st edition. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG extremity wear/slt lean. 284 pp. Small 8vo. <br/><br/>Chapter 13 relates Dickens' influence. W. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1914. 1st edition NCBEL III 808. Original blue printed paper covers. Wrappers with edge wear & age-darkening with paper spine repair as well as to the cover's lower corners. An About VG copy. 79 1 blank pp. Reproduction of Part-issue wrapper graphics p. 5. Royal 8vo. 9-7/8" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/>A mock trial heard in King's Hall Covent Garden on Wednesday 7 January 1914 with G. K. Chesterton presiding & George Bernard Shaw as the Jury Foreman. Uncommon on the market. Chapman & Hall unknown books
London: Wass Pritchard & Co 1923. 1st edition NCBEL III 827. Stiff buff printed wrappers. VG minor soiling to wrappers. 32 pp 8vo. <br/><br/>The many ways to say "NO" to requests for a 'small sum to see one through.'. Somewhat uncommon item. Wass Pritchard & Co unknown books
London: Cecil Palmer 1930. 1st trade edition NCBEL III 840. Red cloth binding. Red dust jacket. VG/VG light wear/spine panel a bit sun-tanned. Uncommon in jacket. vi 2 216 pp. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>With the Publication of Charles Dickens' Original MSS on "The Condition of the Working Classes" together with his Original Letter to Dr Southwood Smith on "The Condition of the Poor". Cecil Palmer hardcover books
London: Wass Pritchard & Co 1923. 1st edition NCBEL III 849. INSCRIBED by the author in the 3rd person on the ffep dated 1926. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Spine sunned. Very Good. 2 blank 103 1 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Somewhat uncommon item. Wass Pritchard & Co hardcover books
London: Privately Printed by the Chiswick Press 1926. 1st edition cf. NCBEL III 840. Red pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board. Spine sunned a bit. A VG - VG copy. 112 pp. Unopened. 8vo. 9" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/>Somewhat uncommon item; NCBEL notes this title with a 1930 date. Not in Gimbel nor VanderPoel. Privately Printed by the Chiswick Press hardcover books
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by the author to 'Osgood' on the ffep. Orange cloth spine with grey paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF/VG sp panel slightly darkened/lt edgewear. x 156 pp. 25 illustrations; 2 maps. 8vo. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
Rochester NY: Sherwin Cody School of English n. d. Flexible brown paper wrappers with embossed lettering; yapp edges. VG. 157 pp. 5-3/8" x 3-3/4" <br/><br/>Selections from Dickens' works. Sherwin Cody School of English unknown books
San Francisco 1887. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Vertical fold line. Very Good. A fill-in-the-blanks job-printed receipt for this California publisher detailing layaway terms. Verso with blanks to record customer's payment record. 3-7/8" x 10" <br/><br/>One Francis Cutting has deposited One Dollar as of February 19 1887 towards purchase of "1 Set Dickens" at a list price of $10.00. The set was paid in full March 21st of that year. As background to this transaction we find that in the 1870s Collier started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy publisher of books for the Roman Catholic market. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a subscription plan it led to a disagreement with Kenedy so Collier left to start his own subscription service. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875 expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during the 1900–1910 decade." Wiki So here offered a surviving 1880s receipt of Collier's very successful subscription business. unknown books
London: Ben Johnson & Co 1923. 1st editon. Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Spine sunned. General wear. Offset to eps. Very Good. 145 1 advert pp. illustrated with drawings by E. Ridsdale Tate. 12mo. <br/><br/> Ben Johnson & Co hardcover books
New York: The Grolier Club 1913. 1st edition. Large paper version; limited to 300cc. Paper wrapped boards with gilt stamped lettering. Lacks publisher's box. Spine sun-tanned. Some extremity wear. A VG copy. xxvi 230 pp. Untrimmed. Illustrated including a color frontis. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Grolier Club hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1919. 1st edition NCBEL III 840. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. VG sp faded/some wear. 254 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Crotch examines the reaction of Dickens to the influence of English literature. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: John Long 1904. 1st edition Miller p. 231. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Average wear. A VG copy. 143 1 pp. Printer's device to t.p. 12mo. <br/><br/>A compilation of daily quotations from Dickens' first novel Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. John Long hardcover books
New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. 1st edition NCBEL III 840. Blue printed cloth boards. Dust jacket. VG slight lean/Abt VG edgewear & chipping. 208 pp. Illustrations from the original adverts. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
London: 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
Philadelphia: 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
London: 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
London: Cecil Palmer 1923. 1st edition. Olive green vertically-ribbed cloth with black stamped lettering. Some general wear. Bit of foxing to top & fore-edge. Overall Very Good. 269 3 pp including Index. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> Cecil Palmer hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1913. 1st edition. Signed/Limited. #91/250. Vellum spine & cloth boards. TEG. VG bpt. 296 pp including index. Frontis portrait of Dickens; 36 illustrations & facsimiles. 4to. <br/><br/>Signed by Eckel & Arthur Waugh the then managing director of Chapman & Hall. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1913. 1st edition. No. 437 of an edition limited to 750. Brown cloth binding gilt stamped spine lettering TEG. Light general wear and toning; spine sun-darkened; faint spotting to boards; pencil marginalia to one pg; slight crack to front hinge. Occasional minor foxing throughout. Interior otherwise clean binding still secure. VG condition. xviii 296 pp including Index. Frontis portrait of Dickens; 36 illustrations & facsimiles including a four-panel fold-out showing the title page variations of the first edition of The Battle of Life. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
London: W. H. Allen 1952. 1st edition. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG faint offset to eps/bookseller ticket to front paste-down/ding to rear board/VG average wear & soiling/spine panel a bit dull. xiii 1 278 pp including Index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> W. H. Allen hardcover books
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1871. Early printing cf. Gimbel D63. Original publisher's green decorative cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering and elaborate spine design. VG gilt bright/1" hairling crack to front hinge paper/light foxing. Ex-Lib with quaint 19th C. lending library "Wayward Library" bookplate & due date slip to rear eps. 335 1 blank pp including Index. Title page vignette. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>A collection of Dickens' scenes selected as "containing enough interest in itself to render it acceptable as a part of a school exhibition." Preface p. 3. Lee and Shepard, Publishers hardcover books
London: Hamlyn 1973. 2nd Printing. Green cloth binding. Facsimile mss eps. White glossy paper dust jacket printed in color. VG/VG. 140 pp including Index. Profusely illustrated with color & b/w images. 4to. <br/><br/>Lovely pictorial account of Boz and his times. Hamlyn hardcover books
London: Trübner & Co 1871. 1st UK edition. The Edward Daost copy. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering & front board blocked in black. Overall VG professionally rebacked/spine cloth a bit dull/period pos to preliminary front blank. 152 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Bookplate of Clara B. and Edward C. Daoust to first pastedown. Trübner & Co hardcover books
London: Longsman Green & Co 1966. Reprinting of the revised edition of 1963 with additions to the Bibliography. Yellow-green wrappers stapled. Front wrapper printed price canceled with new price pasted over. VG minor wear/unobtrusive stain to rear wrapper. 52 pp. Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. <br/><br/> Longsman Green & Co unknown books
London: New Century Press 1899. 1st edition NCBEL III 790. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Green patterned-paper eps. VG average wear/spine sunned. 114 pp adverts. Sq 8vo. <br/><br/> New Century Press hardcover books
London: New Century Press 1899. 1st ed NCBEL III 790. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Green patterned eps. VG sp sunned/sm ink out of old price on ffep. 114 pp adverts. Sq 8vo. <br/><br/> New Century Press hardcover books
London: New Century Press 1899. 1st ed NCBEL III 790. Deep maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Plain laid-paper eps. VG two sm bumps to fore edge of front board. 114 pp adverts. Sq 8vo. <br/><br/> New Century Press hardcover books
London: Chatto & Windus 1882. 1st edition NCBEL III 1053. Olive green linen cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG sq & tight/spines darkened somewhat. 2 volumes. 8vo. <br/><br/>2 chapters in Volume I are of Dickens: 'Charles Dickens As An Editor' & 'Charles Dickens At Home'. There are 4 concluding chapters of interest to bibliophiles: 'Modern Printing' Old Booksellers and Their Hobbies' 'Old Catalogues' & 'Bookstalls and Book-Boxes'. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1874. 1st edition. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco bindings by Root & Sons with green cloth boards. Gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands. TEG. Grey marbled paper eps. Minor extremity wear. Bookplate "The Haldersons" in each volume. Occasional spot of foxing. All-in-all an attractive Nr Fine set. 3 volumes. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
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