‎Dickens charles‎

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal: Volume IV‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1861. First. hardcover. very good. Tall 8vo original green cloth decoratively blind-stamped with spine lettering in gilt. London: Chapman & Hall 1861. Firt Edition.<br/><br/> Contains the first 28 chapters of "Great Expectations".<br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 297743

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎American Notes‎

‎Avon CT: The Limited Editions Club 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 2000. 8vo. Signed by illustrator Raymond Houlihan. Excellent copy in slipcase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎American Notes and Pictures from Italy‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall nd. 18 illus by A. B. Frost and Gordoin Thomson. 210pp. 4to. Modern three qaurter brown calf and marbled boards leather title label. Fine. 18 illus by A. B. Frost and Gordoin Thomson. 210pp. 4to. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 317285

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎American Notes and The Uncommerical Traveler‎

‎Philadelphia Pennsylvania: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1800. People's / Peterson's Uniform Duodecimo Edition. Hardcover. G Ex-lib. bookplate inside front cover pocket inside back usual markings. Cloth lightly worn particularly at extremities. Foxing is present mostly just at page edges but occasionally elsewhere too. Still very clean and readable. Brown cloth over boards with gilt titling and illustration at spine. 472 pp. T. B. Peterson & Brothers hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation‎

‎1842. New-York: Harper & Brothers 1842. 4 pp ads dated Nov 2 1842. Original brown printed wrappers. Third American Edition just one day after the first! of this book that resulted from Dickens's 1842 tour of America. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and soon to be confirmed in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography this edition was published on November 8th 1842 the day after Winchester's "New World" edition and Wilson's "Brother Jonathan" edition -- but the day before Lea & Blanchard's fourth American edition. Dickens was so upset by the lack of an international copyright law he forewent any negotiations with American publishers -- which is why none of these publishers had advance sheets and all simply had to wait in the harbor for the first boat to arrive with copies of the UK edition published October 19th and then rush to press. This Harper edition bears the date November 2nd on the ads and on the inside rear wrapper but as the above bibliographers have researched such a date is not necessarily the publication date when the book is actually available to the public. A curiosity of this edition is that although prices on the rear and inside covers are in cents the front cover twice states "price one shilling." This is a very good-plus copy with minor wear at the extremities rear wrapper a bit darkened minor foxing throughout as usual. Podeschi Yale A67; Carr UTexas B479; Wilkins p. 24. unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 14158

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎American Notes for General Circulation‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1842. First Edition. First state with verso of contents leaf incorrectly numbered "xvi" instead of "x". Two octavo volumes 20cm; bound in recent half green calf and marbled boards spines in six compartments with raised bands titling and decorations stamped in gilt; top edges gilt; x 2 308; viii 306pp; lacking ad leaf. Text edges slightly tanned; faint moisture staining to upper right corners of Vol.2; clean otherwise and free of foxing - about Fine. American Notes is largely based on Dickens's letters to John Forster Daniel Maclise Beard Mitton and Fontblanque. He sailed from Liverpool on 3 January 1842 and visited numerous cities in the United States and Canada including Boston New York Philadelphia Richmond St. Louis Montreal and Quebec before leaving for England from New York City on June 7. It was an exhausting trip and Dickens was especially tired of the often virulent reactions to his support of international copyright laws. His dissolution is apparent his criticisms of slavery the American press and the sanitary conditions of American cities. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 21839

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION‎

‎Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1975. Quarter calf and pictorial boards leather spine label. Frontis and illustrations by Raymond F. Houlihan. Introduction by Angus Wilson. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by Houlihan. Bookplate on pastedown otherwise fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. Limited Editions Club hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation. "The New World.‎

‎1842. with the RARE outer wrapper First American Edition. New-York: J. Winchester Publisher November 1842. Original self-wrappers with additional outer wrapper. "First American Edition" -- second impression. As confirmed first in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and again in Walter Smith's recent bibliography this edition 12-1/2 cents was published at 2:00 PM on Monday November 7 1842 -- just TWO HOURS before the "Brother Jonathan Extra" edition 12-1/2 cents managed to get out on the streets. Harper got its edition 12-1/2 cents out by early or mid-afternoon on the following day Tuesday the 8th and Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia had an edition first 25 cents then 12-1/2 on the streets by Wednesday the 9th. L&B was the only one of these American publishers to have had a prior agreement with Dickens for publication in America -- but Dickens was so upset by the lack of an international copyright law he forewent any such negotiations -- which is why none of these publishers had advance sheets and all simply had to wait in the harbor for the first boat to arrive with the UK edition published in October and then rush to press. The Winchester publication occupies 46 pages of double-column text followed by one leaf of ads. The first impression was originally issued without an outer wrapper. This copy is from Winchester's second impression not so stated -- which first came out around November 19th a few minor differences include having "Number 3233" printed correctly in the heading and having "THE END" centered on page 46. Some later copies of this impression came with a decorative wrapper -- and this is such a copy. The wrapper's front cover reads "FIVE POINTS LITERATURE "BOZ" RAISING THE "DICKENS" WITH AMERICA OR HOW TO USE UP THE YANKEES. A NOVEL IN ONE VOLUME. PRICE 12 1/2 CENTS." A new title! A new sub-title! And it is now a novel! As Walter Smith observes in his upcoming bibliography the rear cover lists several British novels currently in serialization which are/will be issued in "New World" supplements as available: one of these is MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT which began its "New World" serialization in January 1843 -- so this wrapper was added sometime on or after that date. As Smith also points out there may be other states of this wrapper but this the Smith copy is the only documented example so we don't know. Condition is very good -- with substantial edge-wear mainly around the spine. A remarkable survival. Bracher Bibliographical Society of America Vol 69 pp 365-376; curiously not in Podeschi Yale; Carr UTexas B4772; Wilkins pp 23-24. unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 14156

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION; And pictures from Italy‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1913. Marcus Stone. 8vo pp. 365. Illustrated by Marcus Stone all present. Maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine. Cover slightly scuffed and faded o/w a nice copy. American Notes was first published in 1842; Pictures from Italy in 1846. They are published together here as part of the "Universal edition of the works of Charles Dickens in 22 volumes. Chapman & Hall unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 31792

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES Near Fine Example of the First "Cheap" Edition in Original Cloth‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Dickens Charles. AMERICAN NOTES. Frontispiece by C. Stanfield. London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Original blind-stamped green publisher's cloth with spines elaborately decorated in gilt. First "Cheap" Edition actually volume 7 of the first and most important collected works of Dickens with a new 2pp introduction 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 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 C. Stanfield. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES; 1842‎

‎Westvaco 1970. Limited edition. Bartlett William Henry. Horizontal 8vo pp. 274. Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett. Black cloth blind-stamped; lettered in silver on spine. Some slight foxing on edges and a few leaves o/w a nice copy in llittle bumped and somewhat browned and spotted dlipcase. Westvaco unknown books‎

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‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED‎

‎1 Devonshire Terrace London 1851. Hand-written letter measuring 4 1/2" x 7". Two horizontal folds to accommodate envelope for mailing. " 1 Devonshire Terrace Eighteenth January 1857. Dear Sir I have been visiting in the country or I should have answered your note sooner. I assure you that I feel under many obligations now and have to thank you for much kindness. I shall be glad to do so in person whenever you find such for time. Give me the opportunity. Faithfully yours Charles Dickens. addressee's name. Signed with Dickens' flourishing paraph. The letter and accompanying portrait were removed from an old frame and restored by a paper conservator.Mold was found on the reverse of the portrait with area of stain at foot of letter. Both were restored to their original conditions and left unframed in conservation papers. The work sheet of the conservator is included. Our research suggests that Dickens was visiting Gad's Hill in Kent when he said he had gone to the country as it was being renovated then retured to Devonshire Terrace for a short time before returning to Gad's Hill . He was also travelling extensively in Europe during this time. He used Gad's Hill as his country house until his death in 1870. I Devonshire Terrace was demolished in 1858-1859. A very nice example of a Dickens letter conserved and ready for framing. Letter of authentification is also included. unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 014582

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed regarding his son Harry to The Rev. John M. Brackenbury‎

‎1868. One page on Gads Hill Place stationery dated 21 May 1868. The text of this letter reads: I am deeply gratified by your praises of Harry; and I dearly hope that in his future career he will do us both justice. Nothing will occur I trust to prevent my having the pleasure of giving away the prizes on the day of the Sports. I am sorry to say that my surgeon forms a far less hopeful view of Harry's accident than yours does. Faithfully yours always signed Charles Dickens The Rev. Brackenbury was the headmaster of Wimbledon School which Dickens's 19-year-old son Harry had attended since 1861 and as "Head Censor" was nearing the end of his final year before going up that fall to Trinity Hall Cambridge the only Dickens child to attend university. Henry Fielding Dickens was the eighth of Dickens's ten children -- named of course for one of Dickens's favorite authors Henry Fielding; it is said that CD wanted to name him for another author Oliver Goldsmith but worried that his son would be teased at school as "Oliver asking for more." Earlier that same month Dickens had returned from his "exhausting" five-month tour of North America. Although Dickens here tells Brackenbury that nothing should prevent him from giving away the Sports prizes on May 30th the Wimbledon prizes would in fact be handed out by someone else "in the unavoidable absence" of Charles Dickens; his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth and his eldest daughter "Mamie" Dickens attended in his absence. As for "Harry's accident" referred to in the letter Dickens wrote about it the very next day in a letter to J.C. Parkinson: My boy is laid up at Wimbledon he is headboy there now and going up to Cambridge with a lamed knee. Having lamed it two years ago he was medically admonished not to jump -- of course therefore did jump -- and probably will never jump again. Dickens's "hope that in Harry's future career he will do us both justice" did come to fruition: Harry is generally considered to have been the most successful of the Dickens children becoming barrister Sir Henry Fielding Dickens K.C. Harry died in December 1933 when as was his custom he crossed a busy London street by raising his walking-stick rather than by looking both ways -- and was run over by a motorcycle. He was the last surviving Dickens child which is why Dickens's last book THE LIFE OF OUR LORD though written in 1846 was not published until early 1934 -- as Dickens had stipulated that it not be published until all his children had died. One final unrelated tidbit: on the very day after Dickens wrote this letter the last public hanging in Britain took place as the Capital Punishment Amendment Act took effect on the 29th; for decades but especially as revealed in his 1849 letters to The London Times Dickens had campaigned against public hangings -- not against the hangings themselves but against the public spectacles they had become. This letter documented in The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 12 page 115 is in fine condition original fold-marks from mailing. unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 14661

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎BARNABY RUDGE‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1871. Large thick octavo. Green cloth lettered in gilt decorated in blind. Frontis and plates by H.K. Browne G. Cattermole and others. Ink name on front free endsheet light rubbing a marginal ink intrusion toward the top forecorner of the prelims and fading to insignificance by page 38 faint ink blot about the size of a finger joint on rear board spine a shade sunned but an unusually good copy. Later impression of the separate book form first published in 1841. The binding on this copy is comparable to the type of cloth and stamping characteristic of the primary binding of DAVID COPPERFIELD but with Chapman & Hall's imprint at the toe of the spine. SMITH 6b ref. Chapman & Hall hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots of 'Eighty‎

‎Oxford: Oxford University Press 1989. The Oxford Illustrated Dickens. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 4 5/8 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 634 pages of text and with 76 illustrations by 'Phiz's Hablot K. Browne and George Cattermole. One of the volumes in the publisher's collection of 21 Dicken's works. Oxford University Press hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎BARNABY RUDGE;‎

‎1841. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Complete in One Volume. London: Chapman and Hall 1841. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. First Separate Edition. After NICHOLAS NICKLEBY was published in monthly serial parts with separate plates in 1838-1839 Dickens decided that his future novels would be published in weekly serial parts that included the illustrations within the text -- loosely connected under the title of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. He began this project in April 1840 with his tale THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP; after forty-plus parts he completed that tale and swung into the beginning of BARNABY RUDGE. In November 1841 after a total of 88 weekly parts BARNABY RUDGE was complete. During this serialization MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK containing both novels was also published in three volumes one at a time; after serialization in December 1841 each novel was also published separately in one volume as with BARNABY RUDGE here. This is why the pagination of BARNABY RUDGE is odd -- with the text running from page 229 to page 306 second half of Vol II of MH'sC then from page 1 to page 420 Vol III. At the conclusion of BARNABY RUDGE Dickens abandoned this weekly method of plate-less serialization and reverted to his prior method with MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. This copy is in the binding variant noted by Smith of olive green fine-diaper cloth blind-stamped with a chain-like design running around the border's inner surface as was later used on DOMBEY AND SON. The original endpapers are peach-coated -- one of several colors to be found without known priority. The volume is in very good condition with a bit of wear at the extremities of the spine and along the lower edges. The delicate original endpapers are only slightly cracked. Tough to find in better condition. Smith I pp 61-2. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 11219

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz"‎

‎Bentley's Miscellany With First Appearance of "Oliver Twist" in Magazine Form DICKENS Charles. Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz". London: Richard Bentley 1837-39. First edition of this compilation and the first magazine appearance of Oliver Twist with all of the plates many oxidized. Five octavo volumes. Measures 220 x 137 mm. Early brown cloth blindstamped on covers and gilt-stamped on spines. All edges gilt. Spines stained with what looks like to be a sticker remnants that turned black. Otherwise a very good set of this scarce compilation. "Preface. There is much in Bentley's Miscellany that is good. The "Contributions by Boz" presented here "Oliver Twist" "Jack Sheppard" "Guy Fawkes" "Ingoldsby Legends" "Nights at Sea" and other stories Illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech are undoubtedly the best. To collect such into separate books direct from the Miscellany appeared to me desirable inasmuch as in any other form they are but re-issues of these now famous combinations of literature and art. John Waugh. Roundwood Baildon November 1889". HBS 67504. $750 Richard Bentley hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Binding Fine- Sangorski & Sutcliffe The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full crimson morocco with highly decorative gilt designs and green morocco onlays on cover and spine gilt designs on back cover by Sangorski & Sutcliffe including alternating gilt busts of Samuel Pickwick and Sam Weller which recur in the spine panels. WITH SUPERB WATERCOLOR OVAL WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF DICKENS inset to inside upper cover mounted with brass edges ornate gilt and morocco onlay borders full morocco doublures and silk-free endpapers. A wonderful and truly imaginative binding. iii-xiv 2 609 pp. Lacking half-title. With 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and H.K. Browne. Some scattered light foxing some fraying to f.f.e.p. else fine. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2938

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Bleak House‎

‎London UK: Bradbury & Evans 1853. first. hardcover. very good. First edition first issue. One volume September 12 1853. Rebound. First issue points: "elgble" on p. 19 "chair" on p. 209 "cousinship"on p. 275 "picter" on p. 529 five line errata on xvi. Book in very good condition some wear previous owner's name on front free end paper mottling on first few pages. Bradbury & Evans unknown books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Bleak House‎

‎London: bradbury & Evans 1853. First. hardcover. good. H.K. Browne. With 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne. Thick 8vo old leather boards re-cased with a brown leather spine with raised bands leather label & blind-stamp decoration. London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with all three typographic errors. The Frontispiece & engraved title are heavily foxed. The plates are also foxed mostly at the edges.<br/><br/> bradbury & Evans unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 297742

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎BLEAK HOUSE‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First Edition First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo 624 pages; VG; With illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Errata listed after list of plates on xvi. First issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209 line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Half bound in red leather paneled spine has gilt lettering; binding has minor wear along the top and bottom edges has minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have marbling have dust build up along the top edge have minor age toning and blotching; has several newspaper clipping in the inner pages has occasional minor detachment shelved case 2. 1323477. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Bleak House‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition bound from the parts. Frontispiece vignette title-page and 38 etched plates by H K Browne "Phiz". xvi 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Recent half brown calf red morocco spine label. Some toning to plates as usual very good copy. Browne H.K. First edition bound from the parts. Frontispiece vignette title-page and 38 etched plates by H K Browne "Phiz". xvi 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'Fog everywhere. Fog up the river .'. Attractively bound copy of this Dickens classic. Smith pp 81-84 Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 316959

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Bleak House‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition bound from the parts. Frontispiece vignette title-page and 38 etched plates by H K Browne "Phiz". xvi 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco and cloth sides marbled endsheets marbled edges. Some traces of rubbing plates toned at margins some spotting text clean. Very good. Browne H.K. First edition bound from the parts. Frontispiece vignette title-page and 38 etched plates by H K Browne "Phiz". xvi 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Smith pp 81-84 Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 262100

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Bleak House‎

‎Bradbury & Evans London 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition in original cloth. Front and back hinges almost loose; some spots on covers; some foxing; overall a very good copy. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Bradbury & Evans, London hardcover books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0104408

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎BLEAK HOUSE‎

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

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