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Dickens Charles
Pictures from Italy: Genoa Venice Rome Naples Florence
Greenbrae California: The Allen Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. One of 140 copies quarto size 121 pp. The forty-seventh limited edition from The Allen Press being Charles Dickens' classic in travel literature. Written during a year-long sojourn in Italy 1844-45 after Dickens had already become famous as a result of his first three novels and "A Christmas Carol." Dickens leased a spacious villa in Genoa for his family in 1844 and from there began his travels writing detailed letters of his memorable experiences collected later for this book. The Allens rediscovered their own first edition of "Pictures from Italy" and decided it fit the qualifications they looked for in a text being a well known author an appropriate length text prose and not having been published lately in a de luxe edition.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full Venetian "Canestrelli" cloth hand-blocked by Fortuny at Venice Italy with a printed paper label to the backstrip fore- and tail-edges uncut early decorative Venetian title-page border title-page printed in black and red text printed in black and red running headings in brown green and violet decorative Venetian headpieces; Italian Old Style Monotype re-set by hand and Deepdene italic for display all-rag paper handmade and watermarked especially for The Allen Press by the Richard de Bas mill in France quarto size 10" by 6.75" limited edition one of 140 copies. In the publisher's clear acetate dust jacket.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy the cloth covers clean and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The acetate jacket is near fine still clear with only two very small chips out of the top edge where the panels meet the flaps and exceedingly minor exterior surface wear.<br/><br/>___CITATION: The Allen Press Bibliography no. 47.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Allen Press hardcover books
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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
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Dickens Charles
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
James Turney 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus first one volume American edition. Bound in 1/4 dark morocco over cloth boards. A well preserved very good copy with light scuffing along the spine and leather tips. 5 raised bands gilt-compartments and gilt lettering to spine. Thick octavo 607 pages 54 illustrations by Phiz and others. James Turney hardcover books
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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 Dickensà 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 ShakespeareÃs 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
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DICKENS Charles
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
DICKENS Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. A New Edition. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1850. Early American edition. Octavo. Full brown cloth decoratively blindstamped on covers gilt-stamped on spine. Tips bumped a little chipped at spine ends else very good. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith Dickens. HBS 66146. $200 Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
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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
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DICKENS Charles
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club two volumes
NY:: E. P. Dutton & Company. Near Fine. 1910. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 24 color plates and black and white illustrations . No statement of printing. Previous owner's Maine artist Fairfield G. Coogan book-plate on front paste-down and blind-stamp on front free endpaper of each volume else both volumes are near fine in gray and tan cloth with gilt and brown lettering and design. No dust jackets. Bindings are solid and tight. An attractive and well preserved set. . E. P. Dutton & Company, hardcover books
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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
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Dickens Charles
Roycroft Press- Very Rare The Holly Tree
East Aurora: Roycroft Press 1903. First edition thus. First edition thus. Original publisher's three-quarter "marbled" green morocco swirls of beige gilt spine. #72 of 100 Copies Printed on Japan Vellum signed by Hubbard. This particular title bound in 3/4 levant and Japan Vellum is quite scarce in fact McKenna did not examine a copy and states "A 'few' none examined printed on Japan Vellum and bound tooled in 3/4 leather." Superb borders throughout by Samuel Warner colored in green blue marroon and yellow.Corners rubbed near fine. With laid in notice "Birthday Dinner. The Dickens Fellowship" 4pp. 1927. <br/><br/> Roycroft Press hardcover books
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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
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Dickens Charles
SKETCHES BY BOZ
1837. illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of "Watkins Tottle and Other Sketches." Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition consisting of 1250 copies issued in February 1837. These are the twelve pieces that had been published in England two months earlier as "The Second Series" of SKETCHES BY BOZ. As is evident from this book's sub-title this Philadelphia firm had published the "First Series" of SKETCHES BY BOZ as WATKINS TOTTLE and Other Sketches nine months earlier. Later in 1837 Carey Lea & Blanchard reprinted this volume with the addition of "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "The Pantomime of Life" under the title THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE AND OTHER SKETCHES. This is a very good copy there is wear along the edges of the spine and the spine label is rubbed but wholly legible -- but this extremely fragile volume has held up very well for the past 180 years; the faint remnants of a shelf label are visible at the top of the spine and there is an old ink-stamped name at the top of the title page. Podeschi Yale A9; Wilkins had seen only the later reprint but noted "there had evidently been an earlier issue. unknown books
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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
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DICKENS Charles
Sketches By Boz
DICKENS Charles. CRUIKSHANK George illustrator. Sketches By Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With a Frontispice by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman and Hall 1850. First "Cheap Edition." Octavo. Original full green blindstamped cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Spine sunned and edges bumped with minor wear. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66223. $200 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
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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
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DICKENS Charles
Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People WITH: Sketches by "Boz" The Second Series
London: Macrone 1836. hardcover. fine. Cruikshank. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo full dark green morocco gilt spines gilt tops by Zaehnsdorf. London: Macrone 1836-1837.<br/><br/> Second edition of the first two volumes with an additional preface dated August 1836. The Second series complete in one volume dated 1837 on the title page & 1836 on the pictorial title is a first edition with pages 25 32 & 62 mis-numbered. Nice set of Dickens' first published work.<br/><br/> Macrone unknown books
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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
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Dickens Charles
Sketches By Boz in the New York Mirror Volume XIV. Dickens' Very First Literary Appearance in America
New York 1836-1837 1836. Hard Cover. Very Good. Folio. Charles Dickens' first appearance in America. Includes the 11 Sketches as follows: "Sketches by Boz": "The Fashionable Dancing Academy" p. 122; "Miss Evans an the Eagle" p. 134; "The Bloomsbury Christening" p. 146-47; "The Steam Excursion: p. 162-63; "Meditations in Monmonth Street" p. 177-178; "The Great Winglebury Duel" p. 186-87; "A Christmas Dinner" p. 202-03; "Excerpt from 'Pickwick;" p. 294; "Minns and His Cousin" p. 305-060; "Our Next Door Neighbors" p. 214-25; "The Parlour Orator" pp. 322-23. Bound in red cloth and marbled boards with paper spine label marbled endpapers. Red leather bookplate of Charlotte O. Field on front cover. Ex-library with bookplate on front paste-down library pocket rear paste-down. Boards worn at corners; very good. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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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
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Dickens Charles
SKETCHES BY BOZ;
1841. illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined and first American Illustrated Edition -- later 1841 printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY BOZ were published in 1836-1837 first in the UK and soon after by Carey Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia. Following that on both sides of the Atlantic the two series were combined with plates by Cruikshank and issued first in monthly parts in 1838-1839 and then in cloth in 1839; this is Lea & Blanchard's second printing of that 1839 combined edition. This copy is in the original cloth and is in very good condition a bit of wear at the spine ends one short marginal tear on a plate. Smith p. 23 he notes this copy -- with New Bedford bookseller's ticket. unknown books
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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
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Dickens Charles
SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES YOUNG LADIES YOUNG GENTLEMEN
1869. By Quiz sic. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Cassell Petter and Galpin; and 596 Broadway New York n.d. 1869. 2 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt black and red beveled. First American Collected Edition of all three "Sketches" -- two of which actually were written by Charles Dickens. In 1837 SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES had been pseudonomously written by "Quiz" actually Rev. Edward Caswall -- classifying these "members of the animal kingdom" into such categories as "Lazy Young Ladies" "Stupid Young Ladies" "Petting Young Ladies" and "Manly Young Ladies." The following year Dickens wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN anonymously -- not even using his pseudonym "Boz" as a protest against the earlier book -- in fact urging women to read his book on men as the "antidote" for Caswall's earlier one. Finally Dickens also wrote SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES published anonymously in 1840 and in England all three were published together in 1843. The first two titles LADIES and GENTLEMEN were in 1838 collected in one volume both by Carey Lea & Blanchard and by Wiley & Putnam but this 1869 volume was the first American to collect all three -- albeit inaccurately ascribing them all to "Quiz." This copy with the American address added to the title page is what Smith calls a "subsidiary edition" or "the American issue of the English impression." This is a handsomely bound book with binding design initialed "WR" by the Scottish binding designer William Ralston. It is in very good-plus condition minor wear at the extremities endpapers cracked. Smith pp 5-8; Podeschi/Gimbel Yale D56; not in Carr UTexas. Provenance: signed in pencil by Walter Smith this is the copy described and photographed in his 2019 bibliography. unknown books
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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
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Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Dedicated to Young Ladies
London: Chapman and Hall 1838. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full green morocco a.e.g. Spine tanned upper joint tender else Fine. Second edition. With 6 illustrations by "Phiz." viii 76 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
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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
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Standard
Two Issues of "The Standard" Where Dickens Gives Impression of Public Execution DICKENS Charles. The Standard. London: Charles Baldwin 1849. London: Nov. 16 1849 and Nov. 18 1849. Two issues. Measures 17 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Both issues discuss Dickens response and remarks to a public execution that he had witnessed known as the "Bermondsey Horror." This was first published in the London Times on Nov. 13 1849. The "Bermondsey Horror" was about a Swiss domestic servant by the name of Marie Manning who was convicted with her husband of the murder of her lover. Contains DickensÃs reactions to the dual public execution of the Mannings. A married couple accused of killing Mrs. ManningÃs young lover the Mannings were hanged in public outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Dickens had gone there the night before waiting overnight expressly in order to watch the hanging and note the crowdÃs reaction. Though the letter expresses strong disapproval at public spectacles such as this execution at the same time it reveals DickensÃs morbid curiosity and excitement at the event. It was here that Dickens wrote "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun." He later based one of his charactersóMademoiselle Hortense Lady Dedlock's maid in Bleak House. Newspapers have a bit of browning to the edges as expected. Overall a very good piece of Dickens history. Eckel p. 227 HBS 67227. $750 Charles Baldwin unknown books
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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
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DICKENS Charles
Strange Gentleman
Facsimile Edition Printed In 1871 DICKENS Charles. The Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta In Two Acts. By "Boz." First Performed at The St. James's Theatre On Thursday September 29 1836. Facsimile edition printed in 1871. Twelvemo. Original printed paper wrappers. Pages un-opened. Housed in a custom brown cloth portfolio gilt-stamped. The Strange Gentleman was written before Pickwick and was first performed on September 29 1836. The work is a dramatic adaptation of one of the authorÃs Sketches by Boz ìThe Great Winglebury Duel.î It was successful enough to run for sixty evenings. Carr VanderPoel Dickens B527 1. Gimbel A26. Eckel pp. 153-156. HBS 66161. $300 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
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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
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Sunday Under Three Heads. As It Is; As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; As It Might Be Made. By Timothy Sparks
London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. One of Three Printed on Vellum. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br/>Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown books
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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
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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 brown blindstamped boards & gilt stamped spine. VG tight/blinstamping sharp/sp slightly 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
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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 edition thus VanderPoel B571. Not in Gimbel nor the 1960 BL Catalogue Extract. Original purple blindstamped cloth. Good spine sunned/head of spine chipped. 452 pp. Frontis engraved title page & 6 inserted plates by Stephens & Beeler. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
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DICKENS Charles
Tale of Two Cities
First Edition First Issue of "A Tale of Two Cities" DICKENS Charles. BROWNE Hablot Knight illustrator. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first issue. With all eight of Smith's internal flaws necessary for the first issue present including page 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 3/16 inches; 207 x 132 mm. x 1-254 pp. Sixteen inserted plates including frontispiece and engraved vignette title by Browne 'Phiz'. Without the publisher's catalog bound at the end. Half green morocco over green linen cloth boards bound by Bayntun. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned to brown. Some occasional minor spots. Some light offsetting from plates. Plate facing page 150 with a closed one-inch tear. Overall a very good copy. A Tale of Two Cities was first serialized in DickensÃs periodical All the Year Round from April 30-November 26 1859. Its appearance in monthly parts July-December 1859 and book form mark DickensÃs return to his old publishers Chapman and Hall after a long stay with Bradbury and Evans. The extremely large audience for the novel in All the Year Round however left less than the usual demand for the parts issue and at first for the book both of which are now quite rare. This title also marks the authorÃs final collaboration with Phiz DickensÃs most evocative and most sympathetic illustrator. Hatton and Cleaver 33lff. Smith I 13. HBS 68305. $2750 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 68305
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Dickens Charles
THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST; OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS
London: Chapman and Hall 1863. viii311pp. Large octavo. Medium green cloth decorated in blind with frame scroll-like pattern on the boards spine lettered in gilt. With 24 steel-engraved plates by Cruikshank. Spine a shade sunned ink name on front free endsheet folded London TIMES clipping affixed to verso of half-title otherwise a very good copy internally fresh and bright with only the faintest hint of minimal foxing. Denoted "A New Edition Revised and Corrected" thus based on the text of 1846. The clipping is Cruikshank's own Dec. 1871 letter to the TIMES "The Origin of 'Oliver Twist.'" Though a late edition uncommon in this condition. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCLIT81990
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life
London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First Edition. Small Octavo. 175pp. 2pp. ads at rear illustrated half-title frontispiece engraved title page in the 4th state and regular title page bound in publisher's red pictorial gilt cloth pictorial spine gilt pale yellow coated endpapers all edges gilt. A very nice clean copy of this fourth Christmas book in a series by Dickens showing only very minor wear to spine ends and corners and a couple of tiny chips to outer edges of front endpapers. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 022479
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Dickens Charles
THE BATTLE OF LIFE
1846. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt.<br/><br/> First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE CHIMES and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man both ultimately settling in with him though only one is married to him -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth married her sister Catherine and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state Todd's state E1 with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint. In our experience at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright attractive copy just about fine with only the faintest hint of wear at the very tips volume slightly askew as usual. The front endpaper bears the inked inscription "Ellen F. Lee from her father December 25 1846" -- Christmas Day six days after publication. Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi Yale A116. unknown books
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition. Fine. Vignette title in the fourth state Smith II.8. Small 8vo: viii 175 1 2; complete. Tipped onto the advertisement leaf is a smaller leaf advertising "Monsieur Vlieland's Works" not described in Smith. A lovely Fine copy with some contemporary ownership markings at the front end papers otherwise an excellent copy both inside and out. <br/><br/>Dickens' fourth Christmas book and one of the lesser known books from the series. The Battle of Life centers on two sisters Grace and Marion who must contend with shared romantic attachments. After Marion disappears with a presumed libertine Michael Warden the family struggles to make sense of her sudden departure. But in standard Dickensian fashion the plot twists get resolved and happiness prevails for everyone. Fine. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1771
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Dickens Charles
THE BATTLE OF LIFE
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition fourth state. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition fourth state. Numerous b/w decorations and illustrations with a vignette and frontispiece. 175 pp. Hardcover. 16mo. Full dark green leather. Five raised bands ruled in gilt gilt lettering and devices tooled in compartments boards ruled in gilt with decorative corner devices gilt borders and turn-ins all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing; armorial bookplate; ownerÕs name in ink else very good in a lovely binding by Sorrell. Very good/No dust jacket. Insurance required to ship this item. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 33796
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life a Love Story
London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First Edition. 12mo. 175pp. 2pp. ads at rear illustrated half-title frontispiece engrave title page in the 4th state and regular title page bound in publisher's red pictorial gilt cloth beautifully rebacked raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated endpapers renewed all edges gilt. A very nice clean copy of this fourth Christmas book in a series by Dickens. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 017868
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life the Bibliographer's copy
London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. Fourth issue of the vignette title page. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. 175 pages 2 pages of ads at rear. The bibliographer's copy the binding of which is shown on page 59 of "Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth volume II" - this is that copy; bibliographer Walter E. Smith's copy signed by him on FEP. Staining to rear panel inner hinges cracked. Neat owner name on front pastedown. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 08290
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition second issue. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's decorative red cloth in a fine silk-lined maroon morocco clamshell case by Rivière. Minimal wear a bright copy. Some offsetting to the endpaper from the Richard Bayard Dominick bookplate which has become detached. 19 December 1846 ownership inscription on half-title. First edition second issue. 1 vols. 12mo. Usually encountered with the engraved title in the third or fourth state both the first and second issues are genuine rarities. The title banner in this second state does not have a supporting winged figure. Eckel p. 122; Sadleir 681 Bradbury & Evans unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 315072
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
London: Bradbury and Evans 1846 Illustrated by Richard Doyle John Leech and several others. First edition fourth vignette title page. Finely bound in contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt red speckled edges brown endpapers. A near fine copy with some rubbing to the board edges and covers early former owner bookplate to front pastedown. A very bright and attractive copy. The Battle of Life if the fourth book of five in Dickens' Christmas Books series and the only book to not have the religious or supernatural elements of the other books. Each novel in the Christmas Books series is marked by a strong moral and social message the transformation of a hardened character to a more caring individual and of course the holiday season. Unusual for Dickens all of The Christmas Books were published first as novels without prior serial publication. Additionally they are all illustrated in black and white with the exception of A Christmas Carol which contains plates with color illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : CD124
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Dickens Charles
THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The title page vignette is in the fourth state with an angel holding the banner and no publisher's imprint. The fourth of Dickens' five Chrismas novellas. Illustrations by Daniel Maclise Richard Doyle Clarkson Standfield and John Leech. 12mo. In a late 19th century one-half brown morocco over marbled paper binding with decorative gilt stamping five raised bands a black morocco spine label and new endpapers. Period bookplate and a small bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Mild rubbing to the boards with a few very faint stains; otherwise very good. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
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Dickens Charles
THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First Edition. Full-Leather. Small Octavo. 4th issue 175pp. 2pp. ads at rear illustrated bound in full polished calf by Riviere with original front cloth cover bound in at rear; boards triple ruled in gilt raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red and black morocco spine labels and all edges gilt; professionally rebacked and very nicely done preserving the original spine; previous owner's bookplates to front and rear pastedown internally quite fresh. A very good looking copy. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3541
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DICKENS Charles
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First Edition. Fourth State with Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette. Octavo 17cm; publisher's red vertical-ribbed cloth covers with decorative blind border surrounding a central gilt vignette with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece and title page 6 176pp plus ad leaf; illus. by G. and E. Dalziel Thomas Williams and W.T. Green after Richard Doyle Clarkson Stanfield John Leech and Daniel Maclise. Slight forward lean with thin crack to front hinge; wear to spine ends and lower board edges resulting in occasional board exposure; clean throughout - Very Good. The fourth of Dickens's five Christmas books. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
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DICKENS Charles
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
London Bradbury & Evans Whitefairs 1846. 1846. First edition second issue of the engraved title page vignette title page with publisher's imprint and no angel on the scroll. 8vo. 13 illustrations by D. Maclise R. Doyle J. Leech C. Stanfield et.al. Original gilt stamped red cloth a.e.g. Clean tight fresh copy with some slight rubbing; trace removal booksellers label on rear pastedown. Enclosed in a full red morocco slipcase with folding fleece lined chemise. F. Hardcover. London, Bradbury & Evans, Whitefairs, 1846. hardcover books
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Dickens Charles
The Battle of Life: A Love Story
London: Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars 1846. Hardbound. VG- wear and scuffing to extremities book and contents solid and clean. 3/4 Morocco green leather with marbled endpapers 5 raised bands.Engraved frontispiece and false title-page. Illustrated. 175 pp. Previous owners' notes indicate that this is the 4th issue bound without the 2 pages of ads at rear. A very nice copywith marbled page edges. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 104309
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Dickens Charles
The Bride's Chambers. Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Harry Stone
Santa Monica CA: Waxwing Editions 1996. Limited. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Jacobi Kathryn. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folio 154pp. #211 of 375 copies. Includes The Tangled Web and Introduction by Harry Stone. With 34 illustrations by Kathrym Jacobi. Illustrated endpapers. In gold stamped blue cloth boards. Waxwing Editions unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 007297
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DICKENS Charles
The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection
London: Sotheby 1975. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Edited with an Introduction by Michael Slater. Small 4to d.w. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1975. Fine<br/><br/> Sotheby unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 203478
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Dickens Charles
THE CHIMES
1845. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. With Illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1845. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in gilt.<br/><br/> First hardbound and fully-illustrated American edition -- preceded by only three days by E. Winchester's edition and by Harper's edition both of which were issued in wrappers and with one or no illustrations. "The L&B edition is almost an exact copy of the original English edition" with the same front cover decoration and with the same plates by John Leech Richard Doyle and others. The illustrations which in the English edition share pages with text were for this edition "extended" to occupy entire pages: "the work of the illustrations is very well done but it is doubtful if the changes have improved them any" quotes from Wilkins. This copy is bound in blue cloth; others are in yellowish-white or pink no priority. Curiously the binder's name "J.G. Russell Binder" appears in the lower margin of each cover's design. Condition is very good -- better than that externally as there is only minor soil and edge-wear. Unfortunately for the text pages a very cheap paper was employed such that today those leaves are heavily browned. This does not apply to the plates however which are quite white and bright. Smith pp 55-58 his illustrations are of THIS copy; Podeschi Yale A88; Wilkins p. 37. Provenance: penciled signature of bibliographer Walter Smith on the front endpaper where resides as well an inked 1851 gift inscription. unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 14292
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