‎Dickens charles‎

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Our Mutual Friend‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green wrappers housed in very good maroon leatherette chemise and slipcase backstrip lettered in gilt. Stone Marcus. 626 pages in text. 22 x 13.5 cm. First edition in the original 20 issues in 19 parts with 40 inserted plates by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat and his illnesses compelled him to write at a diminished speed.Thirty thousand copies were sold of the first number see: ECKEL p.94. With page "31" misprint instead of "13" in number ten and Our Mutual Advertiser in each issue. Lacking the scarce 4-page inset of "The Economic Life Assurance Society" in no. 14 but retaining the "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in nos. 19/20. HATTON & CLEAVER pp. 345-370. A few numbers with corner tears and creases twelve issue have their backstrips restored the plates generally clean practically all with the original tissue guards. Chapman and Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 20795

‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ANDREW LANG‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1907. THIRTY-EIGHT VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Top edges gilt. Original illustrations with tissue-guards. Printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868. Spines have mellowed to brown as is usual. Occasional light wear to corners. Small wedge of leather missing from top of spine of "Great Expectations". The edition was published in 34 volumes. Two additional volumes were added in the same year 1907 "The Life of Charles Dickens" by John Forster. In 1908 two additional volumes were added with "Miscellaneous Writings". All 38 volumes are present a pleasing and complete set of the works of one of Great Britain's most-revered authors. Due to size of this set postage will be extra. See photos. Later Edition. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octac. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 014461

‎Dickens Charles. 1812 1870 Editor / Publisher. King Louisa‎

‎MOTHER And STEP-MOTHER. In Twelve Chapters. From Dickens' Household Words. Uniform with Peterson's Edition of Charles Dickens' Works‎

‎Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1855. 1st US book publication. Original publisher's printed buff-paper wrappers sewn. Edgewear & soiling to wrappers with spine paper mostly perished. Damping to lower corner of last couples leaves with a bit of adhesion. A Good copy. 29 1 pp. Text double column. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>King presently an enigma in literary history. we know Dickens published two of her stories in Household Words with this being the second preceded by "Why My Uncle was a Bachelor" February 11 1854. On receipt of this story submission Dickens wrote her that he found "very great merit" in the effort. The story was seriallized in 3 issues beginning May 12 1855. Cf. Lohrli HOUSEHOLD WORDS 1973. <br /> <br />OCLC records 2 institutional holdings. <br /> <br />Rare. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 40533

‎Dickens Charles 1812 1870‎

‎To Be READ At DUSK. And Other Stories Sketches and Essays. Now First Collected‎

‎London: Redway 1898. 1st edition NCBEL III 820. Review copy. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering. VG sp slightly darkened/lt wear. 401 pp. illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Intro by Kitton author of "Dickensiana" bibliography - 1886 who asserts 24 of the 46 items in this collection not included in any previous bibliography. This copy has a "Sent for Review" perforation on half-title page. Redway hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 869.1

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Personal History of David Copperfield‎

‎New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No. First edition thus with illustrations in color by Frank Reynolds. 1911. Tissue guards present. An unfaded copy in quarto sized decorated red and gold cloth binding. Prior owner inscription from 1911 to front endpaper. Minor soiling to covers. Unfortunate tear to the binding near the spine crown see photo. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 30918

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - 20 Parts in 19 - A NEAR PRIME SET HAVING 8 OF 11 POINTS REQUIRED AND ANNOTATED BY BIBLIOGRAPHER THOMAS HATTON‎

‎London 1837 i.e. April 1836 - November 1837: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. First edition in the original monthly parts 20 parts in 19 original green printed wrappers "With forty-three illustrations by Seymour and Phiz" and Buss. A NEAR PRIME COPY lacking just 3 of the 11 points required in Eckel's bibliography "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens 1932." Eckel enumerates 16 known Prime Copies in his book; one other Prime Pickwick has come to market since then making a total of 17 known Prime Copies. In 2014 Charles Parkhurst owned Prime Pickwick number 17 which was sold that year in a private sale. These 11 points are enumerated below. Octavo i-vviviiviii-ixx-xixii-xivxv-xvi 12-609610. This outstanding set has the supressed Buss plates in part III. Parts with first state original plates are II III Buss V VII VIII IX X XI XIII XIV XV XVII XVIII XIX/XX; the remaining plates are 2nd state. ALL plates are before letters i.e. without captions. As called for in Hatton & Cleaver plates in parts I through XII have page numbers; plates in parts XIII through XIX/XX have no page numbers It should be noted that plates 26 and 27 in part XII are 1st issue and therefore have no page number as explained in Hatton & Cleaver p. 63 and in Miller & Strange p. 45. All plates are very good to fine. Plates in part XIV are browned at edges. All front wrappers are dated MDCCCXXXVI 1836. Parts having correct or first issue wrappers are: VI VII X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX; part VIII wrappers are second issue as usual first issue wrappers for part VIII are the rarest things in all of Pickwick re: Hatton & Cleaver all others are "early" state wrappers "early" here means "not first issue". Spines are expertly renewed on most parts. Owner name or initials are in margin of front wrapper of parts VII and XIX/XX. The Addresses are present in parts X XV XVII XVIII and XIX/XX. The Advertiser not issued in the first three parts is present and complete in parts XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX. Parts having the first issue text and in accord with Miller & Strange are parts VII X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX; parts having mixed issue text are V. Parts which are complete or having all the ads and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver are parts XI XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII; parts XII XIII and XIX/XX are lacking only one ad. Let us enumerate the 11 points required by Eckel for a Prime Pickwick: #1. All covers must bear the date 1836. #2. Parts I and II must carry the words on the front wrapper "With Four Illustrations By Seymour." #3. Part III the words "With Illustrations by R. Buss" on the front wrapper. #4. Part I must have four plates by Seymour signed and not re-etched by Phiz. #5. Part II must have 3 plates by Seymour signed. #6. Part III must have the two plates signed "Drawn and etched by R. W. Buss" and the page numbers. #7. Part IV has the two plates indistinctly signed "Nemo" and not "Phiz." #8. Parts II III X and XV must have the addresses by the Author. #9. Parts XVII XVIII and XIX/XX must have the Addresses by the publishers. #10. Plates in parts I to XII must have no captions only references to the pages where they were inserted; parts XIII to XIX/XX must have neither titles nor numerical guides. #11. On the vignette title page the name "Weller" on the signboard over the door must appear with a "V" and the signature "Phiz fecit" must surround the tablet at the bottom of the frontispiece. The present Pickwick lacks only numbers 2 3 and 8 above i.e. the illustrators names on the front wraps of parts I II and III and the Addresses in parts II and III. Descriptions of each individual part follow: Part I. Wraps are early plate 1 1st state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 2 2nd state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 3 2nd state of 1st Seymour plate; plate 4 1st state of 2nd Seymour plate VG Text is early front ad by Chapman & Hall is lacking. Part II. Wraps are early with insides blank plates are 1st issue fine text is early Address is not present. Part III. Wraps early with insides blank with the Buss plates Fine text is early lacking the Address lacks the front and rear ad. Part IV. Wraps are early plates are 1st plate second state fine text is early lacks the Advertiser. Part V. Wraps are early plates are 1st issue fine text is mixed lacks the Advertiser and 2 rear ads. Part VI. Wraps are correct first issue plates are 1st plate 2nd state VG text is early lacks the Advertiser. Part VII. Front and rear wraps are correct first issue; plates are 1st issue text is 1st issue lacks the Advertiser and rear ad. Part VIII. Wraps are 2nd issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is early lacking the Advertiser and rear ad. Part IX. Front wrap is correct rear wrap is early plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is early lacks the Advertiser and 2 rear ads. Part X. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state Fine text is 1st issue with the Address lacking the Advertiser. Part XI. Wraps are 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG with the Advertiser text is 1st issue complete. Part XII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plate 26 is 1st plate 1st state plate 27 is 1st plate 2nd state Fine text is 1st issue with the Advertiser lacking the Mechi ad at rear. Part XIII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser lacking the rare ad "Pigot's Coloured Views." Part XIV. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser and rear ad complete. Part XV. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser with the Address and rear ads complete. Part XVI. Wraps are correct 1st issue plate 34 is 1st plate plate 35 is 2nd plate VG text is 1st issue with the Advertiser complete. Part XVII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate 1st state fine text is 1st issue with all rear ads with the Advertiser with the Address complete. Part XVIII. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are 1st plate fine with the Advertiser with the Address with all rear ads complete. Part XIX/XX. Wraps are correct 1st issue plates are first state VG text is 1st state with the Advertiser with the Address with rear ads lacking only the Mechi slip. ANNOTATED in pencil BY DICKENS' BIBLIOGRAPHER THOMAS HATTON as follows: Part III note on p. 51 "Wants Buss Plates." but Buss plates are present here. Part X note on inside rear wrap "10 1st issue." Part XII note on verso of plate #26 "1st issue / No newspaper on floor" and on verso of plate #27 "2nd issue / No hat on front bench." Part XIV note on final leaf of rear ad "93/20." Part XVII note on plate #36 "at p. 504." Housed in a custom blue quarter-leather slipcase with chemise with armorial bookplate of Charles Parkhurst. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection The Heritage Book Shop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 09063

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Publisher's Presentation Copy; Original parts. Annotated By Bibliographer Thomas Hatton and from His Collection‎

‎London January 1843-July 1844: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. Publisher's Presentation Copy with "With The Publisher's Compliments" stamped onto front wrapper of part IV. ALL wrappers are correct. ALL ads and slips are present as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except for the rare "Foreign Travel" slip in part VII which is known in only 6 copies. Annotated by Thomas Hatton in part VIII on the verso of plate #15 thus: "M - C / Part 8 / A" and in part XVI on the verso of plate #32 thus: "Part 16 / A " as was his custom on certain ads and plates. First issue of the text conforming in all points to Smith pp. 65 - 67. Errata is 13 lines and the British Pounds symbol follows "100." The text in parts V and part VIII is UNOPENED therefore unread. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. The plates in part XXVIII are lightly age-toned all others are very good to fine; tissue guards are in place. Octavo i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. An outstanding set in every respect internally very clean and bright; minor soiling to a few wrappers; neat subscriber's name on front wrap of part XI; spines expertly renewed on most parts. Armorial bookplate on slipcase. Housed in a custom quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection the Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 185-212. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 09175

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens Boz‎

‎Philadelphia PA: Lea and Blanchard 1846. Early collected American edition of Dickens's writings preceded by a similar New York 1842 edition. 8vo. 3 volumes: 2 371 362; 2 212 268 323; 403 320 pp. printed double-column. Illustrated; extra title page for each novel; publisher's ads. Prints Pickwick Club Master Humphrey's Clock Oliver Twist Sketches by Boz Barnaby Rudge Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit. OCLC locates three copies Wesleyan Yale Princeton giving the date "1846-1848"; this copy is dated 1846 throughout. Original brown cloth spine ends a little worn gilt spine titles. Several leaves in volume three badly foxed else very good and quite scarce in the original bindings in nice condition. 1430 $1500.00. <br/><br/> Lea and Blanchard hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 54499

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Publisher's Presentation Copy; Original parts. Annotated By Bibliographer Thomas Hatton and from His Collection‎

‎London January 1843-July 1844: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. Publisher's Presentation Copy with "With The Publisher's Compliments" stamped onto front wrapper of part V. ALL wrappers are correct. Substantially all ads and slips are present as called for by Hatton & Cleaver with the following exceptions: the rare "Foreign Travel" slip in part VII which is known in only 6 copies; the "Pride of London slip in part XI and the "Temple of Fashion" slip in part XVI. Annotated by Thomas Hatton in part I on margin of the "Tea" add "M.C. I" and on margin of the "Extracts from the Britannia" ad on page 1 "M.C. I" and on page 3 "MC. at end of Pt I" - also annotated on the front wrap of the Wyld's Globes ad "M.C. I" as was his custom on certain ads. Laid in to part XI is a manuscript note by Thomas Hatton: "Martin Chuzzlewit / Part XI / 7 copies - Incomplete / Text only." First issue of the text conforming in all points to Smith pp. 65 - 67. Errata is 14 lines the 13 line errata was correct but changed to balance the format. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. All plates are very good to fine; tissue guards are in place. Octavo i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. An outstanding set internally very clean and bright; minor soiling to a few wrappers; subscriber's name on front wrap of parts XIII and XV; most parts have spines expertly renewed. Armorial bookplate. Housed in a custom quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection the Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 185-212. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 09051

‎Charles Dickens G. K. Chesterton Introduction B. W. Matz Preface‎

‎A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE. BEING A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS‎

‎Boston: Charles E. Lauriat 1922. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 16mo.; facsimile; in the terra cotta ribbed cloth with decorations in gilt and stamped in blind; with illustrations in color and woodcuts by John Leech; with two facsimiles as well; with green coated endpapers; all edges gilt; previous owner bookplate on the pastedown and signature on the first blank leaf.~~An attractive and rather uncommon facsimile.~~~. Near Fine binding. Charles E. Lauriat unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 293144

‎Dickens Bob‎

‎Institutional racism‎

‎Buffalo NY: Friends of Malatesta 1971. Single legal-size sheet printed both sides neat fold crease date and "Buffalo Anarchist" penciled on front otherwise very good. Argues that individual attitudes might improve but this will make no difference without dramatic institutional changes particularly in schools. Friends of Malatesta unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 261437

‎Dickens Charles 1812 1870. Storey Graham; Tillotson Kathleen & House Madeline Editors‎

‎The LETTERS Of CHARLES DICKENS. The Pilgrim Edition. Volume Three: 1842 - 1843‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press 1974. 1st printing. Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. NF push to text block/VG some minor wear & soiling with chip to left base of front panel. xxv 3 692 pp including Index. Frontis a map & playbill reproductions. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>The most complete edition of Dickens' letters 772 herein with 264 first published. Clarendon Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 697.7

‎Dickens Charles. 1812 1870. Eckel John C.‎

‎The FIRST EDITIONS Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS And Their Values. A Bibliography‎

‎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

Bookseller reference : 32228.2

‎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

Bookseller reference : 14661

‎Dickens Bob‎

‎The Parts Are All Around Us‎

‎Buffalo NY: Friends of Malatesta 197-. Pamphlet. 12p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches illus. wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Anarchism of the "tribal-communal-natural" variety. Friends of Malatesta unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 261053

‎Dickens Bob‎

‎Synthesis is Our Only Possibility. Part two of: 'the parts are all around us'‎

‎Buffalo NY: Friends of Malatesta 197-. Pamphlet. 12p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches illus. pen notation on front wrap else very good condition. Anarchist of the "tribal-communal-natural" variety. Friends of Malatesta unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 59900

‎Dickens Bob‎

‎Institutional racism‎

‎Buffalo NY: Friends of Malatesta 1971. Single legal-size sheet printed both sides edgeworn with a few small closed tears otherwise very good. Argues that individual attitudes might improve but this will make no difference without dramatic institutional changes particularly in schools. Friends of Malatesta unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 260910

‎Bookchin Murray and Bob Dickens‎

‎Anarchy and organization: a letter to the left by Murray Bookchin with Anarchism terrorism and individualism by Bob Dickens‎

‎Buffalo NY: Friends of Malatesta 1970. Pamphlet. 7p. stapled wraps 5.5 x 8.25 inches small sticker scar on front wrap else very good condition. Friends of Malatesta unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 260061

‎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

Bookseller reference : 14618

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE and Other Sketches.‎

‎1837. By Boz. To which is added The Pantomime of Life by the same author. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Bound in full mottled calf with raised bands on the spine. First Edition so collected. In January 1837 Carey Lea & Blanchard published a "Library of Fiction" anthology volume titled THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE "Together with Other Tales by Distinguished Writers" -- the first American appearance of that one Dickens sketch. A month later CL&B published a volume titled SKETCHES BY BOZ which consisted of the Dickens sketches contained in the Second Series of the British SKETCHES BY BOZ neither the UK nor the US edition included "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate". In June of the same year CL&B published this volume which combines "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" into their earlier "Sketches by Boz" plus adds for the first time an additional Dickens sketch "The Pantomime of Life." Only 1000 copies were printed. Attractively rebound in this understated full-calf binding this is a close-to-fine copy damp-mark at the top of some leaves toward the rear. Podeschi Yale A10; Wilkins p. 11. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 14619

‎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

Bookseller reference : 14383

‎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

Bookseller reference : 14158

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation‎

‎1842. Boz' Works -- No. 21. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1842. Original self-wrapper serving as title page; lacking the rear wrapper. Fourth American Edition just two days after the first! -- second issue. 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 9th 1842 two days after Winchester's "New World" edition and Wilson's "Brother Jonathan" edition -- and one day after Harper's 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 Lea and Blanchard edition has 103 pages of double-column text -- actually 107 pages because inserted between pages 88 and 89 are the two leaves containing pages 85 through 89 a portion of text that the printers in their rush had omitted. It was initially published on November 9th with a frontispiece portrait of Dickens and with "With a Portrait of the Author" on the title page/front wrapper; it was priced at 25 cents double the "New World" and "Brother Jonathan" prices -- i.e. doomed. Thus on the very next day the 10th L&B announced a "new edition" but really just altered copies priced at 12-1/2 cents withOUT the portrait and with the pertinent line on the title page heavily inked out. This is such a second-issue copy the heavy swath of ink gradually ate away that part of the title leaf leaving a long narrow hole that has since been backed by archival paper. This copy was apparently once bound up in something more substantial and now lacks its rear wrapper; the front leaf and final leaf have significant edge-wear. In our experience this is the scarcest and the most fragile of the four earliest American editions. Not in Podeschi Yale; not in Carr UTexas B479; not noted by Wilkins. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 14159

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎HARD TIMES‎

‎1854. From Dickens' "Household Words." New-York: Published by T.L. McElrath & Co. 1854. Original light tan wrapper with the imprint of Fetridge & Co. Boston. First American Edition published on August 8 1854. HARD TIMES first appeared in America in twenty weekly issues of Household Words in May to September 1854. In an 1857 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper there is a brilliant account of the 1854 McElrath and Harper editions of HARD TIMES that had come out three years earlier; we quote it here with the kind permission of our friend Walter Smith bibliographer of Dickens's American editions. When young McElrath. a beginner in the business succeeded in securing the right to the advance sheets of Dickens's "Hard Times" by paying fifteen hundred dollars -- a price which the Harpers would not pay -- they the Harpers determined to oppose him. The only advantage that could accrue to him from his heavy outlay was the receipt of the few last chapters two or three weeks in advance of their publication in London. These he received printed the whole in book form and expected to remunerate himself by the sale of a large edition before other publishers could get out the English copy. He trusted to the courtesy and honor of the other publishers to secure him in the possession of his honorably purchased right. But the Harpers were waiting for him. They had kept pace with the publication chapter by chapter and on the day that McElrath issued the book complete they probably secured the first copy set up the last chapters and the next day came out with an edition at half the price sold a large edition at cost price entirely stopped the sale of McElrath's book robbed him of the profits of his enterprise and literally crushed the young rival out of existence. Though the title page of this copy reads "New-York: Published by T. L. McElrath & Co. 1854" the front wrapper reads "Boston: Fetridge & Co. 1854." Fetridge was not a publisher but rather a retailer who had arranged to be a distributor of McElrath's edition; this is one of several binding variants of the first edition. This copy does have the 25-cent price on the wrapper so it may have been an earlier copy sold; other copies most likely those sold at a discount after Harper had killed their sales bear no price. This copy is in good-to-very good condition -- quite collectible for such a fragile volume some wear to the wrapper edge about half of the wrapper's plain spine chipped away light damp-stain at the foot of the last few leaves. Smith pp 323-328 binding C Fetridge; Podeschi A138 third and sixth copies; not in the VanderPoel collection. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 13476

‎Dickens Charles and Collins Wilkie‎

‎THE DICKENS-COLLINS CHRISTMAS STORIES‎

‎1876. Comprising No Thoroughfare and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Boston: William F. Gill & Company 1876. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition thus so combined into one volume. These were both collaborations between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins brother of Dickens's daughter's husband -- "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" had appeared in Dickens's periodical Household Words in 1857 while "No Thoroughfare" had been the final 1867 Extra Christmas Number of Dickens's subsequent periodical All The Year Round. Each tale has its own Gill title page and each has a frontispiece illustration but the two stories are continuously paginated. Very good-plus condition minor wear at the extremities front endpaper cracking at the hinge. Podeschi Yale D75. Provenance: bookplate of William Self being from lot 179 in his sale at Christie's. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 12503