New York 1927. 1st printing presumed. Not listed in Bolton though see PP 130 recording a later 5 September 1927 opening. Printed self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Partially disbound a Good copy. Unpaginated though 10 pages lacking a leaf. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>First produced 2/15/27 in Washington DC. where reports note that the production enjoyed quite a bit of success eventually making its way to NYC where it ran for 72 performances. Here we offer a program announcing its April debut in New York City though we speculate the opening was in fact in September evidently delayed from what this Shubert Majestic advertising leaflet/program publicized. unknown
London: John & Charles Watkins Photographer to the Queen 34 Parliament Street n. d. Ca late 1860s / early 1870s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. List signs of use bit of fading to image. Overall Very Good. Watkins imprint under Dickens image; verso with the Watkins device in center & his address printed at the below. Image: 8.8 cm x 6 cm. Card: 10.7 cm x 6.2 cm. <br/><br/>Nice contemporary CDV of Dickens with the photograph affixed to stiffer card stock. Image shows a seated Dickens with a contemplative look right hand to right check. Image from the 1860s. John & Charles Watkins, Photographer to the Queen 34, Parliament Street unknown
n. p. n. d. Ca 1870s. No photographer imprint. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. With light signs of use bit of fading to image. Penciled to verso: "Gads Hill / W. Rochester / long dash / Dicken's' House in a different hand". Overall Very Good. Oblong format: Image: 6 cm x 18.5 cm. Card: 6.2 cm x 10.3. <br/><br/>Nice 19th C. CDV of Dickens' home with the photograph affixed to stiffer card stock. unknown
London: Partridge and Co 1860. 1st Edition. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Custom blue quarter-leather clamshell case. Volume with extremity wear & rubs. Bookplate of Samuel Meeks. Slightly shaken. Overall VG. Case with rubs to front joint which is starting at the bottom VG. viii 152 pp. Errata slip tipped-in prior to Contents page. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>From the publisher's preliminary note "The writer begs to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Charles Dickens who has permitted him to reprint his Contributions to 'Household Words.' He has partially availed himself of this permission by including 'Sleep' 'Unopened Buds' and 'A Lost Treasure' in the present volume and reserves other contributions for a future collection." A pasted-in bookseller slip & handwritten penciled note to the ffep attribute these 3 poems to Dickens however we note from Lohrli these poems were actually written by one unidentified individual by the name of "Harris" presumed author of the this entire volume of verse. OCLC records 3 holding institutions only one in the US. Rare in the trade. Partridge and Co hardcover
London: Bradbury & Evans 1856. 1st Appearance. Cf. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 314 - 315. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Average wear & soiling to wrappers. Extremity browning and a spot or two of foxing to plates. Overall a Very Good example. 12 97 - 128 6 pp. 2 plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz. 8vo. 8-15/16" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown
London: Chapman & Hall 1843. 1st Appearance. Cf. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 378 - 379. Original publisher's printed green paper wrappers. Average wear & soiling to wrappers. Very Good Plus. 12 129 - 160 4 2 pp. Lacks concluding 8 pp advert "Prospectus . Thomas Boys". 2 plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown
New Orleans: A. A. Turner Photographer n. d. Ca early 1860s. Photograph mounted on white card stock gilt rule edge. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Minor wear. VG. Verso with photographer imprint with second retailer stamp "Geo. S. Tolman Fancy Goods Boston" affixed overtop obscuring most of the imprint. Image of Dickens seated at his desk quill pen in hand writing. 4" x 2-3/8" <br/><br/> A. A. Turner, Photographer unknown
Boston: Published by Henry Prentiss 33 Court St 1842. 1st edition thus Miller p. 226; Tilton p. 515. Not in Gimbel though see H783 with a similar publication by W. H. Oakes citing music by James G. Meader. White paper wrappers with front cover have an stipple engraved image of Dickens after Maclise surrounded by a floral chromolithographed border by Thayer & Co Boston. Age-toning & light foxing. Evidence of being previously bound. Very Good. Unpaginated though 4 pages. Small folio: 13" x 10" <br/><br/>The referenced dinner was sponsored by a committee of 'Young Men of Boston' who had extended their invitation to the also young but already famous author before he left England. The dinner was held in Papanti's Hall with Josiah Quincy Jr as Chair who was ably assisted by Oliver Wendell Holmes & Nathan Hale Jr; the young James T. Fields was a guest. Also in attendance was "Josiah Quincy Sr the president of Harvard Washington Allston the poet & artist; George Bancroft the Historian & Richard Henry Dana Jr. . Letters were read from Prescott Washington Irving William Ellery Channing Judge Story and others regretting their inability to be there." OCLC records 4 holding institutions. Rare in the trade. Published by Henry Prentiss 33 Court St unknown
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd 1949. 1st edition. Green cloth binding. No dust jacket. Slight lean. Cloth a bit soiled. Very Good. XI 1 366 pp. Illustrated with 15 plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> Metheun & Co. Ltd hardcover
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1965. 1st edition. Light brown cloth binding brown title label lettered in gilt to spine. Plae orange topstain. Yellow illustrated DJ printed in black white and brown. A VG book in a VG jacket which has a sunned spine panel & is price-clipped. vii 1 162 6 blank pp. 8-5/8" x 6" <br/><br/>Another examination of Dickens relationship with Ellen Ternan. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1936. 1st edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Blue topstain. No dust jacket. Slight lean. Cloth dull. Very Good. ix 1 240 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Selections from Dickens; issued in the Pickwick Centennary. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd hardcover
London: Alexander Macklehose & Co 1932. 1st edition. Orange cloth binding with red stamped lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Slight lean. Cloth a bit soiled. Very Good. xvi 148 4 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Alexander Macklehose & Co hardcover
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1970. 1st edition. Red cloth binding. Brown dust jacket. VG/VG some wear/pc. ix 3 172 pp including Index. Illustrated from B&W photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
London: Published by the Eagle and British Dominions Insurance Co. Ltd 1917. 1st Edition. Original publisher's flexible blue leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping. TEG. Pictorial eps. Ribbon page marker. Slight lean. Modest wear. Bit of edge foxing. Withal an attractive VG copy. xi 1 blank 297 3 pp. Frontispiece in colour by E. M. Ward; many full-page illustrations text illustrations facsimilies etc by E. Coffin. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Chapter 13 pp. 118 - 124 address the Eagle policy in favor of Mr. Dickens. Published by the Eagle and British Dominions Insurance Co. Ltd hardcover
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons n. d. Ca late 1920s . Not in Gimbel nor Miller. Green cloth binding with pictorial paper onlay to front board. No dust jacket. Some shelfwear. Slightly shaken. POI to ffep dated 1928. An About VG copy. 143 1 pp. Last page an advert. Illustrated by Harold Copping and others. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> Raphael Tuck & Sons hardcover
n. p. 1879. 1st printing presumed. Printed self wrappers. One tiny 1 mm chip at the edge else a fine copy. Broadside on thin peach colored paper. 11-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/>A "programme" for a reception of dramatic scenes from "Old Curiosity Shop" "David Copperfield" and Mr. Pickwick. Very scarce indeed no library holdings found. unknown
London: E. Rimmel 1874. 1st printing presumed. Bolton BL no. 25. Printed self wrappers. A VG copy some age toning and chips at fore-edge some scattered stains no text is obscured. Single leaf folded vertically to form 4 pp. Elaborate pictorial title-page. Folded: 9-3/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>The Gaiety Theatre The Strand London was where Dickens saw his last play in 1869. This production of The Battle of Life was edited for the stage by Charles Dickens Jr. and starred prominent actors John Lawrence Toole 1830-1906 as Ben Britain and Ellen Farren 1848-1904 as Clemency Newcombe. No library holdings found on OCLC: scarce. The play opened on December 26 1873. E. Rimmel unknown
New York: Que Cards Inc 1965. 1st edition thus. Disbound cards in a white and yellow plastic sleeve with a brass snap closure. Fine/Like New. ii 56 pp. disbound. 5" x 3" <br/><br/>Everything you need to know for higher grades! Que Cards, Inc unknown
New York: Que Cards Inc 1965. 1st edition thus. Disbound cards in a white and yellow plastic sleeve with a brass snap closure. Fine/Like New. ii 56 pp. disbound. 5" x 3" <br/><br/>Everything you need to know for higher grades! Que Cards, Inc unknown
Boston 1871. 1st printing presumed ca 1870. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; a few small tears at edges and one central pin hole that runs through all four pages; overall very good. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Engraved borderds and illustrations in text. Folded: 10-1/4" x 6-9/16" <br/><br/>A playbill for a production of "No Thoroughfare" at the Boston Theatre with Charles Fechter playing the role of Jules Obenreizer and Carlotta Leclercq in the role of Marquerite. The playbill has many local advertisements and some information about the theatre company in the years 1870 and 1871. Charles Fechter travelled from London to the United States in 1870 and enjoyed a very succesful career in Boston. Critics disaproved of his "Hamlet" also advertised on this playbill but were captivated by his refined style and Continental training Hornblow vol. 2 p. 214. unknown
Boston 1879. 1st printing presumed. Printed self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; bit of fore-edge rash to top half of bill overall VG. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Engraved headpiece and small engravings in text for ads. 11-7/8" x 9" <br/><br/>Apparently this play a crowd favorite at the Boston Museum for Bolton records earlier performances in 1877 & 1878 cf. CH 80 & 83. unknown
San Marino: The Huntington Library 1953. 1st edition. Marooon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. NF/NF. xi 1 445 pp including index. 8vo. <br/><br/>Fields & Dickens close friends; Chap 21 on Dickens. The Huntington Library hardcover
Boston: Boston Job Print Alden Street n. d. 1st printing presumed ca 1880. Not found in Bolton. Age-toning to paper with small diagonal crease to upper right corner otherwise VG. Single sheet broadside 10-1/4" x 4-3/8" 17 lines of text. <br/><br/>A playbill advertising LeMoyne & "His Celebrated Company" with "the entire Company in both Pieces." as appearing at Bangor Maine's famed Norembega Hall erected in the mid-1850s. Le Moyne an actor of some repute who after the Civil War "returned to the stage where he remained active until the dawn of the twentieth century. He appeared in a number of plays based on the works of Charles Dickens as here playing such characters as Fagin Captain Cuttle Uriah Heep Squeers Plummer Dick Swiveller and Caleb. In Shakespeare's Hamlet Le Moyne is said to have played every major male role except that of the prince himself. Over his career Le Moyne performed with companies headed by legendary actors Edwin Booth Edwin Forrest and Charles Fletcher and in producer Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Theatre Company." Wiki Brougham's Old Curiosity Shop apparently first performed in Boston 1866 cf. Bolton OCS 10; we find no record of this performance in Bolton nor whatsoever of "Uriah Heep the 'Umble". perhaps a bespoke piece tailored strictly for LeMoyne. Boston Job Print, Alden Street unknown
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press 1939. 1st printing. Saddle-stitched sage-colored paper wrappers printed in black. Light age-toning. A VG copy. Unpaginated though 8 pages. Includes laid-in leaflet with a blurb from Mitchell Kennerley extolling the virtues of the set. 2 illustrations plus facsimile title page illustrated with a cut. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/> The Nonesuch Press unknown
London: The Dickens Fellowship 1907. 1st printing NCBEL III 787. Green printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wrappers quite worn with a large piece reattached with tape to back side to front panel lower left. Good only. 116 pp. 10 illustrations. 8vo. <br/><br/>Exhibition held to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Completion of the 'Pickwick Papers'. The Dickens Fellowship unknown
New York: Simon and Schuster 1952. 1st Edition. Hardbacks. Dust jackets. VG light toning to page blocks p.o. bookplate to front paste-downs/ VG light edgewear/pc. 2 volumes xxii 585 xlvii; viii 586 - 1159 9 lxix - cxcvii pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>The most scholarly biography to-date. Uncommon in the first edition as the title was also issued by the BOMC. Simon and Schuster hardcover
New York: Sheldon and Company 1862. 1st printing of this edition cf. Gimbel D38. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Average wear with usual light fraying to spine ends. A VG set. 4 volumes 322; 312; 306; 336 pp. Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in Volumes I II & IV; by John Gilbert in Volume II. Small 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Sheldon and Company hardcover
London: Chapman & Hall 1864. 1st edition Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345 - 370. Original green printed wrappers. Housed in a custom chemise and deep green full morocco pull-apart case with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Age-toning. 1st two parts as well as the final show some wear & edge chipping. Part 12 with largish chip to top of front wrapper affected "April". Part 15 lacking tip of front wrapper lower corner. Part 18 with tear to rear wrapper fore-edge. Overall condition of Parts: VG - VG. Case: Some minor wear with interior lip showing some chafing at top corners from removal of top portion's tight fit. Overall VG. 20 parts in 19. Some advert variances /- from that found listed in Hatton & Cleaver; specific collation supplied on request. Illustrated with 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown
London: T. N. Foulis 1913. 2nd printing. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & black lettering to front board. Blue topstain. Slight lean. Spine a bit dull. Very Good. 10 347 1 blank pp including index. Frontispiece. Inserted plates. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>A look at those that perhaps occasioned the characters that populate Dickens' novels. T. N. Foulis hardcover
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs n. d. Circa 1917. Brown paper wrapped boards with color printed paper onlay to front board. Spine stained. Extremity wear. POI to front eps which have offset. An About VG copy. 183 pp. 8 inserted color plates by F. M. B. Blaikie. 8vo 6" x 8". <br/><br/> George W. Jacobs hardcover
London: A & C Black 1905. 1st edition NCBEL III 849. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. TEG. Average wear. A VG - VG copy. xiv 235 5 pp including Index. 4 pages of advert conclude volume. Illustrated with 50 full-page illustrations mostly from photographs by T. W. Tyrrell. 8vo. <br/><br/> A & C Black hardcover
New York: Burt Franklin 1970. Reprint of the revised & enlarged 1928 2nd edition. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Spine lightly sunned. A VG copy. xxii 375 1 blank pp. Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. <br/><br/> Burt Franklin hardcover
London: Chapman & Hall 1911. 1st edition NCBEL III 831. Purple cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Abt VG spine sunned to tan. xii 318 2 pp. 41 illustrations. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916. Reprint of the 1914 edition. Green vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamped lettering. VG spine dull. xvi 127 1 blank pp. Illustrated with plates & facsimiles by the author. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
London: James Nisbet & Co 1913. 1st Trade Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt and embossed face of Dickens face stamped to front board. Gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. TEG. Sunning to spine and biopredation to spine and front board soiled foxing through out book PO stamp to inner front board. Withal an About Good copy. xiv 320 pp including index. 39 plates. 10" x 7" <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co hardcover
New York: E. J. Hale 1873. Early printing of the volume edition Gimbel D67. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with elaborate black & gilt stamping. Bevelled edges. Extremity wear with board showing at tips. About Very Good. 564 pp. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> E. J. Hale hardcover
London: Chatto & Windus 1899. 1st edition thus NCBEL III 848. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & a graphic in black to front board. Cocked. Spine a bit dull. Frontis tissue guard age-toned. Very Good. ix 1 blank 307 1 pp including Index. 58 woodcut illustrations. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
London: The Educational Book Co. Ltd n. d. 1st edition ca 1910. Blue cloth binding gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and cover. Blue topstain. Light wear & soiling. Spine gilt bright. A VG - VG copy. xvi 607 1 blank pp. Frontis 72 illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/> The Educational Book Co. Ltd hardcover
London: Wass Pritchard & Co 1923. 1st edition NCBEL III 849. INSCRIBED by the author in the 3rd person on the ffep dated 1926. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Spine sunned. Very Good. 2 blank 103 1 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Somewhat uncommon item. Wass Pritchard & Co hardcover
London: Chapman & Hall 1915. 1st edition NCBEL III 840. INSCRIBED. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. VG spine lightly sunned/minor spotting to lower left qtr of rear board/usual bit of foxing to end leaves. x 2 261 9 pp. 7 page Index @ rear. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Inscribed from Crotch to a Mrs Dale on the half-title page. Chapman & Hall hardcover
London: Chapman and Hall n. d. Later edition ca mid-19th C. Original publisher's green cloth binding rebacked with 95% of original spine laid down. Yellow eps. Spine sun-tanned. Prior owner signature/inscription to ffep. A VG - VG copy. xiv 2 609 1 blank pp. Illustrated with 43 plates by Seymour & Phiz. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press 1978. 1st edition. Purple cloth binding silver stamped lettering to spine. Dark purple printed DJ. VG light stain to top text-block corner/bookplate/VG modest wear. x 340 pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations and photographic images. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover
Philadelphia: Lippincott 1927. Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Spine a bit dull. Bookplate. Very Good. 284 4 blank pp. Bound from the British sheets. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Lippincott hardcover
London: The Caxton Publishing Co n. d. 1st edition thus. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. VG some foxing. 504 pp including index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Published in 1902 as part of the "London" edition of Charles Dickens' works also issued in a 2 volume edition. The Caxton Publishing Co hardcover
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