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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎the Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby The Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Corners v lt bumped spine faded lt worn at ends rear endpp & last 2 pages. Cleartype Edition Vol IX of 20-vol set. Burgundy cloth with stamped cover gold spine lettering on black ground. Text as amended by Dickens in 1867-68.s creased at lower corner else clean & tight. <br /><br /> Books, Inc hardcover‎

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‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Dickens' Journalism: The Amusements of the People and other Papers: Reports Essays and Reviews 1834-51 Volume 2: The Amusements of the People - Reports Essays and Reviews 1834-51 Vol 2‎

‎GB: Dent 1997. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. . Reprint. Paperback. VG. Dent Paperback‎

Referencia librero : v070.006 ISBN : 0460878808 9780460878807

‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty‎

‎Panther Books 1964. Paperback VG- foxing on cover; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost. Panther Books 1964 paperback‎

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‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎The Mystery of Edwin Drood‎

‎Signet Classics 1961. Paperback VG; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost. Signet Classics 1961 paperback‎

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‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎Christmas Books‎

‎Paul Elek Limited 1960. Paperback VG; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost. Paul Elek Limited 1960 paperback‎

Referencia librero : 197698

‎A. G Dickens‎

‎The German nation and Martin Luther‎

‎1974-01-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0061361410 ISBN : 0061361410 9780061361418

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Bleak House: An authoritative and annotated text illustrations a note on the text genesis and composition backgrounds criticism A Norton critical edition‎

‎1977-03-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0393043746 ISBN : 0393043746 9780393043747

‎Peter Dickens‎

‎Night Action‎

‎1975-02-10. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0432027653 ISBN : 0432027653 9780432027653

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Oliver Twist Signet Classical Books‎

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Referencia librero : 0451000153 ISBN : 0451000153 9780451000156

‎Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain Charles Dickens‎

‎Classics of World Literature : Charles Dickens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain‎

‎1982-01-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0517630095 ISBN : 0517630095 9780517630099

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎A Child's History Of England 1889‎

‎2007-11-10. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0548792925 ISBN : 0548792925 9780548792926

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎A Child's History of England‎

‎2008-10-04. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0559194323 ISBN : 0559194323 9780559194320

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Charles Dicken's Stories from the Christmas Numbers‎

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Referencia librero : 0559816170 ISBN : 0559816170 9780559816178

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Christmas Stories‎

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Referencia librero : 1355382491 ISBN : 1355382491 9781355382492

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Tale of 2 Cities Short Classics‎

‎1991-06-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0811468402 ISBN : 0811468402 9780811468404

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎The Cricket on the Hearth‎

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Referencia librero : 1161460462 ISBN : 1161460462 9781161460469

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎The Story Of Little Dombey 1858‎

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Referencia librero : 1165661179 ISBN : 1165661179 9781165661176

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens‎

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Referencia librero : 1297645081 ISBN : 1297645081 9781297645082

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎A Detective Police Party‎

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Referencia librero : 1447404335 ISBN : 1447404335 9781447404330

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‎A Tale of Two Cities‎

‎Aerie 1988. paperback VG; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs. Aerie 1988 paperback‎

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‎Dickens Charles Russell Thorndike‎

‎OLIVER TWIST An Adaptation By Russell Thorndike. Illustrated with Scenes from the Cineguild Film Production‎

‎GB: TUCK 1948. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Thus. Paperback. VG/No DW. TUCK Paperback‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Pictures from Italy The Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer‎

‎London: Published for the author By Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars. Very Good-. 1846. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4 p.l. 270 & 2 pages; First edition bound in a full deep tan morocco leather art binding four raised bands on the spine decorative stamping in blind on the spine and covers with the initials "MWY" stamped within a decorative diamond-shaped lozenge constructed of decorative tools in blind on the front cover and the date: "1924" stamped in the center of a matching lozenge on the rear cover. An interesting copy certainly a first edition in a handsome albeit worn binding which is more to the neo Georgian than the Victorian taste. There are hand-marbled endapers with paste-downs framed by extra-wide inner dentilles with decorative ruling in blind and round tools in the corners. The marbled endpapers are clearly not commercial but were likely made by the binder who has not signed this interesting binding -- unless the initials at the center of the front cover belong to the binder who may or may not have been the owner of this copy. There are broad and real headbands in alternating shades of white and red; all edges of the leaves are gilt. The binder has retained the original spine from the publisher's cloth binding -- now mounted to a sheet at the rear of the volume. Alas there is some wear now to this binding with cracking along the front outer hinge the board is still soundly attached on the cords a small chip at thecap and a longer chip at the bottom of the spine are now missing exposing a portion of each headband. There is rubbng to the edges of the raised bands the edges of the boards and the corners. But in all this remains an interesting and handsome binding in the craftsman style of the early years of the twentieth century. The copy is an example of the first edition retaining the half title and the ad leaf preceding it as well as the two pages of ads at the rear. Bibliographical understanding of the complex printing history of the issues of the two printings of this 1846 Dickens first edition have evolved since the 1911 publication of Eckel and even Smith and the Gimbel Collection catalogue from Yale seventy years later. The following are the points of issue of this copy: on the title page there is a comma after �Wood� in the fourth line of text; there is a full-stop tiny period after the printer�s imprint on p.270; the drop-head decorative title to the first page of text is set entirely in Black Letter; on p.271 in the advertisement for �The Cricket on the Hearth� the last line reads: �Twentieth Edition. In Foolscap 8vo price 5s.� Further on page 244 line 8 the �e� of the first �the� is printed too heavily and also slightly clogged but not battered by wear. It appears that this letter "e" becomes progressively battered during the printing run of this volume. If a prospective buyer knows of other points we will gladly respond to inquiries. . Published for the author, By Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars hardcover‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Oliver Twist‎

‎Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. Very Good. 1851. Hardcover. 212 pages; Contemporary black half leather over marbled boards flat spine "paneled" with pairs of gilt rules title stamped in gilt in the second panel. Sound but somewhat rubbed particularly at the spine ends and lower corners. With a remarkable provenance. There is a circular stamp impressed in blind on the verso of the front free-endpaper: "Thos. C. Acton New York" This is confirmed by a pencil signature at the head of the Introduction p. iii -- "1/2 Blue / T. C. Acton." The owner was Thomas Coxon Acton 1823-1898 -- public servant politician reformer Treasury official banker police commissioner of the New York City Police Department and the first appointed president of its Board of Police Commissioners. In 1863 he and Commissioner John G. Bergen took control of the police force during the New York Draft Riots after police superintendent John A. Kennedy was nearly beaten to death by the mob early on the first day of the riots. Action assumed direction of police and military force against rioters in Manhattan where most of the violence was centered including the shameful burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue. The New York Times whose Manhattan offices were saved from destruction during those tumultuous four days only by Gattling guns wielded by staffers including including Times founder Henry Jarvis Raymond -- summed up Acton's life with this headline for his obituary: "Thomas C. Acton Is Dead; He Expired at His Home in Saybrook Conn. After a Long Illness. Made History In This City He Stopped the Draft Riots Here During the War -- An Abolitionist in Earlier Days and Helped Form the Republican Party". New York Times. 2 May 1898. The phrase "signed by Thomas C. Acton" will raise the heart rate of any collectors of rare American currency notes who might read this description. One of the most sought after notes ever issued by the US Treasury is the so-called "Triple Signature" 1882 US20 Gold Certificate. Some early examples of these notes were countersigned in ink by then-Assistant U.S. Treasurer Thomas C. Acton; perhaps this duty became burdensome since Acton's signature was subsequently engraved on the plates used to print the colorful currency. Hand signed examples by Acton are described as Friedberg 1175; the notes with the printed signature of Thomas C. Acton are designated Friedberg 1175a. For the record the other two printed signatures are those of Blanche K. Bruce as Register of the Treasury and James Gilfillan as Treasurer of the U.S. Either of the Acton notes is rare. Currently only two examples of the Fr. 1175 issue hand signed by Acton are known -- one of the pair sold at auction in 2007 for US546250; twenty seven survivors are recorded of the Fr. 1175a notes signed by Thomas C. Acton in the plate -- one sold in 2007 for a mere US138000. Thomas Acton resigned from the Treasury to found the Bank of New Amsterdam. He occupied many government positions during his later political career as well as becoming a noted social activist and reformer -- along with Marshall B. Blake and Fred A. Conkling Acton was a founder of the Republican Party in New York. Action also was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children. And working against many powerful opposing individuals and groups Acton was instrumental in the founding of the modern New York City Fire Department which replaced the old volunteer firefighter service. some of those private companies had joined with the Draft Riot mobs. In his early years as President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners Thomas C. Acton had another brush with the history of his times. The NY Times for 6 June 1866 published a short notice of an arrest which Acton was called upon to review. "Yesterday some excitement was created in Canal-street near Broadway by an Eighth Precinct Policeman arresting a lady who had just come out of a milliner's store. The lady wore a long coat or robe and a pair of cloth pants and the guardian of the public peace imagining that there was something wrong about this and that a lady ought not to be allowed to dress as she pleases undertook to arrest her." The arrested lady was Dr. Mary Edward Walker the second woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States who became a Civil War surgeon and perhaps spy. and who had adopted the bold reforms to female attire championed by Elizabeth Libby Miller and Amelia Jenks Bloomer. Dr. Mary Walker refused to tell the patrolman where she lived and he requested that she accompany him back to the Police station where Dr. Walker refused to give her name to the sergeant in charge as she had been detained for no lawful reason. When jail time was pressed as her next alternative she invited the officer to read her name from the gold medal she worn pinned to her coat. This was the Medal of Honor issued by President Johnson for her Civil War service. Mary Walker remains the only woman to whom a United States Medal of Honor has been awarded! -- she reportedly wore hers every day until her death in 1919. Dr. Walker's case came up before Police Commissioner Thomas C. Acton a few days later. The patrolman's attourney suggested that she had been arrested since it was a crime for women to wear men's clothing. Acton to his credit rejected this dubious assertion of law. He is recorded addressing Dr. Walker -- "I consider Madam that you have as good a right to wear that clothing as I have to wear mine and he the police patrolman has no more right to arrest you for it than he has me." Acton then addressed the policeman: "Let her go she can take care of herself. Never arrest her again." For the record Acton's order was not perpetually followed; one biographer counts nine arrests of Mary Edwards Walker over her choice of attire but no one doubts Acton's assertion that "she could take care of herself." Dr. Walker seemed to take pleasure in controversy as a pioneer of women's rights. She also attempted to register to vote run for Congress etc. She was elected president of the National Dress Reform Association in the year she came before Thomas C. Acton - 1866.; Signed by Notable Personage Unrelated . Blanchard and Lea hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 40730 ISBN : 2736708482 9782736708481

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Dealings with the Firm of DOMBEY AND SON Wholesale Retail and for Export‎

‎New York: Wiley and Putnam. Very Good-. 1846 1848. First American Edition. Hardcover. 939 pages; The first American edition bound from the original parts for their first owner in two half calf volumes over marbled boards. The flat spines in tan calf are "paneled" with simple pairs of gilt rules and the title is directly stamped in gilt in each second panel. The bindings are rubbed and worn with cracking to the leather at the rear hinge of volume I and a piece of leather is now missing at the top of that spine -- the rear board is holding on its cords. Toning and a few stains scattered throughout the text. Prelims & 939 pp. 34 plates only usually sets of the parts are found with two plates bound with each of the final 18 parts for a total of 36. There are signatures of J. H. Edmonds the Utica New York lawyer in ink dated 1848 on each front paste-down endpaper. In addition there are pencil signatures and notations recording Mr. Edmonds' intention to bind his set; these notes appear on the half title the 1846 title page used in the second volume and on the blank recto of the famous "dark" plate near the end. The inscription on the "dark" plate is the most specific: "1/2 Light / Calf / J. H. Edmonds Esq -- the final two letters have been trimmed off by the binder Edmonds commissioned but Mr. Edmonds did use this form of signature in signing the 1846 title page. For volume I the binder has used the half title "Library of / Choice Reading / rule Dombey and Son" -- and the title page issued with the final part double number 19/20: using the abreviated title "Dombey and Son" and the imprint "New York: / John Wiley / of the Late Firm of "Wiley and Putnam" / 161 Broadway / 1848." This is followed by the dedication leaf the author's two-paragraph preface and two leaves containg Tables of Contents for volume I and also Volume II. The page numbers for the list of Contents for Volume II assume a pagination for that volume set back to page 1 but the pagination of these sheets bound from the parts issue are continuously paginated so that this second volume has pages numbered "487" to "939." The text for this American parts edition was set and printed as soon as the English parts London : Bradbury & Evans 1846-48 arrived and without waiting for the accompanying plates to be engraved. Consequently each of the original parts wrappers none are preserved in this bound set alas bore the note "The illustrations for this number will be given with the next." There were no plates issued with the first part from Wiley and Putnam and two plates in each of the next 18 parts. Evidently a final pair of plates was meant to be available to purchasers by request through the booksellers but these final two plates are now quite rare. The American plates were copies made as engravings on wood by J.W. Orr done from the original designs by Hablot. Knight. Browne known as "Phiz." These are technically remarkable and convey an excellent sense of the originals even with a convincing version of the "dark" plate. Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called "dark plate" created in the Browne original by use of a machine process involving a lining machine and roulettes that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The single dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road" bound here between pp. 865 & 867. To quote from Smith's bibliography of Dickens in cloth about the British original: "The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process." The version engraved on wood by John William Orr is a brilliant re-creation using a seemingly inappropriate medium -- and is surprizingly effective. It seems appropriate that J. H. Edmonds chose to mark this plate with his name and instructions to the binder making it less likely that this plate would be lost in the transfer to hard covers.The two plates issued with these Wiley and Putnam parts which did not make it into this volume were: "Major Bagstock is delighted to have that opportunity;" and "Mr. Toots Becomes Particular � Diogenes Also." There is no evidence of removal; evidently they were lost from this set of parts before their owner had them bound in 1848. Also as usual the final two plates which were announced as available to purchasers of the parts after the conclusion of the issue are not present here. No wrappers have been retained; this too is the usual state of affairs for these bound-from-parts sets. See OCLC Number: 191225906 which states 4 locations but really this should be 3 since the count of 4 includes a couple of spare parts at AAS in addition to their splendid complete set. Podeschi Yale Dickens A104; Wilkins Dickens p. 25. The owner of the parts who commissioned this binding and signed its front free endpapers upon delivery in 1848 -- was John H. Edmonds -- born in Utica New York and a leading lawyer in that city from 1833 until his death in 1881. He was Master in Chancery in the years immediately before the Civil War and was said to have named at least two of Utica's streets: "Howard" and "Leeds." More biographical details can be found in 'Memorial History of Utica N.Y.: From Its Settlement to the Present Time' - edited by Moses Mears Bagg; see page 215. . Wiley and Putnam hardcover‎

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‎One Pair of Feet‎

‎London Michael Joseph 1952. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. London, Michael Joseph, 1952 unknown‎

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