‎Dickens charles‎

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 12503

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "A Little Talk about Spring and the Sweeps.‎

‎1836. In: THE LIBRARY OF FICTION or Family Story Teller; consisting of Original Tales Essays and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations in each volume. Vol. I & II. London: Chapman and Hall 1836/1837. Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. First Edition in book form. Chapman & Hall's monthly fiction periodical "The Library of Fiction" began in April 1836 starting right off in that issue with the sketch "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" by a writer using the pseudonym "Boz." The third June issue included another "A Little Talk about Spring and the Sweeps." When the Second Series of SKETCHES BY BOZ was published in December 1836 the latter tale was included re-titled "The First of May"; "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" was the only one of Dickens's periodical sketches that did not appear in either volume of SKETCHES BY BOZ -- but it was added when SKETCHES BY BOZ was subsequently issued in serial parts from Nov 1837 through June 1839. These two volumes contain the monthly issues of this new periodical with preliminary leaves added for this book form the second volume issued in 1837 did not have any Dickens contributions but is included here. "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" includes two plates by Seymour and "Spring and the Sweeps" has one by Buss; both illustrators would soon be involved with PICKWICK PAPERS. Other contributors include Edward Mayhew G.P.R. James Douglas Jerrold Mary Russell Mitford and the Countess of Blessington. This set is bound in contemporary half calf with gilt-paneled spine and black leather spine label and marbled paper-covered boards. Condition is very good minor edgewear of the marbled boards small worm-hole in the first few leaves of Vol II dampmark in the margfin of some plates. See Podeschi E121. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 10962

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎LITTLE DORRIT‎

‎1857. Illustrated Edition. Two Volumes Complete in One. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson n.d. 1857. Original half calf with marbled boards endpapers and page edges. First American illustrated octavo edition. The first Peterson volume of LITTLE DORRIT in fact the first in book form anywhere was Vol I of the two-volume duodecimo edition published in November 1856 during serialization; in June 1857 once serialization was complete Peterson quickly published the novel in numerous duodecimo including Vol II of the above and octavo formats. One octavo double-column format consists of 317 pages of text -- issued first without illustrations in wrappers or in cloth and soon thereafter with plates inserted. Another octavo format this one has 376 pages of text with the illustrations integrated into the text some sideways. This copy is in contemporary half calf with marbled boards page edges and endpapers. Peterson advertised that his octavo editions of Dickens were available to buyers in four different bindings of half calf in addition to cloth and we have seen numerous volumes in this exact binding -- leading us to believe that this is a publisher's original binding. Stab-holes are evident in the gutter of all leaves -- possibly indicating that it was originally bound up by Peterson in wrappers then put into his standard half calf. Condition is very good with minor rubbing at the extremities. See Podeschi D25. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 12073

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA‎

‎1860. An Extra Double Number of of All The Year Round. New York: J. M. Emerson & Co. 1860. Original self-wrappers bound in at the rear of the February 1861 monthly issue which has its own pale-yellow printed wrappers. First American Edition "published simultaneously in London and New York " according to the front wrapper -- of the second of the nine extra Christmas numbers of All The Year Round. Dickens actually wrote only the first second and fifth chapters of A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA the remainder having been written by his son-in-law's brother Wilkie Collins. This was the second of the nine extra Christmas number of All The Year Round of which Dickens was the editor. This is the only one of the nine annual numbers to be illustrated -- having on page 5 a woodcut of the actual "message from the sea." This example has the 48-page Extra Christmas Number bound in at the rear of the February 1861 monthly issue which includes the weekly issues of January. Included in those weekly issues are the first two serial parts of GREAT EXPECTATIONS the first of which leads off with the well-known "My father's family name being Pirrip.". Quite scarce -- much scarcer than the London edition. Very good condition wear at the corners. Not in Podeschi Yale -- see E13; see Eckel pp 195. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 12173

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎A ROUND OF STORIES by The Christmas Fire‎

‎1853. New York: Stringer & Townsend 1853. Original greyish-pink printed wrappers. Early first American edition of this the third of Dickens's nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of his weekly periodical Household Words. This came out in London in December 1852 and then was published in America in early 1853 by several publishers McElrath & Lord doing the authorized American issue of HhW plus Harper plus this effort. Dickens himself wrote only the first two stories -- "The Poor Relation's Story" and "The Child's Story." This copy includes the delicate original greyish-pink wrappers and is in very good-plus condition minor edge-wear a few droplet-marks on some leaves within. Podeschi Yale B225. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 12212

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎PICTURES FROM ITALY‎

‎1846. With Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans 1846. 2 pp undated preliminary ads plus 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men. His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line. CGEL Smith cites bindings both of fine-diaper cloth and of horizontally-ribbed cloth no priority -- see his Note 3; there are also copies in vertically-ribbed cloth. This copy is in horizontally-ribbed cloth and is in near-fine condition volume slightly aslant front endpaper slightly cracked one small front-cover spot. PICTURES FROM ITALY used to be rather common but attractive copies such as this are becoming increasingly scarce. Smith II pp 44-58. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 11810

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎GREAT EXPECTATIONS. In Three Volumes‎

‎1861. in original cloth Second Edition. London: Chapman and Hall 1861. Original wavy-grain blind-stamped violet cloth with gilt-decorated spines. "Second Edition" so-called on the three title pages technically the second of the five slightly-differing 1861 impressions of the first edition. GREAT EXPECTATIONS was one of the few Dickens novels that did not first appear in monthly serial parts; instead it appeared in 36 weekly numbers of Dickens's periodical All The Year Round. Also GREAT EXPECTATIONS was one of only two Dickens novels not to be illustrated as a first edition the other being HARD TIMES. The five "editions" of this three-decker all have title pages dated 1861; the first with no mention of an "Edition" on the title pages was in the public's hands by July 6th; this "Second" was published on August 5th followed by the "Third" on August 17th the "Fourth" on September 21st and the "Fifth" on October 30th. Although Walter Smith in 1982 stated "these first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale" it has since been shown the 1993 Clarendon Edition analysis by Margaret Cardwell that there are subtle differences among the five issues many of them instances of type slippage. There are only four issue points that involve actual re-setting of the type as opposed to type deterioration see Clarendon p. 493 -- in this "Second Edition" they read "in" on Vol I page 259 line 7 "gto et" on Vol II page 205 line 20 "there's" on Vol III page 173 line 26 and "himself very carefully" on Vol III page 192 lines 11-12. This set is still in the original publisher's wavy-grain violet cloth blind-stamped on the covers and decorated in gilt on the spines; GREAT EXPECTATIONS was published without half-titles and in this set none of the three volumes has an ad catalogue. Condition is good-to-very good: the volumes are unnecessarily re-backed with just a bit of darker cloth peeking through where there is minor wear at some spine ends and with un-original but quite early light-yellow endpapers applied over the original paste-downs; also the top edge is gilded. The Vol III spine gilt is a little brighter than that on Vol II which in turn is not as rubbed as Vol I. An old engraved portrait of Dickens is applied to the Vol I rear paste-down. The actual first issue of GREAT EXPECTATIONS without an "Edition" cited on the title pages is the Holy Grail for Dickens collectors since it is virtually impossible to find in fine condition in original cloth most copies having gone directly from the publisher to Mudie's Select Library where they were rented out fortnightly. The first issue fine in original cloth now brings more than $100000 when such a copy surfaces seldom; even rebound it is a major investment. Thus these subsequent "editions" in the same binding and bearing the same date as the first are greatly sought-after for the majority of us seeking the primary format without such a cost. Smith I pp 99-104. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 14553

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Bleak House In the Original Monthly parts Jean Hersholt's Copy‎

‎London: March 1852 - September 1853: Bradbury and Evans. First Ediiton. Original Wrappers. H. K. Browne. Octavo. In the original monthly parts; 20 parts in 19; original blue-green printed wrappers; illustrated with 40 plates by Phiz Hablot K. Browne. ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present except for the scarce "Grace Aguilar's Works" ad in parts XIII and XVI and the "New Geographical and Educational Works" ad in part XIV. FIRST ISSUE OF THE TEXT uncorrected thus: in part I page 19 line 6 with "elgble" - part VII page 209 line 23 with "chair" - part IX page 275 line 22 with "counsinship." i-viiviii-xxixii-xivxvxvi 12-624. Spines expertly renewed on some parts. Light soiling to a few wrappers. Neat subscriber's name to margin of part XIX/XX. Tissue guards are in place. The plates of parts VIII IX and XII are lightly tanned at edges not affecting illustrations. Two of the ten dark plates have light off-setting onto the adjacent plate; all other plates are very good to fine. Part X is unopened therefore unread. Altogether an outstanding set and with a pedigree - it is from the famed Thomas Hatton & Cleaver collection. Housed in a handsome full leather clamshell box with expert repair to front hinge. Provenance: The Library of Jean Hersholt with his signed bookplate inside of slipcase. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 275-304. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

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