London: Cedric Dickens 1980. Boards. Frontis illustrations. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Second edition but first trade edition after the limited edition. Inscribed and signed by Cedric Dickens "at the Dickens Inn London." Sticker from the Dickens Inn pasted to front pastedown. How to get authentically soused with many original recipes for drinks from Dickens's day. Cedric Dickens hardcover books
New York: Larousse 1974. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Bookplate else about fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with the laminate starting to bubble over the spine area. Larousse hardcover books
New York: Pantheon 1981. Boards. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Review copy with slip and publisher's flyer. Upper corners bumped else near fine in dust jacket. Pantheon hardcover books
New York &London: Macmillan Press 1975. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Bookplate pencil inscription else near fine without dust jacket as issued. Macmillan Press hardcover books
Philadelphia: Lippincott 1927. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition U.S. issue bound from British sheets. One plate loose toward the rear tips rubbed spine ends bumped small indentation on spine but a good copy in a price-clipped modestly soiled worn and chipped dust jacket. Lippincott hardcover books
Bloomington: Indiana 1978. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Very good in dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears. The relationship between Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne the illustrator of ten of Dickens's novels. Indiana hardcover books
Berkeley: Bern Porter 1947. Oblong octavo. Boards. Illustrations. First edition. Bit of darkening to endsheets light wear to spine ends else very good in lightly worn dust jacket with a few nicks. Bern Porter hardcover books
Boston: Houghton 1929. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Small scuff to front board else near fine in a soiled rubbed dust jacket with some chipping and several old internal tape repairs. Houghton hardcover books
New York: Howell Soskin 1948. Cloth. First edition. Edited by Trumbull Huntington. Foreword by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Very good in spine-darkened dust jacket with several nicks and short closed tears. Howell, Soskin hardcover books
London: The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House 1935. Volume XXXI Winter 1934/35 Spring Summer and Autumn numbers. Four issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by Walter Dexter. Light wear to a couple of spine ends else a very good set. The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House] unknown books
New York: Howell-Soskin 1946. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Edges a bit tanned else about very good in laminated dust jacket that doesn't really count. Howell-Soskin hardcover books
Np: Marble Arch Productions / Norman Rosemont Productions 1980. 2121 leaves plus lettered revises. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only with revises on pink paper. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Title lettered on spine very good. A final draft of the script for this television adaptation with revises dated as late as mid-July. The production was directed by Jim Goddard and starred Peter Cushing and Nigel Hawthorne. Marble Arch Productions / Norman Rosemont Productions unknown books
London: Chatto & Windus 1883. Gilt cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Foxing early and late scattered light foxing throughout spine faded cover a bit soiled and worn but a good copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
New York: Harcourt 1992. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Translated by Gregory Dowling. Dust jacket art by Edward Gorey. A fine copy in dust jacket. Gathered at an international conference in Rome to resolve the mystery surrounding the Drood case are Lew Archer Father Brown Sherlock Holmes Maigret Phillip Marlowe Hercule Poirot Nero Wolfe and Porfiry Petrovitch. Harcourt hardcover books
Np: Reprinted from ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 1964. 18pp. Printed wrappers. An author's separate with Chaudhry's signed presentation to Norman Holmes Pearson on the front wrapper. Lightly hand smudged soft crease in upper fore- corner else very good. Reprinted from ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS unknown books
New York: Taplinger 1973. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Near fine in spine- sunned dust jacket with a small closed tear to the toe of the spine. Taplinger hardcover books
Ithaca NY: Cornell 1966. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Inscribed by the editor. Bookplate remainder stamp on top edge else very good or better in a price-clipped dust jacket with very light dampstaining to the edges of one flapfold. Cornell hardcover books
Mount Vernon NY: Peter Pauper Press nd. Decorated boards. Illustrated. Ink gift inscription spine darkened else very good in defective slipcase. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
New York: Knopf 1936. Cloth and boards. Plates and photographs. First edition of this Centenary celebration limited to two thousand copies. Slight darkening at edges but a nice copy in dust jacket with light wear and moderate tanning to spine panel. Knopf hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship 1911. Volume VII Numbers 1-12. Twelve issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by B.W. Matz. Apart from the inevitable tanning to the edges a very nice set. Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship] unknown books
London: The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House 1930. Volume XXVI Winter 1929/30 Spring Summer and Autumn numbers. Four issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by Walter Dexter. A very good to near fine set. The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House] unknown books
London: The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House 1931. Volume XXVII Winter 1930/31 Spring Summer and Autumn numbers. Four issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by Walter Dexter. A very good to near fine set. The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House] unknown books
Philadelphia: Lippincott 1970. Cloth and boards. Illustrated. First U.S. edition. Private ownership label and date else very good in dust jacket with damp discoloration to rear panel. Lippincott hardcover books
London: Faber & Faber 1948. Pictorial cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Light offsetting to endsheets else near fine in dust jacket with a couple of small nicks. A nice copy. Faber & Faber hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall 1916. Gilt cloth. Frontis portrait. Second revised edition. Ink ownership inscription erasure from pastedown spine a bit darkened head of spine frayed tips rubbed but a good or better copy. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
New York: The New York Public Library 1956. Cloth. Frontis facsimiles. First edition. One of 500 copies. With a copy of the original prospectus laid in folded once lightly soiled but very good. Bit of soiling to cloth else near fine. The New York Public Library hardcover books
London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. Cloth boards. Frontis map. First edition. A bit cocked spine dull but a good or better copy in spine-darkened soiled dust jacket with wear to the extremities. The author uncovers the details of Dickens's long affair with Ellen Ternan. Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover books
New York: Columbia 1978. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition U.S. issue. Inscribed and signed by the author at a later date. Bookplate else about fine in dust jacket. Columbia hardcover books
Boston: Little Brown 1962. Cloth boards. Second printing. Novel based on events in the life of Dickens. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with one tiny hole. Little, Brown hardcover books
Austin: University of Texas 1968. Gilt cloth. Frontis. New edition expanded. One of 1000 copies. Pastedowns discolored else about fine in dust jacket. University of Texas hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship 1906. Volume II Numbers 1-12. Gilt red cloth. Illustrations. Twelve issues bound up with the original wrappers at the rear. Edited by B.W. Matz. The bound volume contains an extra frontis title-page and an index and list of illustrations. Endsheets darkened cloth lightly worn at extremities and a bit soiled but near very good. Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship hardcover books
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1971. Cloth. First edition. Pencil ownership inscription small stain to fore-edge else very good in used soiled price-clipped dust jacket. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship 1906. Volume II Numbers 1-5 8-11. Nine issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by B.W. Matz. One issue with wrappers nearly detached some old tape mends to corners light soiling to covers but generally good. Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship] unknown books
London: Cassell 1909. Gilt plum cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Light rubbing to extremities else a bright near fine copy. Cassell hardcover books
London: Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship 1905. Volume I Numbers 1-12. Twelve issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by B.W. Matz. Wrapperss chipped on No. 1 covers detached from Nos. 11 and 12 No. 10 has some chipping and two pieces of tape at the spine ends; the other issues good or better with occasional light wear and darkening to the extremities. Chapman & Hall for The Dickens Fellowship] unknown books
London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1887. Contemporary three quarter gilt roan t.e.g. original spine and front panel of the clothbound issue bound in. Extremities worn but a good sound copy. First edition with a catalogue dated December 1887 bound in. An early and uncommon consideration of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by the writer most widely known for his popularizations of astronomy. Gimbel lists two copies neither binding described. GIMBEL H375. W.H. Allen & Co. hardcover books
New York: Scribner 1914. Cloth and boards. Illustrated. Second printing of the first edition. Light soiling to boards else near fine in tattered glassine wrapper enclosed in light dust- soiled publisher's box. Scribner hardcover books
London: Arthur Baker 1951. Gilt cloth. First edition. A volume in The English Novelists series. Offsetting to endsheets spine gilding faded else very good in rather chipped and torn dust jacket. Arthur Baker hardcover books
London: Folio Society 1988. Cloth and boards. Frontis illustrations. Folio Society edition. Compiled and edited by Peter Rowland. Fine in slipcase. Folio Society hardcover books
London: The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House 1932. Volume XXVIII Winter 1931/32 Spring Summer and Autumn numbers. Four issues. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Edited by Walter Dexter. Wrapper of one issue detached light wear to a couple of spines else a very good set. The Dickens Fellowship at the Dickens House] unknown books
New York: New York Public Library/Arno Press 1970. Quarto. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. About fine in dust jacket with one corner clipped and a small closed tear to the base of the spine. New York Public Library/Arno Press hardcover books
London: Gollancz 1964. Cloth. Illustrated. First edition. Copyright statement blacked out for importation else near fine in a price-clipped somewhat worn dust jacket with a couple of small pieces missing and several inner tape repairs. Gollancz hardcover books
London: Adam & Charles Black 1911. Gilt cloth. Frontis plates t.e.g. Second impression. Spine a bit dull but very good or better. Adam & Charles Black hardcover books
New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell 1900. Gilt pictorial cloth t.e.g others untrimmed. Frontis photographs. First edition in this format denoted the "Green Room" edition with accompaniments tied to the 1899 stage adaptation THE ONLY WAY. Corners and spine ends lightly worn else a very good copy. H.M. Caldwell hardcover books