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WISE Thomas James. DICKENS Charles.
To Be Read at Dusk.
London: 1852 i.e. 1891. Estelle Doheny copy Octavo 20 pp 223 x 145 mm. Early 20th-century brown calf by Zaehnsdorf black morocco label triple gilt fillet to covers gilt turn-ins grey endpapers top edge gilt. Housed in a red cloth chemise within red quarter morocco slipcase spine lettered in gilt brown cloth sides. Binding lightly rubbed front joint with minute splits at ends some pages opened ever so slightly roughly. A very good copy. The Estelle Doheny copy of this Thomas James Wise forgery. Wise 1859-1937 the most prominent bibliographer of his day funded his bibliophilia and fuelled his vanity by forging 19th-century literary publications taking a known text and producing non-existent "privately printed" editions in pamphlet form which he sold to wealthy book collectors - in this instance Dickens's To Be Read at Dusk first printed in The Keepsake in 1852 here purportedly issued by Dickens in a pamphlet of ten leaves. Carter and Pollard revealed the forgery as part of their 1934 exposé of Wise An Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets - "the analysis of the paper showed that it composed of esparto and straw: as esparto was not introduced into the manufacture of paper until 1861 nine years after the date on which the pamphlet was supposed to be printed there can be no doubt that it is a forgery" pp. 185-187. The early owners of the volume were unfortunate victims commissioning an attractive Zaehnsdorf binding and slipcase to dress the volume; an old tipped-in catalogue description continues the attribution as the original privately-printed version. It entered the collection of the American popular novelist and playwright George Barr McCutcheon 1866-1928 with his bookplate to front pastedown and sold at his sale American Art Association April 21 1926 lot 126 entering then or soon after into the collection of the American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny 1856-1935 thence with the rest of Edward's library coming into possession of his second wife Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny 1875-1958 with her red morocco gilt label to front free endpaper; Estelle bequeathed the collection to St. John's Seminary in Camarillo California which opted to sell the collection to raise revenue in the celebrated Doheny sale where this book was sold Christie's New York 17-18 October 1988 lot 1239. Afterwards in the Lawrence Drizen collection of Charles Dickens his sale Sotheby's 24 September 2019 lot 157. Carter and Pollard pp. 185-187. Ashley Library II p. 40. London: hardcover
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DICKENS Charles. WIGGIN Kate Douglas.
A Child's Journey with Dickens.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1912. Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards front cover lettered in green. Extremities lightly bumped a little rubbed. A very good copy. First edition first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Barent Landstreet gives this book and I did nothing but write it! I was the child and this was my first journey into the great world outside my little New England village. Kate Douglas Wiggin". Wiggin 1856-1923 was an American educator and author of children's stories most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She met Dickens on a train journey in the United States during March 1868 this being her account of the journey. Gimbel H479. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Strange Gentleman;
London: Chapman and Hall 1837 i.e. 1871. Octavo 190 x 127 mm. Early 20th-century brown morocco by Tout spine lettered in gilt marbled sides and endpapers gilt edges. Frontispiece drawn and engraved by Pailthorpe present in duplicate in this copy one hand-coloured. Lightly rubbed. A very good copy. Facsimile of the 1837 first edition of the first of Dickens's plays to be performed in its original "the scarcest and costliest of all Dickens pamphlets" Eckel. Eckel p. 154 mentioning this facsimile edition. London: Chapman and Hall, unknown
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DICKENS Charles.
Hard Times.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. Small octavo 189 x 121. Recent brown half morocco spine lettered in gilt marbled sides. Some light creasing to pages and finger-soiling. A good copy in a sturdy binding. First edition in book form following serialisation in Household Words April - November 1854. Hard Times was the shortest but also arguably the most political of Dickens's novels as well as being the only novel set entirely outside of London. Smith 11. London: Bradbury & Evans, unknown
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DICKENS Charles. PODESCHI John B.
Dickens and Dickensiana.
New Haven: Yale University Library 1980. Octavo. Original green cloth printed paper label to spine. Lightly rubbed at extremities label peeling a little pencilled annotations to text else very good. First edition first printing of the catalogue of the Gimbel Dickens collection a significant reference guide for Dickens's works. New Haven: Yale University Library, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
A Child's History of England.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1852-4 i.e. 1851-3. In the original cloth 3 volumes large sextodecimo. Original reddish-brown cloth gilt titles and decoration to spines blind stamped border and gilt pictorial decoration to front covers marbled endpapers and edges. Each volume with the half titles and engraved frontispieces by F. W. Topham. Contemporary ownership signature to half-title of vol. I. Loss at head of spine of vol. I front hinges just starting some light foxing to contents. A fresh set cloth bright. First editions in book form first issues with the advertisements at the ends of each volume with the relevant points. Dickens's history of England for children "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" ODNB originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853 with the volumes published in book-form in the December of those years post-dated to the following years. In style subject and composition the book differed from all Dickens's other works. Eckel p. 128; Smith II 10. London: Bradbury & Evans, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Library of Fiction
London: Chapman and Hall 1836-1837. With early Dickens stories 2 volumes octavo. Original dark green diced cloth secondary bindings - the primary binding in black and blue cloth respectively rebacked spines lettered in gilt. Housed in red cloth chemises within red morocco bookform box spines lettered in gilt. 28 plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" R. Seymour R.W. Buss and others. Refurbished with expert repair to bindings and hinges some spotting and browning. Very good copies. First editions in book form the first volume containing two early pieces by Dickens as Boz - "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "A Little Talk About Spring and the Sweeps". Both were collected in Sketches by Boz published later in the same year. The second volume completing the publication does not contain any work by Dickens but contains illustrations by his illustrators Phiz Seymour and Buss. Eckel pp. 137-39; Gimbel E122. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Life of Our Lord
London: Associated Newspapers Ltd. 1934. Octavo. Original cloth. In the original sealed and unopened mailing carton. Portrait frontispiece and 8 illustrations. In fine condition. First edition in book form trade issue unopened in the sealed mailing carton as issued. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849 and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" see Letters Vol. IX Oxford 1997 p. 557. It was not intended for publication and the original manuscript was left to Georgina Hogarth and then to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens the author's last surviving son. Sir Henry's will allowed publication "if the majority of his family were in favour". It was eventually published in serial form in the Daily Mail newspaper starting in March 1934 before the present book-form edition in this trade issue a deluxe quarto issue printed on japon and a limited edition. Smith II 12. London: Associated Newspapers Ltd., hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Life of Our Lord
London: Associated Newspapers Ltd. 1934. Quarto. Original blue skiver spine and front cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 11 illustrations of which 8 are reproductions of paintings and 3 are facsimiles of Dickens's manuscript. A fine copy in the jacket with exceedingly light creasing at extremities else fine. First edition in book form first impression in the scarce publisher's deluxe leather binding with the dust jacket printed on japon. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849 and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" see Letters Vol. IX Oxford 1997 p. 557. It was not intended for publication and the original manuscript was left to Georgina Hogarth and then to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens the author's last surviving son. Sir Henry's will allowed publication "if the majority of his family were in favour". It was eventually published in serial form in the Daily Mail newspaper starting in March 1934 before the present book-form edition. With a publisher's advertisement loosely inserted. Smith II 12. London: Associated Newspapers Ltd., hardcover
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DICKENS Charles. FIELD Kate.
Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings.
Boston: Loring 1868. Octavo. Original printed brown wrappers rebacked. Blind and ink stamps including discard of Boston Public Library to wrapper and title page a little worn title loosening toned. A good copy. New and enlarged edition inscribed by the author on the front wrapper "with the regards of K.F. Newport Aug 29 1868" together with the author's corrections on twenty pages. Kate Field 1838-96 was a writer journalist actress and lecturer. Dickens wrote to her on 3 January 1868 stating "I must avow that nothing in the pretty basket of flowers was quite so interesting to me as a certain bright fresh face I have seen at my Readings which I am told you may see too when you look in the glass." Letters Vol. XII 2002 p. 1. The present volume first published earlier that year was based on her newspaper reports of Dickens's readings. Boston: Loring, unknown
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DICKENS Charles.
Pictures from Italy.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt covers and spine decoratively blocked in blind yellow endpapers. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box red morocco label. Wood-engraved title page vignette and three other vignettes by Samuel Palmer. Peeling bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. A couple of patches of trivial wear around joint ends light rubbing to spine lettering contents clean with light creasing to a few page extremities. A near-fine bright copy. First edition of Dickens's second travel book based on the travel letters he published in the Daily News 21 January-11 March 1846 describing his journey through France and sojourn in Italy in 1844-45. While preparing the book for the press he hit a snag: "Clarkson Stanfield had agreed to illustrate the text for Dickens but when he read those passages of the narrative in which Dickens satirises the excesses of Catholic devotion he resigned from the project. Stanfield was himself a prominent English Catholic after all as Dickens knew and he could scarcely be connected with a publication which treats his Church's ritual as little more than a parade of mummers. As usual Dickens went at once into action in order to find a substitute; fortunately and curiously he chose a young artist who then had no real reputation Samuel Palmer whose wonderful illustrations are not the least of the merits of Pictures from Italy in its final state" Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990 pp. 491-92. The "young" Palmer was in fact 41 at the time and had travelled to Italy with his wife in late 1837. Eckel p.126; Smith II 7. London: Bradbury & Evans, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Dombey and Son.
London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. Original cloth Demy octavo. Original green cloth secondary spine lettered in gilt spine and covers with elaborate design in blind cream endpapers. With 40 plates by Phiz; plate 35 being the first published example of a "dark plate". Booklabel John K. Bindloss Annesdale Eccles and bookseller's embossed stamp Hale & Roworth Manchester to front free endpaper. Spine recoloured hinges just starting some light browning and offsetting to plates. A very good copy. First edition in book form following publication in serial form from September 1846 to March 1848 of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" ODNB. The cloth is a secondary binding - for all the Dickens titles the publishers retained first edition sheets and bound them up over the years as demand required. In this instance the design of the cloth matches that of the primary cloth of Bleak House published in 1853 determining it was bound then or thereafter either to match the design of Dickens's more recent novels or else simply reflecting that designs had changed. At any rate Dombey in this secondary binding is much scarcer than in the primary binding which itself is by no means common. Smith I 8. Lars Kremers "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens 1837-1872" 2013 pp. 210-211. London: Bradbury and Evans, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Sunday Under Three Heads.
London: Chapman and Hall 1836. Dickens defends the poor man's right to a free sabbath Small octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in black rebacked. Housed in a blue cloth chemise within blue morocco slipcase spine lettered in gilt. With 3 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne who also designed the heads on the front cover and title page. Further light repairs to wrappers contents with light creasing slight stain to top right corner throughout. A very good copy. First edition of the young Dickens' pseudonymous political pamphlet defending the right of the poor man to a free Sabbath in opposition to a proposed law put forward by Andrew Agnew 7th Baronet Agnew of Lochnaw prohibiting all work and all recreation on a Sunday. Provenance: Richard Manney book-label to chemise sale of his library at Sotheby's New York 11 October 1991 lot 77; the Lawrence Drizen collection of Charles Dickens Sotheby's 24 September 2019 lot 4. Eckel p. 102; Gimbel B30. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Village Coquettes: A Comic Opera.
London: Richard Bentey 1836. Dickens rarity in original unsewn sheets Octavo. Original unbound and unsewn sheets five signatures. Preserved in card folder inside custom green velvet-lined red morocco gilt box upper lid of box detached the box preserved for protective reasons only. Light foxing and toning minor chipping at peripheries. First edition of Dickens's comic opera in the original sheets never bound or sewn. The Village Coquettes opened on 6 December 1836. "The quaint humour unaffected pathos and graceful lyrics of this production found prompt recognition and the piece enjoyed a prosperous run" George Sala Speeches Letters and Sayings of Charles Dickens p. 10. Eckel p 158; Gimbel A25. London: Richard Bentey, unknown
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DICKENS Charles. CLARKE Joseph Clayton.
Afterwards.
London: Jarndyce 1993. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Facsimile of original manuscript 2 plates. Very light creasing and soiling to wrappers else in near-fine condition. First edition number 249 of 250 copies. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol. Together with: Sawyer Richard. "Kyd". a preliminary study of his life and work. London: Chas J. Sawyer 1980. First edition. London: Jarndyce, unknown
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DICKENS Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall 1837. The scarce two-volume issue 2 volumes octavo 214 x 129 mm. Contemporary purple half calf neatly recased and refurbished twin green calf labels to spines gilt to compartments marbled sides endpapers and edges. Etched vignette title page frontispiece and 41 plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. Ownership inscription of J. J. Preston 14 January 1838 to front free endpapers; 19th-century bookplate of J. J. Jermy to front pastedowns. Spines sunned to brown a little rubbed plates browned 5 cm closed tear to plate facing p. 233 chip to pp. 343/344 without loss. A very good copy. First edition bound from the original parts the scarcer two-volume issue of the novel that transformed the obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months. The novel was first published in serial form from March 1836 to November 1837. This copy has the earlier issue "Veller" on the engraved title page and mixed plate/textual issue points. Upon the completion of the serial form of the novel the final part included an advertisement informing the public that: "For the accommodation of subscribers who wish to bind the work in two volumes a title page for a second volume has been printed which may be had on application at the Publishers". Owners of the parts could thus have the book bound into two volumes each with a separate title the first volume also having a new title page with "volume I" issued for ease of reading and to split up the bulky book. However the clear majority of individuals binding up the parts did not do this and instead bound the book in one volume; even when bound into two the owners often did not obtain the additional title pages with the volume numbers. Copies in two volumes with the title pages noting volume numbers are consequently far less common than one-volume copies. Hatton and Cleaver p. 1; Smith I.3. See Lars Kremers "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens 1837-1872" PhD thesis Curtin University November 2013. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836-1837. Original boards 5 volumes duodecimo. Uncut in the original pink quarter cloth and boards printed paper labels. Housed in custom red folding chemises within red cloth solander box. Incomplete: part III lacking pp. 105-108 part IV lacking pp. 201-204. Early pencil and ink ownership inscription to front endpapers bookseller's label to part I. Hinges weak or cracked boards slightly discoloured spines faded and slightly chipped at head and foot labels slightly rubbed and chipped with some loss of text contents foxed part II with flaw at fore-edge p. 101 and pp. 139-146 loose. A somewhat defective but entirely unsophisticated copy in the rare original boards which are overall in a very good state of preservation. First US editions first states. Parts 1 to 4 appearing between 5 November 1836 and 20 September 1837 precede the first book edition in London which was published by Chapman and Hall on 17 November 1837. The fifth part of the American edition appeared on 29 December. Part I is particularly scarce in first state being issued in only 1500 copies as the author was entirely unknown and reissued as sales increased of the later parts. The edition was a piracy part of a number of publications by American firms of British authors taking advantage of the lack of international copyright agreements. Henry Charles Carey did offer the author £25 for the parts of Pickwick which they had already printed in June 1837 but Dickens declined on principle instead only requesting a copy of the edition. Smith First American Editions 2; Gimbel A19. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Pic Nic Papers.
London: Henry Colburn 1841. The copy of Thomas Hatton 3 volumes octavo. Original green cloth spines lettered in gilt covers panelled in blind light yellow endpapers. Engraved frontispiece to each volume and 11 plates by George Cruikshank H. K. Browne "Phiz" and R.J. Hammerton. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of vol. II early sketch of Dickens characters loosely inserted into vol. II. Spines a little sunned and nicked at ends cloth of vol. II slightly discoloured hinges of vol. I a little weak with frontispiece loosening at foot some leaves unopened some plates a little browned. A very good copy. First edition the copy of Dickens's bibliographer Thomas Hatton with his bookplate to the front pastedowns. This is a later issue without the incorrect "publisher young" on p. 3 of the introduction and with Palmer as the printer of both volumes. Charles Dickens edited the first two volumes of the work and wrote the introduction as well as The Lamplighter's Story. Proceeds from the sale of the work went to the widow of Dickens' first publisher John Macrone who had died penniless. Eckel pp.143-5; Gimbel B109; Sadleir 703. London: Henry Colburn, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Library of Fiction
London: Chapman and Hall 1836. Octavo. Original dark green diced cloth spine lettered in gilt. 14 plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" R. Seymour R.W. Buss and others. Booklabel of Anne and F. G. Renier to front pastedown. Recased. Hinges split some spotting and browning to contents. A very good copy. First edition in book form first issue 1836 on title page contains two pieces by Dickens as Boz - "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "A Little Talk About Spring and the Sweeps". Both were collected in Sketches by Boz published later in the same year. Although the first volume of The Library of Fiction was followed by a second volume published in 1837 all of Dickens's contributions were present in the first volume. Eckel pp. 137-39; Gimbel E122. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Sketches by "Boz" illustrative of every-day life and every day people.
London: John Macrone 1836 . Original cloth 2 volumes octavo. Original green cloth spines blocked and lettered in gilt cream endpapers. With 16 engraved plates by Cruikshank including frontispieces. Early ownership signature to title page. The copy has been read with consequent lean to spines and shaking some pages opened a little crudely in the second volume but is otherwise very well-preserved the cloth unusually bright and without wear. An excellent copy. Second edition of Dickens's first book published six months after the first with a new preface. "The sketches were praised for their humour wit touches of pathos and the 'startling fidelity' of their descriptions of London life" ODNB. Smith I 1; Eckel p.13. London: John Macrone, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree.
London: St Luke's Hospital 1860. Dickens rarity in original wrappers Octavo 20 pp. Original pink wrappers printed in black expertly rebacked. Housed in a custom black solander cloth box printed paper label to spine. Traces of vertical fold otherwise a particularly fine copy. First edition second issue. Together with the original stamped and addressed envelope for the return of donations tipped-in at the end. In this second issue the appeal for funds was emphasized by placing the final paragraph in bold text and it included a stamped and addressed envelope for the return of donations. The sketch was first published in Household Words 17 January 1852 and here published as a pamphlet by the management of St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics as a means of soliciting donations. Eckel p. 188; Gimbel B216. [London: St Luke's Hospital, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles. HATTON Thomas & Arthur H. Cleaver.
A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall 1933. Quarto. Original green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very light bumping and rubbing at extremities. A very good copy. First edition signed limited large-paper issue number 35 of 250 copies signed by both Hatton and Cleaver. An essential reference work for Dickens's publications in parts. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. Octavo. Original red cloth titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers later yellow endpapers gilt edges. Frontispiece engraved title page and 15 illustrations in the text. Very light rubbing to binding extremities; some peripheral creasing to contents crease to pp. 5/6 title page loosening a little at foot. A very good bright copy. First edition. The Haunted Man is the fifth and final Christmas book by Dickens. "As soon as he returned from Broadstairs to London he started work on the Christmas Book he had for so long been contemplating a book about lost time. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is concerned with the power of memory with family life which is destroyed and replaced only by the wretched anxieties of a distinguished but solitary man. the theme itself revolves around Dickens's belief that memory is a softening and chastening power that the recollections of old sufferings and old wrongs can be used to touch the heart and elicit sympathy with the sufferings of others. It has been said that in this autobiographical fragment Dickens is only suppressing his feelings of hurt and jealous rage but it seems more likely that he was actively involved after Fanny's death in the process of transcending them" Ackroyd p. 553. Eckel p. 124; Smith II 9 pp. 68-70. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990. London: Bradbury & Evans, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
A Christmas Carol.
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. Original cloth Duodecimo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorated in blind. Housed in a custom blue half morocco box spine lettered in gilt blue pebbled cloth sides. Frontispiece Mr. Fezziwig's Ball and 3 plates hand-coloured by P.S. Duval after John Leech and 4 woodcut plates after Leech half-title printed in blue title page printed in red and blue. Blindstamp of American Antiquarian Society and their duplicate discard blindstamp to title page. Exceedingly light rubbing to cloth but bright and fresh binding tight and square. A particularly fine copy. Second US edition once widely accepted as the first American appearance of Dickens's classic Christmas tale but that credential since placed by Walter Smith as instead the New York edition published by Harper and Brothers. The New York edition was published on 24th January 1844 while this Carey & Hart edition did not appear until 19th April according to Smith. At any rate a remarkably fresh copy from the early months of the book's appearance in America. Gimbel A80; Walter Smith Charles Dickens A Bibliography of His First American Editions: The Christmas Books and Selected Secondary Works 2019 p. 32. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Dombey and Son.
London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. Original cloth Demy octavo. Original green cloth Smith's primary binding spine lettered in gilt spine and covers with elaborate design in blind cream endpapers. With 40 plates by Phiz; plate 35 being the first published example of a "dark plate". Bookplate of the Warrington wire-manufacturer Thomas Glazebrook Rylands 1818-1900 to front pastedown with his crest in gilt to spine. Spine lightly faded and cockled with short split at head hinges just starting peripheral staining to several plates some foxing and browning to others. A very good copy. First edition in book form following publication in serial form from September 1846 to March 1848 of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" ODNB. Smith I 8. London: Bradbury and Evans, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles. ECKEL John C.
The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values.
London: Chapman & Hall 1913. Quarto. Original quarter vellum spine lettered in gilt brown cloth sides top edge gilt. With the booklabel of Janet Cook Loeb to front pastedown sale slip for Sotheby's 31 March 1977 lot 177 loosely inserted. Vellum lightly soiled corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. First edition signed limited large-paper issue number 21 of 250 copies signed by the author and the publishers. London: Chapman & Hall, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Sketches of Young Gentlemen.
London: Chapman and Hall 1838. Octavo 155 x 98 mm. Early 20th-century red morocco by Tout for Henry Sotheran twin green and brown morocco labels spine gilt to compartments triple gilt rule to covers with gilt cornerpieces gilt turn-ins floral patterned endpapers top edge gilt. Original advertisements bound at rear. Front endpaper loosening a little slight rubbing to joints. A very good copy. First edition Dickens's guide to young ladies of the qualities to look for in a gentleman written against the publication Sketches of Young Ladies issued by Chapman & Hall the previous year. Provenance: booklabel to front pastedown of the industrialist James William Ellsworth 1849-1925; the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library stamp on rear endpaper; the Lawrence Drizen collection of Charles Dickens Sotheby's 24 September 2019 lot 55. Eckel p.104. London: Chapman and Hall, unknown
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DICKENS CHARLES attributed. MOGGRIDGE GEORGE.
Sergeant Bell and his Raree-Show.
London: Thomas Tegg 1839. Sextodecimo 135 x 104 mm. Early 20th-century red morocco by C. J. Sawyer their gilt monogram to rear pastedown spine lettered in gilt gilt turn-ins blue endpapers top edge gilt. Original cloth bound in at rear. Frontispiece and other illustrations within text by Cruikshank and others. Spine lightly darkened with very minor rubbing at extremities. A near-fine copy. First edition. The book was once often accepted to be by Dickens and indeed the binding here states Dickens as the author. However this is a fallacy - Dickens had originally agreed to write this book at the request of the publisher but negotiations were cancelled. As Eckel notes "This is the third of the books illustrated by George Cruikshank with which Dickens' name has been associated. There appears to be absolutely no reason for this connection". The correct attribution is George Moggridge. Even so it is often included in collections of Dickens and of Cruikshank. Eckel pp. 208-209; Gimbel H326-328. London: Thomas Tegg, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles. ECKEL John C.
The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens Their Points and Values.
New York: Maurice Inman Inc. & Maggs Bros 1932. Octavo. Original reddish-brown morocco-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed hinges a little tender. A good copy. Revised and enlarged edition number 42 of 750 copies only. New York: Maurice Inman, Inc. & Maggs Bros hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Travelling Letters.
New York: Wiley and Putnam 1846. Original wrappers 2 parts as issued duodecimo. Original brown printed wrappers. Both housed in custom brown cloth chemise within matching slipcase spine lettered in gilt. Lacking pp.viii - xviii of advertisements two pages supplied in photofacsimile loosely inserted. Some light staining and foxing to text and wrappers. A very good unrestored copy. First US and first separate edition. These sketches of Dickens' travels originally appeared in the London Daily News between 21 January and 11 March 1846 under the same title before being included in Pictures from Italy that year. Gimbel A99. New York: Wiley and Putnam, hardcover
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DICKENS Charles.
Mr. Nightingale's Diary: a Farce. In One Act.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. Sextodecimo. Original brown cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Without the frontispiece present in a very few copies only. Light rubbing at extremities light chip and stain at top hinge of front endpapers. A very good copy. First US edition of this farce commenced by Mark Lemon and completed by Dickens. This the brown cloth variant another in green no priority assigned. In 1851 Dickens promised to write a farce for his recently formed "Company of Strolling Players" founded to support the Guild of Literature and Art but his busy schedule prevented him from completing it. Instead his friend Mark Lemon editor of Punch composed the first draft; Dickens extensively amended the text in rehearsal and it can now be considered as much his own. It was first performed at Devonshire House on 16 May 1851 with the cast including Dickens Lemon and Wilkie Collins. A small number of copies were privately printed for Dickens; this 1877 US edition is the first trade edition and the earliest practicably obtainable given the great scarcity of the privately printed issue. Eckel p.164; Gimbel B215. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138164
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DICKENS Charles.
The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution. Speeches in behalf of the Institution by the late Mr. Charles Dickens President.
London: Wm. Clowes & Sons c.1870. 8pp. pamphlet octavo 180 x 112 mm. Early 20th-century red sheep spine lettered in gilt marbled sides and endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Front joint cracked with cover held by top cord only rubbed wear at extremities book block lightly toned and creased repair to top right corner of title page. An acceptable copy. Second edition reprinting reports of speeches and correspondence dated between 1849 and 1870. Podeschi notes two editions in the Gimbel collection: one printed by Buck and Wootton and another entirely reset printed by Wm Clowes and Sons as here. Provenance: William Glyde Wilkins 1854-1921 bookplate his sale The Anderson Galleries New York 14 February 1922 lot 331; the Lawrence Drizen collection of Charles Dickens Sotheby's 24 September 2019 lot 223. Gimbel D59. London: Wm. Clowes & Sons, unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138161
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DICKENS Charles.
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings; No Thoroughfare; The Cricket on the Hearth.
London: Chapman and Hall W. S. Johnson for Cricket on the Hearth 1863 1867 1845. Together three volumes: two octavos in original blue wrappers and one duodecimo in original plain printed wrappers. Housed together in a felt-lined blue solander box. General light soiling and wear to wrappers some light toning and creasing to contents yet still very good well-preserved copies. First editions of two of Dickens publications as the extra Christmas issue of the magazine All the Year Round: Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings 1863 and No Thoroughfare 1867; offered together with the first edition of the stage adaptation of The Cricket on the Hearth being Albert Smith's adaptation which opened at the Lyceum Theatre on the same day 20 December 1845 as the book was published. Eckel p.196; Gimbel C96. London: Chapman and Hall [W. S. Johnson for Cricket on the Hearth] unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138218
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DICKENS Charles.
Master Humphrey's Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. Original cloth 3 volumes large octavo. Original brown cloth Smith's binding variant spines lettered and decorated in gilt covers blocked in gilt and blind marbled endpapers. Housed in brown cloth slipcase. Printed frontispieces and 194 woodcut illustrations of which 154 are by Browne 19 by Cattermole and 1 by Daniel Maclise. Spines sunned and lightly bumped at ends a little rubbed contents clean. An excellent copy. First edition in book form of what Gordon Ray describes as "the pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic". He goes on to note that Phiz H. K. Browne "is in excellent form" and that George Cattermole's "wonderful clutter of antiquarian or architectural detail is well suited to Dickens's chosen subjects". Master Humphrey was a publishing experiment on Dickens's part unique in his canon of issuing two novels together: The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Eckel p. 67 ff; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 60; Smith I 6. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138246
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DICKENS Charles.
Extraordinary Gazette:
London: Richard Bentley March 1837. 8pp. sewn pamphlet small octavo. Housed in a custom green cloth chemise within green half calf bookform slipcase twin red morocco labels green cloth sides front panel lettered in gilt. Title vignette by Phiz. Lightly foxed but otherwise in excellent condition. First edition thus one of two formats the other larger and in 4 pages of Dickens's supplement to Bentley's Miscellany. Dickens undertook the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany commencing publication in January 1837. For the third issue March Dickens wrote this Extraordinary Gazette veiled as a royal publication promoting Richard Bentley's publishing house and pitching Oliver Twist then being serialized in the magazine. The pamphlet was bound into Bentley's publications as advertisements and possibly issued separately. The title vignette by Phiz is the first caricature of Dickens. Gimbel E33. [London: Richard Bentley, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138158
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DICKENS Charles.
The Poor Traveller:
London: Bradbury and Evans 1858. Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black. Housed in a custom brown solander box. Spine a little chipped slight soiling to wrappers. A very good copy in the original wrappers. First reading edition the rarest of the five reading editions. The reading editions edited by Dickens and sold in uniform green wrappers were sold at bookshops and in large numbers at Dickens' public readings."The scarcity of these books have caused fairly high prices to prevail." Eckel. With the bookplate to the inner box of Oliver Brett 3rd Viscount Esher 1881-1963 son of the Governor of Windsor Castle. Eckel p. 215; Gimbel D31. London: Bradbury and Evans, unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138174
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DICKENS Charles. GALLOWAY Alex Hair.
A Critical Dissertation on some of the Writings of Charles Dickens Esq.
Liverpool: Edward Howell c. 1862. Octavo. Original brown cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Front hinge splitting a little short closed tear to front free endpaper at foot some minor spotting. A very good copy. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Martin Browne Esq with the authors compts". A rare volume untraced in British institutions two copies located on OCLC in New Orleans and New Zealand. Liverpool: Edward Howell, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138179
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DICKENS Charles. ONWHYN Thomas.
12 Illustrations to the Pickwick Club.
London: Albert Jackson 1894. 2 copies in variant states small folio. Loose sheets as issued in original green printed wrappers. Housed together in a red cloth chemise within red cloth slipcase spine lettered in gilt. Each with etched pictorial title-page and 12 plates by Thomas Onwhyn the first copy with the plates coloured by hand the second copy with proof impressions on India paper mounted on card. Very light peripheral creasing else fine copies. First edition thus. Thomas Onwhyn designed 32 illustrations to accompany The Pickwick Papers which were published in 1837. In 1847 Onwhyn began to design a set of 12 etchings to accompany the new cheap edition of Pickwick. However his 1837 illustrations were reissued as lithographs and he abandoned the project. The family sold the etchings to Albert Jackson who reissued them in various formats in 1894 two of these formats present here. It is possible that F. W. Pailthorpe hand-coloured the etchings in the first copy - a pencilled note in the chemise states thus. Gimbel H1130. London: Albert Jackson, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138219
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DICKENS Charles. SMITH Walter E.
Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth.
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop 1982-1983. 2 volumes quarto. Original green cloth spines lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Fine copies in the near-fine jackets very light sunning to spine panels and shelf wear to extremities. First editions first printings of Walter Smith's essential bibliography to the works of Charles Dickens. Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138143
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Dickens Charles
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1979. Very Good /No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". Brown leather hardcover with gold lettering and raised bands on spine gilt design on cover. Clean interior and exterior strong and tight binding. Pages are decorated with gilt. Ribbon for bookmark. Illustrated by John Austen. Easton Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : F49763
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Charles Dickens; Hans Christian Andersen; Clement C. Moore
Old Christmas Tales : 45 Classic Stories and Poems from the Victorian Era and Beyond
Hart Warming Classics 2019. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Hart Warming Classics paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : G4909069186I4N00 ISBN : 4909069186 9784909069184
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Carlo Dickens
Grandi speranze
MILANO: Rizzoli Editori 1955. IED. BROSSURA. BUONO. 011 016. MMM0184 Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli romanzo 012 USATO Rizzoli Editori unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : MMM0184-148D ISBN : 2560722013851 2560722013
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Dickens Charles
A Christmas Carol The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth Barnes & Noble Classics
Sterling Publishing. Used - Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs access codes etc. Sterling Publishing unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 00009827073
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Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son
Creative Media Partners LLC 2010. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Creative Media Partners, LLC paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : G1143316029I3N00 ISBN : 1143316029 9781143316029
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Dickens Charles
A Tale of Two Cities A Bancroft Classic - Vol. 19
Bancroft Books 1972. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Bancroft Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : GB001VG90EEI5N00
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Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens Jack London
Classic Mystery Stories Dover Thrift Editions
Dover Publications. Used - Good. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words a nonprofit job training program for youth empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. Dover Publications unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WAL-J-0f-000794 ISBN : 0486408817 9780486408811
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Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol Young Reading Level 2 Paperback Jan 01 2006 NA
Usborne Export 2006. Paperback. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Usborne Export paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0746070306I2N00 ISBN : 0746070306 9780746070307
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Dickens Charles
The bedside Dickens: An anthology for pleasure;
Spring Books 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Cloth boards in good condition. Tight binding. Lightly foxed top page edge. Clean text block. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Spring Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 722396135
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Enriched Classics Pocket
Washington Square Press Inc.N.Y 2004. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : GB001VF3OUQI5N00
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Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Longman Publishing Group 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Longman Publishing Group paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0582243963I5N00 ISBN : 0582243963 9780582243965
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