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Dickens Charles
Major Works of Charles Dickens Great Expectations / Hard Times / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Bleak House / A Tale of Two Cities Penguin Clothbound Classics
Penguin. Hardcover. 0141198419 Brand NewVCF . New. Penguin hardcover
书商的参考编号 : DTH-S-9780141198415 ???????? : 0141198419 9780141198415
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Dickens Charles
A Tale of Two Cities Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics. PAPERBACK. 0141439602 BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!VCF . New. Penguin Classics paperback
书商的参考编号 : OTF-S-9780141439600 ???????? : 0141439602 9780141439600
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Dickens Charles
A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary Edition Signet Classics
Signet. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0451530578 BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!VCF . New. Signet paperback
书商的参考编号 : OTF-S-9780451530578 ???????? : 0451530578 9780451530578
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Dickens Charles
Great Expectations Bantam Classics
Bantam Classics. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0553213423 BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!VCF . New. Bantam Classics paperback
书商的参考编号 : OTF-S-9780553213423 ???????? : 0553213423 9780553213423
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Dickens Charles
The Lamplighter
Kessinger Publishing LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support the African Children's Educational Trust A-CET. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Through our work with A-CET we have helped give hundreds of young people in Africa the vital chance to get an education. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Kessinger Publishing, LLC unknown
书商的参考编号 : Z1-W-021-01077 ???????? : 1161467688 9781161467680
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Dickens AG. A. G.
The English Reformation
Schocken Books. 1978. Paperback. UsedVeryGood. Paperback; 6th printing of a 1964 copyright; light fading light shelf wear to exterior; light fade spots to page edges; otherwise in very good condit ion with clean text firm binding. . Schocken Books paperback
书商的参考编号 : 74616
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Dickens Charles
MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
W. B. Conkey Co. Chicago. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Not First Edition. Hardcover. Early reprint ed. No date however a 1912 newspaper article about this title has been laid in the book. Assume it was published 1912 or prior. Book is very good blue cloth with illustrated front board and spine. Age tone to contents starting to front inside paper joint. No jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC ; 8vo; 296 pages . W. B. Conkey Co. Chicago hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 12386
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Dickens Charles
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire 1853
Whitefish MT: Kessinger Publishing. 2009. Trade paperback. Fine. Trade paperback US. Glued binding. 50 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name. Clean tight pages. No previous owner's name. . Kessinger Publishing paperback
书商的参考编号 : Alibris.0036584 ???????? : 1120128560 9781120128560
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Dickens Charles & West Clare
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: David Copperfield: 1800 Headwords Oxford Bookworms ELT
OUP Oxford 12/27/2007. 01. Paperback. Used; Good. WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON UK 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! OUP Oxford paperback
书商的参考编号 : 2187780 ???????? : 0194792196 9780194792196
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RACKHAM Arthur. DICKENS Charles.
A Christmas Carol.
London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Philadelphia 1915. First issue with the dust jacket Octavo. Original green cloth titles and pictorial design to spine and front cover in black pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket printed in green and red. Colour frontispiece mounted on white paper and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Cloth on spine very slightly faded free endpapers foxed half-title and last leaf verso browned else a fine copy in the jacket that is lightly toned with wear to extremities and a small chip mid spine. First Rackham trade edition first issue with the mounted frontispiece and the date printed on the verso of the title page. The bibliographies claim that the frontispiece is mounted on green paper but in our experience it is invariably white. Latimore & Haskell pp. 44-45; Riall p. 124-25. London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 113103
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Dickens Charles
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home
Wildside 2009-07-30. Paperback. New. Over 1000000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping if available for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.BRAND NEW A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations. Wildside paperback
书商的参考编号 : 10544886 ???????? : 1434404102 9781434404107
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Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Chapman & Hall 1901. Hardcover. Used; Good. No dust jacket. Wear to extremities. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #2308092</p> Chapman & Hall hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2308092
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Dickens Charles
A Tale of Two Cities Signet Classics
Signet Classics 1960-02-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Over 1000000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping if available for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.Has heavy shelf wear but still a good reading copy. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations. Signet Classics paperback
书商的参考编号 : 10546265 ???????? : 0451524411 9780451524416
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Dickens Charles
Un Chant De Noel French Edition
Gallimard-Jeunesse. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Gallimard-Jeunesse unknown
书商的参考编号 : GRP92809510 ???????? : 2070519740 9782070519743
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Paperback. As New. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. `My father's family name being Pirrip and my Christian name Philip my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip and came to be called Pip.' An orphan d paperback
书商的参考编号 : ria9780008182274_rkm ???????? : 0008182272 9780008182274
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Dickens Charles
EDWIN DROOD & MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton
GB: Everyman's Library Dent/Dutton 1909. Not dated except introoduction which is dated 1909. Burgundy-red cloth lettered and decorated in gold over whole of spine.Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT slight stain to front cover and gold on spine a little dull. . 1st Thus. Hardback. VG/No DW. Everyman's Library (Dent/Dutton) Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : EveryP 0725.01
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Dover Thrift Editions
Dover Publications 1998-12-31. Paperback. Acceptable. Student Edition. No apparent missing pages. Heavy wrinkling from liquid damage. Heavy wear fading creasing Curling or tears on the cover and spine. May have used stickers or residue. Poor binding causing loose and torn pages. Heavy writing highlighting and marker. Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with used books. Dover Publications paperback
书商的参考编号 : 0486406512-4 ???????? : 0486406512 9780486406510
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Dickens Charles.
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Volume One - 1820-1839.
British Academy - The Pilgrim Edition. Clarendon Press Oxford. 1965. First edition. Edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey. Hardback. Black and White frontis. VG in VG- dust jacket head of DJ spine chipped; with coffee-mug-size stain on front panel. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra. British Academy - The Pilgrim Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1965. First edition. Edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22894
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Dickens Charles.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume Three - 1842-1843.
British Academy - The Pilgrim Edition. Clarendon Press Oxford. 1974. First edition. Edited by Madeline House Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson. Hardback. Black and White frontis. VG in VG- dust jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra. British Academy - The Pilgrim Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1974. First edition. Edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey and hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22892
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Dickens Charles
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo finely bound in Cosway style blue morocco with an oval portrait of Charles Dickens on "ivorene" inset into the front panel spine gilt in compartments all edged gilt light blue watered silk liners. In very good condition. Illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. With many lovers of the author's works David Copperfield ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood Micawber the Pegottys and Mr. Dick. it would be strange if it had been otherwise" Eckel 77. "Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. Bradbury and Evans unknown
书商的参考编号 : 23001
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Dickens Charles.
Miscellaneous Papers from 'The Morning Chronicle' 'The Dialy News' 'The Examiner' 'Household Woirds' 'All the Year Round' and other Sources.
Chapman & Hall London. 1908. From 'The Authentic Edition - The Works of Charles Dickens'. . Hardback. Black and White illustrations. VG without dust jacket. Chapman & Hall, London. 1908. From 'The Authentic Edition - The Works of Charles Dickens'. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22916
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Dickens Monica
Great Fire The Weekly Reader Children's Book Club
Garden City NY: Doubleday. 1973. vg. Hardcover. 64pp; color il'd cover; b/w plates & ils . Doubleday hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 143380
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Dickens Charles
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB
Chapman & Hall 1890. Hardcover. Used; Acceptable. No dust jacket. Volume Two. Undated. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #2269822</p> Chapman & Hall hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2269822
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Dickens Charles.
Dickens to his Oldest Friend - The letters of a lifetime from Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard.
Putnam London & New York. 1932. First edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. Hardback. VG without dust jacket. Putnam, London & New York. 1932. First edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22758
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Dickens Charles.
Speeches - literary and social.
John Camden Hotten. London. 1869. First edition. Hardback. VG- without dust jacket top of spine chipped; inner hinge cracked. John Camden Hotten. London. 1869. First edition. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22762
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Dickens Monica
Dear Doctor Lily
Viking. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Viking unknown
书商的参考编号 : GRP90671972 ???????? : 0670818186 9780670818181
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Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Wordsworth Editions 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. no highlighting or writing in text <br/> <br/> Wordsworth Editions paperback
书商的参考编号 : 000959
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Charles Dickens
Ghost Stories
Hardback. As New. Throughout his illustrious writing career Charles Dickens often turned his hand to fashioning short pieces of ghostly fiction. Even in his first successful work The Pickwick Papers you will find five ghost stories all of which are included in this collection. Dickens began the tradition of 'the hardcover
书商的参考编号 : ria9781509825400_rkm ???????? : 1509825401 9781509825400
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Hardback. As New. One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels Great Expectations tells the story of Pip an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale in which Pip hardcover
书商的参考编号 : ria9781509825363_rkm ???????? : 1509825363 9781509825363
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Charles Dickens Read by Alex Jennings Read by Full Cast Read by Robert Glenister Read by Simon Cadell
Charles Dickens: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Volume Two : Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit & Dombey and Son
CD-Audio. As New. Thrilling full-cast radio dramatisations of three of Charles Dickens' classic novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned novelists of all time and this second volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes the gripping historical novel Barnaby Rudge picaresque comedy Martin Chuzzlewi unknown
书商的参考编号 : ria9781785293832_rkm ???????? : 1785293834 9781785293832
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Charles Dickens
Tale of Two Cities
Hardback. As New. A Tale of Two Cities a story of revolution revenge and sacrifice is one of Charles Dickens' most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Dr Manette wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eig hardcover
书商的参考编号 : ria9781509825387_rkm ???????? : 150982538X 9781509825387
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Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol
Hardback. As New. A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean miserable bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting hardcover
书商的参考编号 : ria9780141369587_rkm ???????? : 0141369582 9780141369587
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DICKENS CHARLES
Oliver Twist
Reader's Digest 1987. Super octavo hardcover 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. Reader's Digest 1987 hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 179717
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DICKENS MONICA
Joy and Josephine
Penguin 1962. 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. Penguin 1962 paperback
书商的参考编号 : 180256
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DICKENS CHARLES & GREEN CHARLES Illus
The Haunted Man: The Pears' Centenary Edition
A & F Pears Ltd nd. Octavo hardcover 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 A & F Pears Ltd (nd) hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 180633
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DICKENS CHARLES & GROOME W. H. C. Illus
Master Humphrey's Clock and Pictures from Italy
Collins n/d. Small duodecimo hardcover 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. Collins (n/d) hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 181370
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DICKENS CHARLES
Reprinted Pieces
Collins n/d. Small duodecimo hardcover 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. Collins (n/d) hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 181371
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DICKENS CHARLES
Dombey and Son
Collins 1954. Octavo faux leather covers 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. Collins 1954 hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 181893
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DICKENS CHARLES & DIXON ARTHUR A. Illus
Our Mutual Friend
Collins nd. Duodecimo faux leather covers 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. Collins (nd) hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 181897
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DICKENS Charles.
A Child's History of England.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1852-4 1851-3. In the original cloth 3 volumes duodecimo. Original red cloth gilt titles and decoration to spine blind stamped border and gilt pictorial decoration to front board marbled endpapers and edges. Each volume with the half titles and engraved frontispieces by F. W. Topham. Spines slightly faded a couple of ink splashes to covers small puncture to spine of Vol. III minor wear to spine ends and tips some pencilled notes and the odd spot of foxing to contents. A very good set. First editions in book form. 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. Smith II 10. London: Bradbury & Evans, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 111255
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DICKENS Charles.
Dombey and Son.
London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. In the original cloth Octavo. Original green fine-diaper cloth covers blocked in blind spine with elaborate design in blind titles to spine gilt yellow endpapers. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title. Ownership signature in ink to front pastedown pencil to front free endpaper bookplate to front pastedown. Spine faded to brown minor wear to tips split to foot of rear joint though still sound odd spot of foxing to text some spotting and oxidisation of plates. A very good copy. First edition bound from the original monthly parts as issued from October 1846 to April 1848 in the publisher's primary cloth binding which was made available to owners of the parts upon the novel's completion matching the binding of the book form edition. Smith I 8. The primary binding was identified by Kremers correcting Smith: see Lars Kremers "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens 1837-1872" 2013 pp. 196-211. London: Bradbury and Evans, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 111303
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DICKENS CHARLES & DIXON A. A. Illus
Great Expectations
Collins n/d. Duodecimo hardcover 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. Collins (n/d) hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 182122
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Charles Dickens
Rollercoasters: Great Expectations
Paperback. As New. Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beaut paperback
书商的参考编号 : ria9780198355342_rkm ???????? : 0198355343 9780198355342
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Dickens Charles:
Bleakhaus.
M�nchen Musarion Verlag 1924. ill. gr�ne OLwd. 302 / 290 / 286 / 260 3 S. Ganzgelbschnitt D�nndruck 8�. Vollst�ndige Ausgabe des vierb�ndigen Romans in einem wundersch�nen D�nndruckband mit reicher R�ckenvergoldung ! leicht besto�en. ANY QUESTIONS Please don�t hesitate to ask for details !! On vacation until July 8.th / Im Urlaub bis 8. Juli 2020! unknown
书商的参考编号 : 10543
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Dickens Charles
A Tale of Two Cities.
Penguin Paperback London 1987 reprint. Good. paperback
书商的参考编号 : l16167
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DICKENS Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall 1844. Octavo 213 x 131 mm. Contemporary black half calf marbled sides titles to spine gilt marbled endpapers and edges. With 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Inkstamp to frontispiece and title page. Spine panel and tips lightly worn boards a little scuffed front hinge split but holding some light toning and spotting to contents. A very good copy. First edition first issue bound from parts with all the issue points listed by Smith. With the £100 title plate not transposed. The transposed plate is often referred to as a first issue point though Hatton and Cleaver long ago dismissed this stating that "It is merely one of the five cases in Chuzzlewit of triplicated steels one of them reading '100£' and the other two '£100'. all three of them in use during the issue in parts." Smith I 7; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 183-212. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 108379
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DICKENS Charles.
Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz."
London: Richard Bentley 1838. Original cloth 3 volumes octavo. Original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth spine in compartments with gilt titles sides each stamped in blind with an arabesque cartouche yellow coated endpapers. Housed in a blue calf book-form folding case back gilt with red and green morocco lettering panels unsigned but apparently by Bayntun joints rubbed. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank including the "Fireside" plate facing p. 313 in vol. III. Half-titles to Vols. I and II as issued; initial advert leaf to Vol. III. A few marks to cloth some oxidisation to plates occasional slight spotting inner hinges sound a very good copy in unrestored original cloth. First edition first issue with Boz title pages and the "Fireside" plate. Bentley rushed Oliver Twist out in book form before serialization was complete forcing Cruikshank to hurry the last few plates. Dickens disliked the final "Fireside" plate and asked Cruikshank for a new design the "Church" plate. He also decided that he no longer wished to be styled "Boz". The first issue as here was published on 9 November; the second with cancel titles omitting the sub-title and giving Dickens's name as the author and with the "Church" plate at the end was issued on 16 November. Smith 4. London: Richard Bentley, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 108107
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DICKENS Charles.
The Works.
London: Chapman and Hall c.1890. The Library edition handsomely bound 30 volumes octavo 190 x 122 mm. Contemporary dark red half morocco raised bands titles and decorations to compartments gilt marbled sides edges and endpapers. Illustrated throughout by amongst others Robert Seymour George Cruikshank Hablot Knight Browne Phiz George Cattermole John Leech. Spines slightly sunned boards a touch rubbed light wear to extremities light spotting to prelims and endmatters. An excellent set. A handsomely bound set of the Library Edition of Dickens's collected works. London: Chapman and Hall, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 107311
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Dickens Charles.
The Uncollected Writings of Charles Dickens � Household Words 1850-1859.
Two volumes. Allen Lane - Penguin Press London. 1969. First edition thus. Edited by Harry Stone. Hardback. Black and White illustrations. VG in VG Dust Jackets DJ edges lightly worn. Presented in VG- slipcase. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra. Two volumes. Allen Lane - Penguin Press, London. 1969. First edition thus. Edited by Harry Stone. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 22044
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DICKENS Charles.
The Old Curiosity Shop.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1842. Presentation copy Large octavo. Original brown vertical grain cloth covers blind-stamped spine with figure and title in gilt stained worn inscribed to Bryant "from his friend and admirer Charles Dickens". Housed in a quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. With two autograph letters signed to the poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant Carlton House New York 14 and 27 February 1842 together 3 pages 8vo the second with later annotation to upper margin. Provenance: by descent from the recipient. Spine expertly repaired with restoration at head dampstaining to top edge of contents boards scuffed and dampstained foxing throughout offsetting and oxidisation to plates as usual with American piracies of this date overall a good copy. Presentation copy inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation inscribed by Dickens: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens" signed with his characteristic lavish underscores and with two accompanying autograph letters signed. In the first letter Dickens writes: "With one exception and that's Irving you are the man I most wanted to see in America". Dickens excuses himself for not having been able to see Bryant when he called adding though that "As I lost what I most eagerly longed for I ask you for your sympathy and not for your forgiveness". He presses Bryant to come and breakfast with him—"I don't call to leave a card at your door before asking you because I love you too well to be ceremonious with you. I have a thumbed book at home so well now that it has nothing of you on the back but one gilt 'B' and the remotest possible traces of a 'y'. My credentials are in my earnest admiration of its beautiful contents". The second letter was the cover note to the gift of six American editions of Dickens's works all similarly inscribed: "If I had any control over the accompanying books they should be unillustrated and in outward appearance more worthy your acceptance." After the delays indicated by the first letter here Dickens finally met Bryant for their first private audience on his American tour on Tuesday 22 February 1842. Bryant responded to the gift of books by presenting a copy of this own The Fountain and other Poems his inscription using the same form of words that copy later in the Stephen H. Wakeman collection sold American Art Association April 1924 lot 26 $400. Bryant was well-disposed to Dickens at that time the most famous living author in the world but he like many other Americans was dismayed by the criticisms Dickens expressed in his American Notes 1842 and in the American chapters of Martin Chuzzlewit 1844. However he recovered sufficiently to visit Dickens as an old friend on his return to America in 1867. The fact that this is an American edition is evocative: Dickens had strong feelings on the contentious issue of international copyright and the subject hung over the whole trip. He mentioned it himself several times during his public engagements eventually drawing on himself the wrath of the American press. Lea and Blanchard successors to Cary and Lea were Dickens's "official" American publishers and had prepared for his visit by reprinting his works to date but the American economy was in the middle of a depression general fiction could only be sold in the cheapest possible formats and the cash-strapped publishers were not eager to further erode their profits by paying royalties to foreign authors. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 90111
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