Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, (n. d.). Circa mid-1850s. viii, [9] - 320 pp. Text double column. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & figure; boards stamped with geometric design. Bright yellow eps. More
Philadelphia: The Booklovers Press, (1901). 1st edition (Gimbel H50). 123, [1] pp. Last page blank. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. Cable wrote the 2 page 'Supplementary Reading: A Note" (not listed in the BAL). More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, (1900). Ca 1903 (cf. Sternick, ALTEMUS 74 & GP-27 [for images]). 64 pp. Illustrated with a frontis & 12 full-page illustrations. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 6-1/8". Gilt decorated white cloth spine with pale yellow boards decorated with a floral pattern [Dainty Format 2]. Buff printed dust jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 2nd US book edition (Edgar & Vail, p. 29 [incorrectly noting it as the 1st US]; Gimbel A151, sixth copy; VanderPoel B269(2) [also incorrectly catalogued as the 1st US]; Wilkins, p. 32). [2], [17] - 350 [= 334], [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pp..... More
New - York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. 1st edition thus (Edgar & Vail, p. 26; Gimbel B225). 47, [1] pp. Text double column. Last page blank. 8vo. Original publisher's buff paper wrappers, printed in black. " 'The Poor Relation's Story', pp. 3 - 8, and 'The Child's Story', pp 8..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1859. 1st edition thus (BM Extract 12605). 2 volumes (viii, 425, [3]; [4], 407, [1] pp). Text in French. 12mo. 18 cm x 11 cm. Period blue half-leather with blue marbled-paper boards. From the publisher's series - "Bibliotheque des Meilleurs Romans Etrangers". Contains..... More
New York: Scribner's, (1973). Later printing. xi, [1], 531, [1] pp (including Index). Last page blank. Royal 8vo. Black cloth binding. Pictorial eps. White dust jacket. More
Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun. 1847-48. 1st book edition (Todd & Bowden 119Aa, 120Aa & 121). 3 volumes ([4], 352; [4], 316; [8], 366, [2] pp). Half-titles present. 16mo, signed in 8s. 6-1/8" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's brown half morocco-style sheep with marbled paper boards; gilt decorated spines. Marbled eps &..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. 1st edition thus, and the 3rd US edition (Edgar & Vail, pp. 24 - 25; cf Gimbel A109, for an edition with 36 plates). Not in the McGuire collection. viii, [9] - 320 pp. Novel text in double column. Illustrated with a frontis, title page..... More
New York: Williams and Brothers, 1847. 1st US edition (cf. Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller, p. 249; NCBEL III, 798). [2], 94 pp. Bound from the UK sheets. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. Modern black leather spine with gilt lettering, with period brown cloth covered boards. EPS renewed. Pale..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. 1st edition thus [BFTP], and the 3rd US edition (Edgar & Vail, pp. 24 - 25; cf Gimbel A109, for an edition with 36 plates). Not in the McGuire collection. viii, [9] - 320 pp. Novel text in double column. 32 page publisher catalogue bound-in..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 1st one-volume edition (BFTP). xvi, 624 pp. 40 steel engraved plates by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne]. 8vo. Modern brown half-leather binding executed in a period style, with elaborate gilt decorated spine, red morocco title label in the second spine compartment & marbled paper boards. AEG..... More
Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani & Co., 1839. 1st edition thus. [4], 367, [1 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/8". Period brown quarter-leather with marbled boards. Gilt spine lettering. For many years, it was thought the 1846 Bradbury & Evans edition was the first 'octavo' edition (cf..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. 1st thus (NCBEL III, 798; VanderPoel B206). 4 steel engravings, each on a separate sheet. 9" x 6". Housed in a printed, pale green portfolio-style paper-wrappers. "Price One Schilling." More
London: John Camden Hotten, (n. d.). 1st UK book edition (Eckel, p. 199). Circa 1870. [2], 89, [1] pp. 17 pp publisher catalogue, dated 1871, at rear. Building vignette to front wrapper. 16mo. 6-3/8" x 4". Early 20th C. red full sheep (color touch-up along joints); gilt spine lettering. Marbled..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, (n. d.). Household edition. Ca 1870s (cf. Gimbel D66). x, 322 pp (double column). 46 wood engraved illustrations by F. Barnard. Royal 8vo. 10-1/8" x 7-1/2". Original blue wrappers printed in black. More
New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1894. 1st edition (BAL Vol 5, p. 195; Miller, p. 31). Not in Gimbel. Copy #14, of 15 cc, with 3 states of the frontis, with a total publication limitation of 77 cc. 39, [3] pp. Printed on Japan paper. P. 39..... More
London: Longsman Green & Co., 1966. Reprinting of the revised edition of 1963, with additions to the Bibliography. 52 pp. Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. Yellow-green wrappers, stapled. Front wrapper printed price canceled, with new price pasted over. More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1953. 1st edition. xi, [1], 445 pp (including index). 8vo. Marooon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. Fields & Dickens close friends; Chap 21 on Dickens. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. 1st printing. xxiv, [2], 771 pp (including Index). Frontis + facsimile letter. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. The most complete edition of Dickens' letters, with this volume containing 1087 letters (284 previously unpublished). More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, (n. d.). Ca early late 19th C. / early 20th C. 104 pp. Frontis + 10 inserted chromolithographed plates by Frances Brundage, as well as numerous intratextual cuts by Harold Copping, The Baroness Orezy, Willis Grey, Edith Scannell & Major Giles. Royal 8vo. Blue cloth..... More
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Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, 1834. 1st appearance thus (Edgar & Vail, p. 15; Gimbel E162). 416 pp. Text triple column. Dickens' work, pp. 136 - 138. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8". Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper boards (professionally rebacked, with new eps). Herein we find Dickens'..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street. (n.d.). Early US printing, ca mid-1850s [per t.p.; cased post 1860, per binding style]. Cf. Gimbel D25. vi, [9] - 362 pp. Text double column. 6 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis & engraved t.p. 101 intratextual woodcut illustrations. Tall 8vo..... More
London: 1850 - 51. 1st volume edition. 2 volumes in 1 (vii, [1], 280; vii, [1], 280). 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Period green half-sheep binding with green cloth boards. A monthly news supplement to Household Words, here found in the annual with a Table of Contents for each year... More
[London]: [St. Luke's Hospital], [1860]. 1st separate edition, second issue (Eckel, pp. 188-191; Gimbel B-216; VanderPoel B-465). 19, [1] pp. 7" x 4-3/4". Original pale pink printed wrappers, sewn. Typographical border surrounding title lettering on front wrapper. This short piece by Dickens, on St. Luke's Hospital, originally published in the..... More
