INTRODUCING CHARLES DICKENS.
New York: Dodd Mead, (1940). Advance Review Copy, with publisher slip laid-in. ix, [3], 250 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping. No dust jacket. Selections from the Inimitable's works. More
New York: Dodd Mead, (1940). Advance Review Copy, with publisher slip laid-in. ix, [3], 250 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping. No dust jacket. Selections from the Inimitable's works. More
New - York: Jemima M. Lewer, Publisher. 1838. 1st printing thus (cf. Smith AMERICAN 3n6). 2 volumes: [[2], [v] - viii, 188; 628; v, [1], 208, [2], 313 - 416, [2], 417 - 520, [2], 521 - 632; [4], 188, 355 - 366 pp. Vol II begins with announcement for..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1909. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 780). xxxix, [1 (blank)], 408 pp (including Index). Dictionary portion double column. Royal 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Includes a section on "originals & prototypes" for Dickens' characters/settings. More
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop Inc, (n. d.). 1st printing. [2], 62 pp. A few photographic images. 9" x 5-3/4". Glossy colored paper wrappers with black title lettering printed to front cover. Useful reference for the collector, or bookseller [fwiw, I have a copy in my Dickens reference library]. More
New York: Published by John Bradburn (Successor to M. Doolady), 1865. 1st US book edition, 2nd issue (Edgar & Vail, p. 29n [stating 'not seen']; Gimbel A153; Smith 14, p. 408). Not in VanderPoel, nor Wilkins. 4 volumes in 2 (317, [1 (blank)]; 314; 314; 294 pp). Frontis in each..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1896. 1st edition thus (NCBEL III, 784). xxx, 408, [4] pp. Separate t.p. [though continuous pagination] for Lazy Tour. One page publisher advert follows text. Frontis & two illustrations in RP. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1877. 80 pp. 2 prefatory woodcut vignettes. 16mo. Green decorative cloth w/ gilt lettering on front board/decorations stamped inblack. 'Vest Pocket Series' red advert eps. 3rd edition (Eckel, p. 159; Gimbel B62; VanderPoel B530[1]). Not in Welsh, though see #2371, MR NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY, also..... More
Philadelphia: Dickens Fellowship, 1914. 1st editon, limited to 500 copies (#66/500). SIGNED by the editor. 152 pp. illustrated, 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Printed paper title label to spine. TEG. A mock trial of Jasper put on by the Philadelphia chapter of the Fellowship. More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, (n. d.). Ca late 1920s (?). Not in Gimbel, nor Miller. 143, [1] pp. Last page an advert. Illustrated by Harold Copping, and others. Crown 8vo. Green cloth binding with pictorial paper onlay to front board. No dust jacket. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1919). [8], 308, [4 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. More
London: Suckling & Galloway, 1896. 1st edition (Gimbel H455; NCBEL III, 849). iv, [2], 190 pp. Partially unopened. Fold-out frontis of the mob setting fire to the Kings Bench Prison. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 5". Green decorative cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. TEG. "A study of the prisons described by..... More
Boston: Little Brown, (1964). 1st edition. xiv, 370 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. 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 were close friends; Chap 21 on Dickens. More
London: Robson & Kerslaker, 1882. 1st edition (Gimbel H1137; Grego, PICTORIAL PICKWICKIANA II, pp. 449 - 455; House, p. 407; NCBEL III, 788; VanderPoel B47[1-4]). A suite of 24 [loose] color illustrations to Dickens' PICKWICK PAPERS, including engraved title, as drawn by Pailthorpe. 10-15/16" x 7-9/16". Original publisher's green printed..... More
Leamington Spa / Birmingham: Arthur W. Waters 64 Bath St. / Holland Bros. 21 John Bright St. 1921. 1st edition (Gimbel H995; NCBEL III, 788). 12 plates laid-in. List of plates / novel source printed to inner wrappers. Line engraved reprocuctions of Brock's pne-n-ink drawings. 11-1/2" x 8-7/8". Printed buff..... More
New York: Punchinello, 1870. 1st edition. Illustrated with cuts & engravings. Small Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-3/4". Half leather binding with pebbled cloth boards. The first appearance of this title, as serialized in the Punchinello magazine. This a bound volume of the periodical beginning with No 7 (May 14, 1870) and..... More
London: Redway, 1898. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 820). Review copy. 401 pp. illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering. Intro by Kitton (author of "Dickensiana" bibliography - 1886), who asserts 24 of the 46 items in this collection not included in any previous bibliography. This copy has..... More
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, (1929). 1st Edition (presumed). Not in Gimble. 102 pp. Binder's blanks at rear. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's sea-green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. "This study ... has thrown considerable light on the early reading of Dickens, and the sources from which he..... 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
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1924. 1st edition. Ltd to 440cc. 241 pp. Untrimmed fore- bottom edges. Illustrated with plates (of items not often seen elsewhere). 8vo. Modern brown cloth spine, with gilt lettered leather title label, over original light brown boards. TEG. Eps renewed. Excellent reference, which chronicles instances where Dickens..... More
New York: W. A. Townsend and Company. 1861. 1st printing of this edition (Bolton. AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS, p. 42; Gimbel D38). 4 volumes (306; 312; 306; 304 pp). Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in Vols I & IV; by Gilbert in Vol III. Vol II frontis unsigned. Small 8vo. 7"..... More
New York: Published by William H. Colyer, No. 5 Hague - Street, 1843. Early US edition (Smith AMERICAN, pp. 173 - 174; Wilkins, p. 19). 2 volumes: iv, [13] - 224; [4], [13] - 216, 4 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude Vol II, dated January 1st, 1843, including..... More
London: MacMillan, 1892. 1st edition thus. 604 pp. B&W illustrations after the originals. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. The introduction by Charles Jr. contains some interesting bibliographical information. More
Universtiy Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1991). 1st edition. x, 218 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. An attempt to identify the real people who served as models for Dickens' characters. More
New York: Clark Austin Maynard & Co., 3 Park Row. 1862. Later edition (Gimbel B-170 [fourth copy] & Wilkins, pp. 40 - 41, for the Redfield edition). 175, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontis, and engraved t.p. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's violet cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering &..... More