New York: Frank Tousey, 1914. Reissue. 32 pp, with last 2 pages adverts for divers products. Color woodcut illustration to front wrapper. Sm 4to. 11-1/8" x 7-7/8". Printed self wrappers, stapled. More
New York: Street & Smith, 1913. 1st printing. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened (!). Large format: 11" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Rear wrapper advert lists to No 31 in the series. More
New York: Street & Smith, 1913. 1st printing. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened (!). Small format: 11-1/8" x 7-3/8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Rear wrapper advert lists to No 37 in the series. More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1930. 1st printing thus. [2], 80, [2] pp. Index at rear. Last leaf an unused order blank. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Printed paper covers, stapled. Nursing section, pp. 65 - 72. A useful reference for tracing the history of publications documenting the evolution..... More
Louisville: The Dickens Society, 1988. 1st Printing. 105 - 170, [2 (blank)] pp. Dickens bust on front cover drawn by Barry Moser. 8vo. Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. 5 essays on divers aspects of Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby. More
New York: Street & Smith, 238 William Street, 1904. 1st printing thuse, i.e., by this publisher. 32 pp. Text double column. 11" x 8". Yellow covers, with front cover decorated with full color graphic of a young man diving off a boat to save a drowning damsel. Now housed in..... More
[Palm Springs]: Palm Springs Heritage Associates, Publisher, 1987. 1st Printing. 288 pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. Folio. 12-1/4" x 9-1/4". LIght tan cloth binding with gilt stamping. Blue dust jacket. More
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 11, Henrietta St. 1882. 1st edition (Sadleir 64). iv, 280; iv, 272; iv, 277, [3 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Original publisher's yellow ochre silk-grained cloth binding with black floral decoration to front board, gilt stamped lettering to spine. More
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1877. Seventh edition. xvi, 864 pp (including index). 12mo. Original publisher's deluxe full leather binding. Beveled boards. AEG. Marbled eps. More
New York: Published by the Society, 1888. 1st edition. vi, 82 pp. Text block unopened & untrimmed. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Buff, printed paper wrappers. More
New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. 1st book edition (Wright III, 1121). 196 pp. Frontis. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Printed buff wrappers. More
New York: Frank Tousey, 1917. Reprint (cf. Bragin, p. 21). 31, [1] pp, with last 2 pages adverts for divers products. Text double column. Color woodcut illustration [7-1/4" x 7"] to front wrapper. Sm 4to. 11-1/4" x 7-7/8". Printed self wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. According..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. (1905). Reprint. Ca late 1920s. Cf. Russo, p 227, for the series title genesis. 190, [2] pp. Life pictures by William B. Dyer. 8vo. Tomato red cloth binding with gold lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket, "with individual designs on wrapper and cover." From a...... More
London: Phaidon, (1972). 1st Edition in English. 496 pp. Illustrated, with much in color. 4to. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. Stiff-stock paper slipcase. Very heavy book, extra postage required. More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1927. 1st printing (cf. Todd & Bowden 4776a). Possibly a later issue, given the May rear wrapper advert & June publisher insert. 270, [2] pp. 32 page publisher catalogue at rear [dated June 1927]. 16mo. 6-1/2" x 4-5/8". Printed buff wrappers. More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1926. Ca 1928 (cf. Todd & Bowden 4741b). 271, [1] pp. 32 page publisher catalogue at rear [dated July 1928]. 16mo. 6-1/2" x 4-5/8". Printed buff wrappers. More
Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co., 1844. 1st edition thus (American Imprints 44-2697). 2 volumes (160; [2], 161 - 352 pp). Frontis & engraved title page to Part I. Wood engraving, p. 8. 7" x 4-5/8". Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Series advert to rear wrapper. Contents include: Lucretia and Margaret Davidson;..... More
Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co., 1845. 1st edition thus (American Imprints 45-2728). 2 volumes (vi, [7] - 160; [2], 161 - 320 pp). Cancel copyright notice pasted over that printed on copyright page. Frontis & engraved title page to Part I. 7" x 4-5/8". Original pink printed wrappers. Series advert..... More
New York: George Munro's Sons, 1897 [though early 1898]. 91 pp + adverts. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Buff printed wrappers. The evidence suggests Munro the first to issue a US edition of Dumas' "La Huitiéme Croisade". Somewhat scarce- OCLC & RLIN only record microform versions, and..... More
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1848. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 1218). 2 volumes. 45 illustrations. 8vo. Full polished calf with morocco spine labels; 5 raised spine bands w/ elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Marbled eps. '... the reader will find an account of London, partly topographical and historical, but chiefly..... More
Oakland, Cal. Pacific Press, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1874 - early 1875. Research suggests later editions have a printed address [Castro & 12th] for the Press, as well as illustrations. 16, 16 pp. Contains: Christmas Eve, Better Than Silver; What the Echo Said, Johnny's Victory, Keep Away From..... More
London: William Luks, (n. d.). Ca 1869 - 1870. Not in Gimbel, nor found on the National Portrait Gallery website. Bust image of Dickens, in his velvet coat, his gaze angled to the left. Image id caption at bottom, "Charles Dickens / William Luks, London". Image: 5-1-2" x 3-7/8". Mount..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st US Edition (Collie XXIIIc). [6], 235, [1 (blank)] pp. Fold-out map. Intratextual drawings. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8" Green cloth binding with gilt stamping. TEG. More
London: Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd., 1906. 1st Edition (Collie XXVII). lv, [1 (blank)], 300, [16] pp. 16 page publisher catalogue at rear. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4" Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. No dust jacket. More
London: William Heinemann, 1917. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 574; Todd 363a). The "Handmade Paper" edition, 307 / 300cc. xxvi, 194, [2] pp. 8vo. Prize binding, blue half morocco over blue cloth boards. Medallion gilt stamped to front board, and gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Blue marbled eps. Bit of..... More
