Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard / Blanchard and Lea, 1842 [1851]. 1st US edition, later impression (Smith AMERICAN, p. 187). [4], [9] - 323 pp. Text double-column. Illustrations by Cattermole, Brown & Sibson: frontis, engraved title page [dated 1842], 51 intra-textual wood engravings & 10 inserted wood engraved plates (some with..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1851. 1st Collected edition, preceding the UK Chapman & Hall by one year. Not in Gimbel, though see D12 for the subsequent 1852 Getz, Buck & Co. edition. 31, [3 (blank)]; 32; 35, [1 (blank)]; 30, [2 (blank)]; 32; 72, 16 pp. Group t.p., plus each..... More
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Boston: Boston Job Print, Alden Street, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1880. Not found in Bolton. Single sheet broadside, 10-1/4" x 4-3/8", 17 lines of text. A playbill advertising LeMoyne & "His Celebrated Company", with "the entire Company in both Pieces." as appearing at Bangor Maine's famed Norembega Hall..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. 1st edition thus (Gimbel H1002 [second set]; NCBEL III, 795; VanderPoel B171). Plates on plate paper, no tissue guards. Wrappers: 10-1/4" x 6-13/16". Plates: 10-15/16" x 7". Housed in the publisher's printed, pale blue-green portfolio-style paper-wrappers. "Price One Shilling." An uncommon piece of Dickensiana, this..... More
London: 1864. 1st edition. 48 pp. Inserted at front, a 4 page advert, printed on blue paper. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Blue printed wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dickens wrote Parts I & VII; see Oppenlander, p. 150, for specific contributions of the other authors... More
Boston: William F Gill & Company, 1876. 1st edition thus (Gimbel D75; Parrish COLLINS, pp 70-71; VanderPoel B460). [2], 288 pp. Volume title leaf tipped-in at front. Individual t.p. for each story, though with continuous pagination. Illustrated with wood engravings. 12mo. Oringinal green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & wreath..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (n. d.). Circa 1877. [4], [21] - 532 [= 516] pp. Crown 8vo. Publisher's original morocco-style pebbled green cloth with gilt stamped spine & gilt-stamped Dickens' bust to front board. Bevelled edges. Brown clay-paper eps. More
New York: Published by E. Brown Junr. Printed by N. Currier, New York. 1839. Cf. Conningham 643. Image - 11-3/4" x 8-7/8". Framed: 25" x 19-1/2". Housed in an attractive gilt frame. Image of a young Dickens [bust aspect, after the "Nickleby Portrait" by Maclise] lithographed on proof paper &..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company. 1863. 1st printing of this edition (cf. Gimbel D38). 4volumes (viii, [9] - 309, [1 (blank)]; vi, [7] - 318; vi, [7] - 329, 1 (blank)]; vi, [7] - 308 pp). Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in Vols I, II & IV. Frontis by..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company. 1862. 1st printing of this edition (cf. Gimbel D38). 4 volumes (322; 312; 306; 336 pp). Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in Volumes I, II & IV; by John Gilbert in Volume II. Small 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1863. 1st edition thus (cf. Gimbel D38). 2 volumes (vi, [7] - 333, [5 (blank)]; vi, [7] - 338, [4 (blank)] pp). 'RP' in Volume II. Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in each volume. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's green cloth with gilt..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, [1926]. 1st Printing thus (Miller, p. 271). 19, [5] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. A separately printed extract from Dexter's "The England of Dickens". Not in the NCBEL, nor Gimbel. OCLC shows 9 holding institutions. 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
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
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
(n. p.): United Feature Syndicate Inc., [1934]. 1st printing thus (cf. Smith II, 12n1). Unpaginated, though 19 leaves [last 3 blank]. The Life of our Lord, in 14 installments, extracted from an unidentified newspaper, and affixed to album leaves, with Dore's illustrations opposite. Stubs of excised leaves at rear. Illustrated..... More
New York & London: George D. Sproul, 1908. "Autograph Edition". 1st edition thus (Gimbel D-148; NCBEL III, 784). SIGNED by Dowden. Limited to 250 cc. 2 volumes (xxxiii, [3], 373, [1 (blank)]; xvi, 407 pp [including Index]). Each volume with an original frontispiece by William Rainey, R.I., SIGNED by Rainey..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1960. 1st edition. xxiv, 293, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow dust jacket. More
London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1988. 1st edition thus. Revised & augmented. xxxii, 456 pp (including Index). 8vo. Black cloth binding with silver stamped title lettering to spine. Red dust jacket, with black printing. More
(n. p.): Micawber Fine Editions, 2000. 1st edition thus. #III of 10 cc hors commerce. Total limitation of 85 cc. SIGNED by Findeiss & Dean. 160, [4], ii - xxiv, [11] pp. Illustrated in color by Findeiss. With an additional suite of 11 SIGNED / Numbered loose plates. 8vo. 10-1/8"..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. 1st US edition (Brussel EAST TO WEST, p. 81; Gimbel B283). 46 pp. Text in double-column. 8vo. Later green library buckram binding. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. 1st US editiion (Brussel EAST TO WEST, p. 81; Gimbel B283; Oppenlander ATYR Contributer List, p. 136; VanderPoel B450, for the 1864 edition). Not in Edgar & Vail. [3] - 46 pp. Text double-column. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Printed white wrappers. Adverts to rear..... More
London: 1863. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 813). 48 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers, sewn. Dickens responsible for the first & last sections; Mrs Gaskell penned the 2nd section. Cf. Oppenlander, p. 136, for a distribution of the other contributors' efforts. More
London: 1863. 1st edition. 48 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers, sewn. Dickens responsible for the first & last sections; Mrs Gaskell penned the 2nd section. Cf. Oppenlander, p. 136, for a distribution of the other contributors' efforts. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, No. 102 Chestnut Street. (n. d.). "Library Edition". 1st collected edition thus, i.e., from this publisher. Ca 1854-55. Collected t.p. begins each volume; each title with separate individual t.p., from "Peterson's Uniform Edition". Illustrated with plates & intratextual wood engravings. 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding..... More
