DISCUSSIONS Of CHARLES DICKENS.
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., (1961). ARC, with review slip tipped-in to verso of front wrapper. 115 pp, 8vo. Printed color wrappers. From the Discussion of Literature Series. More
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., (1961). ARC, with review slip tipped-in to verso of front wrapper. 115 pp, 8vo. Printed color wrappers. From the Discussion of Literature Series. More
San Francisco: Chas. Wood & Associates, 1957. 1st edition. Limited to 350cc. Unpaginated. Printed by the Black Vine Press. Photograph of Collins as frontis taken by Bassano in London sometime in the latter half of the 1800s. Sq 8vo. Red cloth binding. Paper title label to front board. 6 facsimilies..... More
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, (1991). 1st edition. 239 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Green dust jacket. More
Portland ME: J. Weston Walch, (1966). 18 ff. printed on stiff stock. Illustrations from the Beettmann archive. Folio. Stiff wrappers, stapled. 18 scenes from Dickens' life & fiction. More
London: Folcroft Library Editions, 1971. Reprint of the 1928 1st edition. 20 pp, 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. More
London: The Dickens Fellowship, 1935. 1st ed. 4 issues. 314 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering & facsimile Dickens' signature on front board. More
London: The Dickens Fellowship, 1933. 1st edition. 4 issues. 336 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering & facsimile Dickens' signature on front board. More
London: Dickens Fellowship, 1937. Rpt of the 1927 edition. 85, [5] pp. illustrated. 8vo. printed wrappers. More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. Successors to Carey & Co., 1839. 1st US book edition (VanderPoel B125(2); cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 18; Gimbel A43, 'fourth copy'). i-ii, 3-5, vi - viii, 13 - 403 pp, double column of text. Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins; Stereotyped by J. Fagan, Philadelphia..... More
London: 1850. 1st volume edition (NCBEL III, 818). vii, [1], 280 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. A monthly news supplement to Dickens' "Household Words", here found in the annual with a Table of Contents. More
London: 1851. 1st volume edition (NCBEL III, 818). vii, [1], 280 pp. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. A monthly news supplement to Dickens' "Household Words", here found in the annual with a Table of Contents. More
New York: Published by McElrath & Barker, 1853. 1st US volume edition. iv, 620 pp. 8vo. Publisher's black half-sheep with gilt spine lettering & dark brown cloth boards. More
London: Thomas Farris, [1847]. 1st edition (Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller, p. 249; NCBEL III, 798). [2], 94 pp. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-1/2". Period brown half-leather with brown cloth boards. Original wrapper covers from Parts I & II (priced 6p) bound-in at rear... 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
London: Walter Scott, 1887. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 829). 166, xxxiii, [9] pp. Bibliography after text. Adverts last 8 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering; TEG. Large paper edition, largely unopened; contains bibliography by Anderson. More
London: Printed by John Parkinson Bland, (n. d.). 2nd printing. Ca pre-WWI. One sheet, printed both sides. Text double column. 9-3/4" x 7-3/8" Extracts from Dickens' BLEAK HOUSE. No copies on OCLC. Scarce. More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1847. 1st appearance. Cf. Hatton & Cleaver, pp 243 - 244. 12, 417 - 448 pp [2nd issue text, with p. 231 numbered]. Adverts precede novel's text. 2 plates. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Original blue-green paper wrappers. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. (n. d.). Ca 1855. Early US appearance of 'Hard Times'. 223, [1] pp. Text double column. Nickleby portrait as frontispiece. 8vo. Original publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & figure; boards stamped with geometric design (professionally recased). Bright yellow eps. Contains..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st Cheap edition (in volume form). 324 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847, with Pickwick Papers, in weekly, monthly &..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-65. 1st edition (Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 345 - 370). 20 parts in 19. Some advert variances (+/-) from that found listed in Hatton & Cleaver; specific collation supplied on request. Illustrated with 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Original green printed wrappers..... More
New York: Carleton, 1861. 1st US edition (Edgar & Vail, p. 29). 48 pp (double column). 8vo. Black qtr leather with marbled boards. These three items bound under one roof, though each with a separate title page. The above info given for Dickens. Craik's 'Tales' pbd by by Harper &..... More
London: Partridge and Co., 1860. 1st Edition. viii, 152 pp. Errata slip tipped-in prior to Contents page. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original blue publisher's cloth, with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Custom blue quarter-leather clamshell case. From the publisher's preliminary note, "The writer begs to acknowledge the courtesy..... More
New York: J. Winchester, Publisher. 1841. 1st edition thus. [2], 692 pp. Illustrated with 8 (of, at least, 9) inserted full-page plates. 15" x 10-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth with later cloth tape repair to spine & board corners. Contains portions of 'Master Humprey's Clock' beginning in the June 1840..... More
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
London: Printed and Published by William Bradbury, 1846 [1896]. Facsimile Reprint, ca 1896. 8 pages. Text in 6 columns. Elephant folio. 24-1/2" x 18-1/4". Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. First appearance [in facsimile] of a newspaper initially edited by Charles Dickens, his resignation coming barely more..... More