![TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. A Christmas Budget. [bound with] NOTHING NEW. Tales. [bound with] The...](/pictures/thumb/7287.jpg?v=1542151165)
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
![TO BE READ AT DUSK [as published in] Harper's New Monthly Magazine. No. XX. Vol. IV. January,...](/pictures/thumb/37766.jpg?v=1542149125)
New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1852. Early, if not 1st, US appearance. Dickens' story, pp. 235 - 239. Text double column. Issue illustrated with wood engravings. 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-3/4". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. 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
!["Mrs Joseph Porter, 'OVER The WAY'" [as published in] The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing...](/pictures/thumb/7642.1.jpg?v=1542151173)
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
!["Travelling Letters, Written on the Road - No. I." [as published in] The DAILY NEWS. London,...](/pictures/thumb/47621.jpg?v=1566947828)
London: Printed and Published by William Bradbury, 1846. Facsimile Reprint (Gimbel E50), ca 1890s (?). 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..... 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
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. 1st edition thus; published the same year as the 1st edition in London. [8], 367, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/8". Period black quarter-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Blue marbled paper eps. More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. 1st US edition (Edgar & Vail, p. 20; Gimbel B110). 2 volumes. Bound in 6s. Red cloth spines with buff paper-wrapped boards. Paper spine labels. More
New - York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1852. 1st edition thus. Not in Gimbel, though see D17 for another 1852 Putnam edition of this title. [6], 234 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine & boards stamped in blind. An uncommon edition..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. 1852. 1st edition thus (Gimbel D17). [6], 231, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Publisher's splain brown muslin cloth binding, with simple gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. Extracted from 'Household Words'. Japan, Bosnia, Cairo, China, the Suez & Catching Elephants are..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1859 - 1868. 1st volume edition. 20 volumes, complete. ~600 pages per volume. Text double column. Christmas Stories included: Vol 2 with "The Haunted House," Vol 6 has "Tom Tiddler's Ground," Vol 8 has "Somebody's Luggage," & Vol 10 has "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" (Vol 4 lacks..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes: xix, [3], 288; xix, [1 (blank)], 263, [1], 36 pp. Publisher catalogue concludes Vol II. Illustrated with 13 plates by Geroge Cruikshank. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5". Original publisher's pink ribbon-embossed cloth bindings. Yellow eps. Housed in a...... More
London: 1860. 1st printing. Pp [73] - 96. Text double column. Advert for 'Great Expectations' to p. 96. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Printed self wrappers, nested [not sewn]. "Price 2d" Contents include "A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance" [Chap XV], 'Bouquet from the Baltic', 'Poor Margaret' [poetry], & 'A Beautiful..... More
Boston: Published by Henry Prentiss 33 Court St. 1842. 1st edition thus (Miller, p. 226; Tilton, p. 515). Not in Gimbel, though see H783 with a similar publication by W. H. Oakes, citing music by James G. Meader. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. Small folio: 13" x 10". White paper wrappers..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 1st US edition (Edgar & Vail, p. 28; Gimbel E60; McGuire Collection, 79; VanderPoel B459). 1 - 6, 42, 7 - 10 pp. Text double column. Adverts precede & follow the story. Royal 8vo. 10-1/2" x 7". Original brown wrappers printed in black. According to..... More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed - Samuel Dalton, 1964. 1st edition thus. #285/1300 cc. 31 pp. Color Drawings by Rey Abruzzi. 8vo. Blue Decorative cloth binding. Yellow cloth slipcase. Printed to be distributed as Christmas greeting from Mr Dalton, with his presentation card laid-in. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. 1st 'Cheap' edition in book form (NCBEL III, 792). xii, 291, [1] pp. Text double column. Frontis by George Cruikshank; engraved by T. Bolton. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Period tan half-calf with marbled paper boards & dark maroon leather title label to spine. The "Cheap"..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. 1st 'Cheap' edition in book form (NCBEL III, 792). xii, 291, [1] pp. Text double column. Frontis by George Cruikshank; engraved by T. Bolton. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Period, plain green vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine [remainder binding?]. Plain paper..... More
London: MacMillan and Co., 1893. 1st edition thus. xvii, [3], 379, [1] pp. 5 illustrations [1 for AN, the remainder in PI]. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & gilt device to front board. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1842. 1st edition, 1st state (Smith II, 3). 2 volumes (xvi [i.e., x], [2], 308; vii, [1], 306, [6] pp). 6 pages of adverts conclude Volume II. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Original purplish-brown vertically-ribbed cloth with a blind decorative floral frame & gilt stamped spine lettering..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1842. 1st edition, 1st state (Smith II, 3). 2 volumes: [12 (with the 10th page numbered 'xvi')], 308; vii, [1 (blank)], 306, [6] pp. Adverts last 6 pages of Vol. II. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's reddish-brown vertically-ribbed cloth with a blind decorative floral frame..... More
Leipzig: Bernh Tauchnitz Jun. 1842. 1st Tauchnitz edition, with the indicated incorrect wording on p. 67 (Todd & Bowden 32). viii, 263 pp + colophon. Signed in 8s. 11.5 cm x 15.5 cm. Half brown leather with brown cloth boards; gilt decorative scrollwork & lettering on spine (T & B...... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 1st edition thus. 232 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. A nice reading copy. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street. (n. d.). Later printing, ca 1871. [9] - 472, [4 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Publisher's original morocco-style green cloth with gilt stamped spine & gilt stamped Dickens' bust to front board. Bevelled edges. More
