New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). 1st Edition in English. ix, [3], 587, [7 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth backed boards. Dust jacket. Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, et al all focus their considerable deductive powers on "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"…. More
![OLIVER TWIST [or The Parish Boy's Progress]. In Three Volumes. Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870](/pictures/thumb/44033.jpg?v=1542149640)
London: Richard Bentley, 1839 - 1840. New Edition [cf. Tillotson Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Fifth Series, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, June 1963; Smith, Notes 5d and 5e]. Three volumes: [2], 331, [1, blank], [4, ads] pp.; [2], 307, [1, blank] pp.; [2], 315, [1, blank] pp. 24 engraved plates..... More
Yonkers NY: Arlington Chemical Co., (n. d.). Unpaginated, though 16 pages. Illustrated with 8 images, one of each featured character & of Dickens himself. 7-1/4" x 5-3/4". Printed wrappers, stapled. Featured are Drs Lumbey [Nicholas Nickleby], Jeddler [Battle of Life], Blimber [Dombey], Kutankumagen [Mudfog Papers], Professor Muff [Mudfog Papers], Dr..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1919). Later printing. xix, [3], 424, [6, blank] pp. Illustrated with b/w plates. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Red cloth lettered in gilt. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1872 - 1877. 16 volumes, complete. Text printed double column. Publisher's advertising insert to first volume. Illustrated by diverse artists, including the Americans Abbey, Frost, Nast, & Reinhart. 10" x 7". Original publisher's green highly decorative cloth with gilt stamped lettering & designs. This..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1882. 1st US edition. 222 pp + 6 pp adverts at rear. Sm. 8vo. Black cloth binding with red lettering. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, No. 306 Chestnut Street. (n. d.). Ca 1857. 1st US one-volume edition (cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 27). Cf. Gimbel D25, "tenth set" 376 pp. Text double column, and per Edgar & Vail, derived from the Harper serial publication. 8 pp of adverts at rear [with..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1937. 1st edition. #27/35 cc. 14 pp. 'Times' article [9 June 1938] mounted & bound-in at rear. 8vo. Custom bound in brown qtr calf with blue silk moire boards. "Mr Slum", described by Partington as a "pathetic and whimsical person" [from The Old Curiosity..... More
Philadelphia: T. P. Peterson & Bros. (n. d.). Circa mid-to-late 1860s. 109 pp (double column) + 3 pp adverts at rear. 8vo. Original lt pink printed wrappers with woodcut vignette. From 'Peterson's Cheap Edition for the Millions' Series. This title not in the Gimbel collection (See Gimbel D40). More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. (n. d.). Early US printing (ca. 1868). Cf. VanderPoel B451. [17] - 107, [5] pp. 5 pages of adverts at rear. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's salmon-colored printed paper wrappers with woodcut vignette. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1913. 1st edition. No. 437 of an edition limited to 750. xviii, 296 pp (including Index). Frontis portrait of Dickens; 36 illustrations & facsimiles, including a four-panel fold-out showing the title page variations of the first edition of The Battle of Life. 8vo. Brown cloth binding..... More
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1921. 1st edition thus. Limited to 275 cc. 59 pp (including a 1 pg advert at rear), frontis, 8vo. Grey paper-wrapped boards with paper spine label. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Early US edition [Edgar & Vail, pg 23; Gimbel A93; VanderPoel B403(2)]. 32 pp (double column) + 16 pp 'Catalogue of Books' at rear, 8vo. Printed brown wrappers. Uncut edges. Often called the 1st US edition, priority cannot be established with absolute certainty, so..... More
London: George Redway, 1885. 1st editon (NCBEL III, 780). 56, [4] pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts at rear [dated 1885]. Sm 8vo. Full faux vellum with gilt stamped title lettering, beveled edges. More
London: George Redway, 1885. 1st editon (NCBEL III, 780). 56 pp + publisher adverts at rear. Sm 8vo. Full faux vellum with gilt lettering. More
![The SPEECHES Of CHARLES DICKENS [1841 - 1870].; With a Preface & New, Revised & Enlarged...](/pictures/thumb/9289.1.jpg?v=1542151209)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 1st edition thus (NCBEL III, 780). 378 pp (including index) + 32 pp Oct 1883 publisher advert at rear, 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. First book edition, 2nd issue (Smith I, 7). NB. Despite the assertion by some booksellers that the £ placement on the frontis constitutes an edition issue point, let me assure you it does not (cf. Smith I, p. 67). xiv, [2], 624 pp. 40 illustrations..... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1871. 1st UK edition. The Edward Daost copy. 152 pp. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering & front board blocked in black. Bookplate of Clara B. and Edward C. Daoust to first pastedown. 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: Printed at the Chiswick Press for Cumberland Clark, 1918. 1st edition (Gimbel B108). Not in the NCBEL. 15, [1 (blank)] pp. Facsimile of Dickens' letter. 8vo. Quarter bound with white cloth spine over red paper-wrapped boards. Gilt title stamping to front board. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, [1862]. 1st US edition, later issue, ca 1867 (cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 29). [4] [21] - 86, [10] pp. Text double column. Adverts last 10 pages. Last bolt unopened. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-1/8". Original printed salmon-colored paper wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette to front wrapper..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, (n. d.). Circa late 19th C. / early 20th C. 128 pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece. Intratextual wood engravings. 8vo. Green cloth bindnig with black & gilt stamping to front board. Title blindstamped to spine. More
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, (1991). 1st edition. 239 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Green dust jacket. More
New York: Cornish Lamport & Co., 1852. 1st edition (Gimbel H405; VanderPoel B609; Wilkins, p 39). 228 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind (professionally rebacked). Pale yellow eps. The 'Dickens' contributions come from Household Words, though only..... 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
