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
New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. 1st edition. xi, [1 (blank)], 303, [1 (blank) pp (including Index). 16 page suite with 20 illustrations. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. "Combining literary study and social history, Norris Pope examines key issues in the reform movement that shook English society in Dickens's era..."... 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: Published by Getz Buck & Co., 1853. Later US edition. Not listed by Smith, though see p. 141, for an 1852 unillustrated Getz & Buck edition; see also Gimbel D13. viii, [13] - 403, [1 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Frontis & 39 inserted plates. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8"..... More
London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1950. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 830). 459, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Publisher info card laid-in. 8vo. Orange cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Printed dark yellow belly band, with blurb by "Dr. Edith Sitwell" Somewhat uncommon biography of the Inimitable, especially..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 1st edition (Smith II, 9). [8], 188 pp. Advert leaf precedes frontis & engraved title leaf Frontis & vignette title leaf. 15 internal illustrations. Artists: Tenniel (6), Leech (5), Stone (3) & Stanfield (3) Small 8vo. 6-3/4" - 4-1/4". Publisher's original red, vertically-ribbed cloth with..... More
London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 1st edition, with 2nd state of the OT advert (Eckel, p. 119; Smith II, 6). [8], 174, [2] pp. Advert last 2 pp. 14 illustrations by Leech, et al. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/16". Original publisher's red cloth binding..... More
Cambridge: The University Press, 1910. 1st edition, 2nd issue. For Mr. Smith's private distribution. xi, [1 (blank)], 90 pp. Printed in french-fold fashion. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Special, full vellum binding, with text "printed on different paper [parchment-like], and are without the Bibliophile titles and seals." More
Philadelphia: Published by Getz Buck & Co., 1853. Mid-19th C. US edition. Cf Smith AMERICAN 5, pp. 188-189. [6], [9] - 323, [1 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Frontis, engraved t.p. (undated, with no publisher imprint) & 10 inserted plates (many with multiple images). Intratextual cuts. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8"..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1851. Later impression. Cf. Smith, AMERICAN 6 (p. 217). viii, [9] - 320, [2 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Frontis + 11 inserted plates after Phiz by Yeager. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine stamping & boards stamped in blind..... More
1843. Single sheet of light grey stationery, folded once vertically to form 4 pages, 24 lines, ~ 85 words. 7-1/8" x 4-3/8". Self-wrappers. D'Oyly writes Harley, who was fairly close to Dickens at the time & for whom Dickens wrote The Strange Gentleman, asking for an introduction to the rising..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. [1849]. 1st US edition [Calinescu Catalogue 91; Edgar & Vail, p. 25; Gimbel A120; Vander Poel B426(1)]. Not in the McGuire Catalogue. 34, [2] pp. Text double column. Adverts last 2 pages [Recto: "Valuable Geographical Works", state not listed by Vander Poel]. 8vo. 9-5/8"..... More
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[London]: 1846. Engraving: 13-1/8" x 9". Frame: 28-1/4" x 22-1/2". Matted & housed in a handsome gilt-edged wooden frame. Engraved by D. J. Pound, after a photograph by Mayall. A handsome piece destined to grace a study wall. 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
London - Paris - New York: 1868. 1st edition thus (Gimbel B295), i.e., with the lithographic plate reproducing Dicken's letter. This copy SIGNED by Dickens, in blue ink, on the original ffep, "Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens [flourish]". We posit it was signed by Dickens during his 1868 tour of..... More
[London]: Thomas McLean, Haymarket. Circa 1872. Engraving: 20" x 15". Frame: 33" x 27". Housed in a period wooden frame. Firth a long-time friend of Dickens, who Dickens commissioned in 1842 to paint a portrait of Kate Nickleby. This portrait of Dickens Frith completed in 1859, shows the author at..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 2006. 1st edition. Limited to 525 cc. 110 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
Paris: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Librairie Gallimard, 1956. xx, 1352, [2] pp. 6-7/8" x 4-3/8". Flexible pebbled green boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. In white dust jacket with red lettering, mylar cover, and plain tan cardboard slipcase. French language text. "Dombey & Son" translated by Georges Connes;..... More
