New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. 1st edition. 570 pp (including Index). Frontis. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Paper spine label. Issued w/o dj. Essential to any collector, or seller, of Dickens works. More
Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856. 1st edition (Wright 2516). vi, [7] - 310, [4 (blank)] pp. 4 page publisher advert tipped-in to rear eps. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. A epistolary novel. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1850. 1st US edition. Cf NCBEL III, 1218. 2 volumes: xii, [13] - 299, [1 (blank)]; viii, [9] - 332, [4 (adverts)] pp. Portrait frontis in Vol I. 12mo. 8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Yellow eps..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. 1st book edition, bftp (Smith I, 15). 2 volumes (xi, [1 (blank)], 320; vii, [1], 309, [1] pp). 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. Period purple half-morocco bindings, gilt stamped spine lettering, complementary purple pebbled cloth-covered boards. Red speckled edges. More
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop Inc, (n. d.). 1st printing. [2], 62 pp. A few photographic images. 9" x 5-3/4". Colored papered wrappers with black title lettering printed to front cover. More
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes. Illustrated by Cruikshank. 8vo. Bound in full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf. More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843. 1st edition (BAL 13633). 112, [2] pp. 1 page advert follows text. 2 divisional title leaves for "Father". "Soldier" on leaf recto. 12mo, gathered in 6s. 7" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's brown paper boards, printed paper title label to spine... More
New York: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. 1st US edition in book form (Edgar & Vail, p. 20; Smith AMERICAN 5, pp. 184 - 185; Wilkins, p. 20. Cf. Gimbel A63). 12, [4], iv, [9] - 323 pp. Text double-column. Adverts 1st 12 pp. Frontispiece. Engraved t.p. Inserted plates engraved by..... More
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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. 1st US edition, cloth issue A (Smith 5). vi, [9] - 362 pp (double column). Frontis & intratextual illustrations by Cattermole & Brown. 8vo. Brown sand grain cloth binding with gilt stamped spine (professionally refurbished). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961). 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. 144 pp (including Index). Filled with illustrations. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855 - 57. 1st edition (Hatton & Cleaver, pp 307 - 330). 20 parts in 19. Adverts per Hatton & Cleaver, with the following variances: Part 7 has additional advert for Cassell's History; 12 lacks blue "English Cyclopedia" slip; 13 lacks "Ask Mamma" slip & "Wreck"..... More
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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
London: Chapman & Hall, 1914. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 808). 79, [1 (blank)] pp. Reproduction of Part-issue wrapper graphics, p. 5. Royal 8vo. 9-7/8" x 7-1/4". Original blue printed paper covers. A mock trial heard in King's Hall, Covent Garden on Wednesday, 7 January 1914, with G. K. Chesterton presiding..... More
New York: Garland, 1975. 1st edition. xiv, 314 pp. 8vo. Red buckram cloth binding with black stamped lettering. More
Boston: Published by E. Littell & Company, 1850. 1st volume edition. [4], 619, [1] pp. Text double column. 8vo. Original publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & boards stamped in blind. Peach colored eps. More
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Boston: Joseph Ward, 125 Washington St. (n. d.). Ca 1870. Verso with logo, etc, for the publisher, who offers "Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, Photographs, Stereoscopes and Views." Image of a mature Dickens, from the late 1860s. 10 cm x 6 cm. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Nice contemporaneous..... More
London: Printed for the Publishers, 1855. 1st Edition thus, i.e., as this collection. Not found in Gimbel. Divers paginations. Some articles illustrated with cuts. 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Pale yellow eps. Volume collects a number of issues of Household Words, No. 150 [February..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1897. 1st edition. Large Paper copy. ix, [3], 245, [3] pp (including Index). Frontis. Head- tailpieces. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's tan quarter leather binding over blue-grey cloth boards. Contains much background material on each title. More
London: Tullis Russell & Co Ltd. Printed by Print Publicity Ltd., [1962]. 1st Edition, with an unspecified limitation. 26, [2] pp + captioned paper gutter inserts. 8 color illustrations by "Kyd". 10" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Pictorial eps. No dust jacket. An advertising vehicle for Russell..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 1st printing. xix, [3], 547, [1] pp. Frontis. Facsimiles. Map. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Red cloth binding. Pale yellow & red dust jacket. The most complete, scholarly edition of Dickens' letters, containing 706, of which 250 are previously unpublished. More
London: Elliot Stock, 1900. 1st ed. 260 pp (including index), Sm. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Beveled boards. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1920. 1st ed. 182 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Collection of misc. papers/essays written on various aspects of the Inimitable. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1964). 1st ed. 370 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. X-lib copy. More
San Francisco: 1887. A fill-in-the-blanks job-printed receipt for this California publisher, detailing layaway terms. Verso with blanks to record customer's payment record. 3-7/8" x 10". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. One Francis Cutting has deposited One Dollar, as of February 19, 1887, towards purchase of "1 Set Dickens"..... More
