The DICKENS THEATRICAL READER.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1964). 1st ed. 370 pp, 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. X-lib copy. More
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LAYAWAY PURCHASE RECEIPT. P. F. Collier, Publisher, 14 Dupont Street, San Francisco. 2. 19 . 1887.
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
CHARLES DICKENS. His Life, Writings, and Personality.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1902. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. Cf. NCBEL III, 829. xv, [1 (blank)], 504 pp (including Index). Profusely illustrated. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
CREATING CHARACTERS With CHARLES DICKENS.
Universtiy Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1991). 1st edition. x, 218 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. An attempt to identify the real people who served as models for Dickens' characters. More
SCENES And CHARACTERS From The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS. Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-Six Drawings ... Printed from the Original Wood Blocks Engraved for "The Household Edition".
London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 850). xi, [1], 584 pp. 866 woodblock illustrations. 4to. 11-1/8" x 7-3/4". Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering & front board stamped in blind. This volume has every illustration that went into the Household edition; represented are such artists as..... More
CHARACTER SKETCHES From DICKENS.; With An Introduction by Kate Perugini.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 1924. 1st edition, "Edition De Luxe", copy #338, SIGNED by Matz, Copping & the publisher. Gimbel D198. 146 pp. 30 color plates by Copping. 4 facsimiles. 4to. Publisher's brown leather binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board blind embossed. More
DICKENS And His ILLUSTRATORS.
London: George Redway, 1899. 1st edition. xvi, 256 pp. Untrimmed. 69 inserted plates depicting 22 portraits & 70 original illustrations. Tissue guard, with caption, for each plate. 4to. Period three-quarter dark brown leather with marbled paper boards. TEG. More
MRS. GAMP by Charles Dickens. A Facsimile of the Author's Prompt Copy.; Foreword by Monica Dickens. Introduction and Notes by John D. Gordan.
[New York]: The New York Public Library, 1956. 1st printing (Gimbel B121). Limited to 500 cc. xvii, [1], 120, [2] pp. Frontis piece. Collotype facsimiles. Tall 8vo. Two-tone rough weave linen cloth binding. More
LITTLE PAUL From The DOMBEY And SON Of CHARLES DICKENS.
New York: Clark Austin Maynard & Co., 3 Park Row. 1862. Later edition (Gimbel B-170 [fourth copy] & Wilkins, pp. 40 - 41, for the Redfield edition). 175, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontis, and engraved t.p. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's violet cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering &..... More
PHIZ And DICKENS. As They Appeared to Edgar Browne. With Original Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne.
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1913. 1st Trade Edition. xiv, 320 pp including index. 39 plates. 10" x 7". Blue cloth binding with gilt and embossed face of Dickens face stamped to front board. Gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. TEG. Dust jacket. More
The POSTHUMOUS PAPERS Of The PICKWICK CLUB.
New York: James Turney, 1838. 1st book edition, second issue by this publisher (Smith AMERICAN 2, pp 67 - 73). xii, 609, [1] pp. 32 plates by Seymour, Phiz, & Crowquill. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine [Smith variant A], rebacked. Eps..... More
CHARLES DICKENS The Man and His Work.; With an Introduction by Arlo Bates.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 1st edition, limited to 550 sets. This #205. 2 volumes. Frontis & t.p. vignette in each volume. 12mo. Blue paper-wrapped boards. TEG. Original box with paper spine label. More
The STORY Of LITTLE DOMBEY.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st printing of this "Cheap and Uniform Edition" (Eckel, p. 215; Gimbel B171; NCBEL III, 798). [4], 119, [3] pp. A one-page advert at rear. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Original green printed wrappers with oval vignette of Little Paul to front cover, and rear cover..... More
CHARLES DICKENS TRIES To REMAIN ANONYMOUS. Notes on The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.
Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press as an insert for the Colophon, 1939. 1st separate edition. #3 / 10 cc. Not in Gimbel. Unpaginated, though 30 pages. Binder's blanks at front & rear. Illustrated, including facsimiles. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Brown cloth binding with title gilt stamped to front board..... More
GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Complete in One Volume.; From Peterson's Uniform Duodecimo Edition of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (1861). 3rd edition, illustrated issue. Published the same year as the first (cf Smith AMERICAN 13, pp 377 - 378). [15] - 523, [3 (blank)] pp. With 34 Illustrations from Original Designs by John McLenan. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's..... More
The PICKWICK ILLUSTRATIONS. By Samuel Weller.
London: E. Grattan, 51, Pasternoster Row. 1837. 1st book edition (Kitton, Dickens and His Illustrators, pp. 234). The volume edition not in Gimbel, nor the NCBEL, though see H1120 & NCBEL III, 788 for the Parts issue. 32 plates by Onwhyn, complete. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown printed..... More
CHARLES DICKENS As A READER.
London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1872. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 814). vii, [3], 271, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" Period full brown morocco binding, gilt dentelles, marbled eps, TEG. Original cloth covers bound-in at rear. A personal memorial from one intimately familiar with Dickens' readings... More
APPRECIATIONS And CRITICISMS Of The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1911. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 840). xxx, 243, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. TEG. A collection of Chesterton's introductions used in the Everyman publications of Dickens' works. More
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A LIST Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. [accompanied by] TNs from Parrish to W[illiam] Miller.; Compiled from the Collection at Dormy House, Pine Vally, New Jersey. Exhibition at The LIBRARY COMPANY Of PHILADELPHIA February 17 to March 10, 1938.
[Philadelphia]: 1938. 1st printing (Gimble H356; Miller, p. 281). Unpaginated, though 18 pp (including wrappers). 7" x 4-3/4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Housed in a custom maroon cloth chemise; gilt stamped black leather title label to spine. The catalogue provides a chronological list of Dickens' works, as found in the Parrish..... More
LIFE Of CHARLES DICKENS.; With Personal Recollections and Anecdotes; - Letters by 'Boz,' Never Before Published; - And Uncollected Papers in Prose and Verse.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street, (1870). 1st edition (NCBEL III, 828). [15] - 484, 6, 14, [6] pp. The 6 page "Controversy" folows text, with 18 pages of adverts following. Last leaf blank. Frontispiece of Dickens. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth..... More
The MYSTERY Of EDWIN DROOD And Some Uncollected Pieces.
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 1st US book edition, Second Issue (Gimbel A156; Smith AMERICAN 15, pp 413 - 416). iv, [2], 210 pp [double column]. 2 page gap in pagination as detailed by Smith. DROOD illustrated with 12 b&w cuts after Luke Fildes' originals, and HOLIDAY ROMANCE illustrated..... More
BARDELL v. PICKWICK, Adapted from the Pickwick Papers.; For thirteen male and two female characters, and a Jury. Abel Heywood & Son's Publications. Original Dramas, Dialogues & readings. No. 11
Manchester & London: Abel Heywood & Son, (n. d.). 1st editon thus, i.e., by this publisher, ca 1880s. Cf. Bolton 70 [surmising a date of 1890]. 15, [1] pp. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Original pale yellow printed wrappers, bound in later blue stiff-stock covers with paper title label to spine..... More
DEALINGS With The FIRM Of DOMBEY And SON, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1852. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher (Gimbel A107). 2 volumes: x, [2], 499, [1 (blank)]; [4], 468 pp. 39 [of 41] plates, with 2 plates being omitted from Vol II [frontispiece vignette & "On the Dark Road" (p. 348)]. 12mo. 7-5/8" x...... More
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HOLIDAY ROMANCE. In Four Parts. Part III. [as Published in] OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. April. Number 40.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. 1st appearance (Edgar & Vail, p. 30; NCBEL III, 825). [193] - 256, 4 pp. Dickens' story, pp. 193 - 200. Adverts last 4 pages. Frontis. Cuts throughout the issue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed orange wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve..... More