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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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[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
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
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
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
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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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
Boston: Bradbury and Guild, 12 School Street, 1848. 1st edition thus, and 3rd US book edition (Wilkins, p. 26; Gimbel A112; Smith AMERICAN, pp 260 - 270). vii, [1 (blank)], 624 pp. 36 plates by H. K. Browne, as reengraved by an unidentified American engraver. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Original..... More
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway. 1846. 1st edition thus, and 2nd US edition (Smith AMERICAN, pp 66 - 69. [6], 97, 1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's reddish brown printed paper covers. Custom red cloth chemise in deep maroon quarter leather slipcase with red cloth..... More
