![NOREMBEGA HALL PLAYBILL [for] The OLD CURIOSITY SHOP or, Little Nell, the Marchioness.; [with]...](/pictures/thumb/44898.jpg?v=1542149991)
Boston: Boston Job Print, Alden Street, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1880. Not found in Bolton. Single sheet broadside, 10-1/4" x 4-3/8", 17 lines of text. A playbill advertising LeMoyne & "His Celebrated Company", with "the entire Company in both Pieces." as appearing at Bangor Maine's famed Norembega Hall..... More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1953. 1st edition. xi, [1], 445 pp (including index). 8vo. Marooon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. Fields & Dickens close friends; Chap 21 on Dickens. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 809). x, 218 pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 5 internal plates [with 16 images]. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. One author's explanation of the mystery. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Early US edition [Edgar & Vail, p. 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: The Dickens Fellowship, [1907]. 1st printing (NCBEL III, 787). 116 pp. 10 illustrations. 8vo. Green printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Exhibition held to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Completion of the 'Pickwick Papers'. More
London: The Dickens House, 1925 - 1928. 1st printing thus. ~ 48 pages. Some adverts. 8vo. Green printed wrappers. More
![The NONESUCH DICKENS. Sample Pages [plus ephemera]. Charles. 1812 - 1870 Dickens](/pictures/thumb/42956.2.jpg?v=1542149441)
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1938 - 1939. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Includes laid-in leaflet with a blurb from Mitchell Kennerley extolling the virtues of the set. 2 illustrations, plus facsimile title page illustrated with a cut. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8". Saddle-stitched sage-colored paper wrappers printed in black... More
New York: Sheldon and Company. 1862. 1st printing of this edition (cf. Gimbel D38). 4 volumes (322; 312; 306; 336 pp). Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in Volumes I, II & IV; by John Gilbert in Volume II. Small 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with..... More
New York: Garland, 1990. 1st edition. 345 pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Issued without dust jacket. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition. 2 volumes (xxii, 585, xlvii; viii, [586] - 1159, [9], lxix - cxcvii pp). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardbacks. Dust jackets. The most scholarly biography to-date. Uncommon in the first edition, as the title was also issued by the BOMC. 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. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Reprint of the 1914 edition. xvi, 127, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with plates & facsimiles by the author. Royal 8vo. Green vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamped lettering. More
London: T. N. Foulis, 1913. 2nd printing. [10], 347, [1 (blank)] pp (including index). Frontispiece. Inserted plates. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & black lettering to front board. Blue topstain. A look at those that, perhaps, occasioned the characters that populate Dickens'..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint of the revised & enlarged 1928 2nd edition. xxii, 375, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. 1st edition thus (NCBEL III, 848). ix, [1 (blank)], 307, [1] pp (including Index). 58 woodcut illustrations. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & a graphic in black to front board. More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, (n. d.). Circa 1917. 183 pp. 8 inserted color plates by F. M. B. Blaikie. 8vo (6" x 8"). Brown paper wrapped boards with color printed paper onlay to front board. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1970). 192 pp, illustrated, Sm 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. A look at Dickens' public readings. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-65. 1st edition (Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 345 - 370). 20 parts in 19. Some advert variances (+/-) from that found listed in Hatton & Cleaver; specific collation supplied on request. Illustrated with 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Original green printed wrappers..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1926. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 791). xvi, 224 pp. Illustrated with plates & from b/w photographs. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1960. 1st edition. xxiv, 293, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow dust jacket. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1932). 1st edition. xii, 204, [8] pp (including Index). 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Dust jacket. "Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships, endowments, and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1919). Early, if not a first, printing. [8], 308 pp (including Index). Frontis of Dickens. Crown 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Buff printed dust jacket, with image of Gad's Hill Place to front panel. Uncommon in jacket. More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. (1871). Early printing (cf. Gimbel D63). 335, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Title page vignette. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's green decorative cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering and elaborate spine design. A collection of Dickens' scenes selected as "containing enough interest in itself..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1910. 1st US edition (bound with Scottish sheets). 376 pp. Frontis of Dickens (Maclise portrait) + 20 additional illustrations, 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering/decorations. An American visits England at the beginning of the 20th c., and records his thoughts..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1863. 1st edition thus (cf. Gimbel D38). 2 volumes (vi, [7] - 333, [5 (blank)]; vi, [7] - 338, [4 (blank)] pp). 'RP' in Volume II. Frontis by F. O. C. Darley in each volume. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's green cloth with gilt..... More
