[London]: 1840. SIGNED by Lover. Small bifolium. 12 lines, plus close & signature. With typed transcription. 4-3/8" x 3-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Samuel Lover, also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, perhaps best known today..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 806 Chestnut Street, (1859). 1st US book edition, first issue, [possible] later state (?), cf Smith AMERICAN 12, especially note 5 where Smith notes their possible earlier release date than December 5th). [2], [19] - 211, [13] pp. Text double column. 2 pages of..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, Bouverie Street, 1852. 1st Printing. Pp. 129 - 160, Chapters XIV - XVI. July 1852 advertiser at front, adverts at rear. 2 plates at front. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Original blue printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Avon CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. 1st edition thus. SIGNED / Limited edtion, #376 / 2000 cc. xv, [3], 272, [2] pp. Illustrated by Raymond Houlihan. 8vo. 10" x 6-7/8". Tan quarter leather binding with pictorial boards. Slipcase. More
Boston: Redding & Co., 8 State Street, 1847. 1st US Edition thus, i.e., by this publsher (Smith 7, pp. 102). Not in Gimbel. 48 pp. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6". Printed salmon-colored paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A rare contemporaneous edition of this Dickens' Christmas title..... More
[London]: Published by A. & F Pears Ltd, [1912]. Ca 1912 (cf. Gimbel B155 [Chimes]; B165 [Cricket]; B179 [Battle of Life]; B186 [Haunted Man]; Hearn, p. 178 for the set). 5 volumes (139, [1]; 147, [1]; 160; 144; 140 pp). Adverts begin & conclude each volume. 'Cricket' illustrated by L...... More
Leipzig: Frederick Fleischer, 1839 - 1840. 1st Collected Edition of Dickens' works. Not in Gimbel. 6 volumes [Pickwick, 2v; OT; Nickleby, 2v, Sketches]. Each volume [except Vol I, Pickwick] with a 'Works' t.p. as well as an individual t.p. Vol I with frontis, the Macready portrait. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/8"..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883. Later edition. 124 pp. Engraved t.p. Facsimile letter as frontispiece. 5-7/8" x 4-1/8". Green publisher's cloth binding with gilt lettering. Red edgestain. "Adah Isaacs Menken was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 1st US edition. 392 pp. Bound with UK sheets. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. Wright one of the first to look at Dickens' private life in a public forum. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Cheap edition. First published in this format in 1864 (cf. Caldwell. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, p. lxv; NCBEL III, 805 [incorrecting listing 1863]). Not in Gimbel, though see D5, for other titles in issued in the 'Cheap Edition' format. [2], 268 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece after..... More
![The FAT BOY From DICKENS. Illustrated by Thos. Nast. [Cover title]. Charles . Nast Dickens,...](/pictures/thumb/5491.3.jpg?v=1585432385)
New York: McLoughlin Bros. (n. d.). Ca 1873. 10 pages of text, including inner wrappers. 16 wood engravings by Nast, 6 full page, rendered in chromolithography. 8vo. 10-5/8" x 9"-1/8. Printed stiff-stock yellow paper wrappers, printed in red, green & black via chromolithography. Advert for 'Big Picture Books' & "Standard..... More
London: 1867. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 813; Parrish, pp. 66-67). 48 pp. Text double column. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-1/2". Blue printed paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A collaborative effort by these two pre-eminent Victorian authors [cf. Oppenlander, p. 196, for a distribution of same]... More
London: 1864. 1st edition. 48 pp. Inserted at front, a 4 page advert, printed on blue paper. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Blue printed wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dickens wrote Parts I & VII; see Oppenlander, p. 150, for specific contributions of the other authors... More
London: 1862. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 813). 48 pp. 8vo. Original printed paper self-wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: Published by Redding & Co., 8 State Street, 1846. 1st US Edition thus, i.e., by this publsher (Smith 5, pp. 69-70). 39, [1] pp. Text double column. P. 40 an advert for other titles available from Redding & Co., with the rear wrapper advertising, with a woodcut, Eugene Sue's..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1859 - 1868. 1st volume edition. 20 volumes, complete. ~600 pages per volume. Text double column. Christmas Stories included: Vol 2 with "The Haunted House," Vol 6 has "Tom Tiddler's Ground," Vol 8 has "Somebody's Luggage," & Vol 10 has "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" (Vol 4 lacks..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1840 - 1841. 1st edition (Eckel, pp. 67- 70; Smith I, p. 47). 3 volumes (306; 306; 426 pp). Vol I with MHC (weekly numbers) publicaton prospectus tipped-in at front. Frontis in each volume & 195 intratextual woodcut illustrations [primarily] by Phiz and George Cattermole. Bound..... More
New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1845. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher (Edgar & Vail, p. 22; Gimbel A87 [second copy]; VanderPoel B389(1) [stating the Harper as the 2nd US edition]; Wilkins, p. 38). 31, [1 (blank)] pp (text double column). T.p. state w/o..... More
London: Chiswick Press, 1918. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 827). 31 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. More
London: All The Year Round, 1868 - 1869. 1st appearance. 1st published in book form in 1869. Not in Sadleir, nor Wolff. Divers paginations. Masthead engraving to each issue. 8vo. Bespoke blue quarter leather binding over blue pebbled cloth boards. Maroon leather title label to spine. Pale yellow eps. Yates'..... More
London: George Redway, 1899. 2nd edition (same year as first). xvi, 256 pp. B&W illustrations. 4to. Original green cloth binding. More
![CARTE De VISITE [CDV] PHOTOGRAPH [Albumen]. Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870](/pictures/thumb/48090.jpg?v=1576280171)
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1870s. Recto with Dickens name printed under the photograph. Verso blank. 10 cm x 6 cm. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
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
