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DICKENS, CHARLES. A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$94.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: [iv][4]5-15. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Full brown leather boards with blind stamp trim and decoration, marbled endpapers, and eleven illustrations by Hammatt Billings. Dickens told one of his biographers that as a child he used to wander at night about a churchyard near their home. And, this memory was the inspiration for his story. This is a very good copy with rubbing to the boards, a small bookplate on the front paste down. All but two of the illustrations have the original tissue guards.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. A Child's Dream of a Star. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. 1st American edition. Bound in full, embossed brown morocco. Top edge gilt. 15pp. with all 11 b&w plates. Tissue guards. Covers rubbed & edge-worn. Interior very good.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. A Child's Dream of a Star. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 12mo. Green cloth with beveled boards. Cover and spine titles in gilt, all edges gilt. Front cover pictorial in gilt of a child lying in bed with a shooting star overhead. All but one 1 of the 11 illustrations have tissue guards. Light rubbing at extremities. A nice copy. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. A Child's Dream of A Star. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1871. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. to near fine The First Edition. Original gilt rich pictorial green cloth with all edges gilt . The first separate edition of this tale published in book form, Originally published in 1850 as a selection in "Household Words", and again in 1858 in book form in the compliation "Reprinted Pieces." No contemporary English edition accompanied the American publication and it was not until 1899 that a separate book editio n was privately printed in Great Britain. Note, interior is fine and . Illustrated with 11 engravings by Hammatt Billings. A.e.g. Printed on rectos only, with all plates appearing on versos Charming Dickens tale for children
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: 15 pages text First Thus - first separate printing of this story that first appeared in Dicken's new weekly "Household Words" - 6 April 1850. Published in cloth, or full leather, this is the leather edition, but with some edgewear, particularly at the top of the spine (Images Available). Marbled endpapers, the front free-endpaper became attached ages ago, but is still present. Text pages are opposite illustrations. One tissue guard is torn, and another is lacking. good, full brown leather, AEG (hardcover) wear to leather
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full-Leather. The first separate edition of this tale published in book form, Originally published in 1850 as a selection in "Household Words", and again in 1858 in book form in the compliation "Reprinted Pieces." No contemporary English edition accompanied the American publication and it was not until 1899 that a separate book editio n was privately printed in Great Britain. Rebound in full red crushed morocco with double sets of gold rules and gilt floral decorations at corners. Elaborately gilt inner dentelles and new marbled en dpapers. Signed binding by BirdBall of Northhampton and London. Spine blackened and worn, with "C" in Child"s partially obscured. Illustrated with 11 engravings by Hammatt Billings. A.e.g. Printed on rectos only, with all plates appearing on versos of blank page. Original cloth cover and backstrip bound in at rear. A book usually prone to problems, but for wear to spine a fine copy in an otherwise elegant binding. Eckel p.186-7; Podeschi B203
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. A Child's Dream of a Star. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: 15 p. + 11 plates, illus. by Hammatt Billings Very good condition, original gren cloth faded in spots
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original Cloth. First Edition. The first separate edition of this tale published in book form, Originally published in 1850 as a selection in "Household Words", and again in 1858 in book form in the compliation "Reprinted Pieces." No contemporary English edition accompanied the American publication and it was not until 1899 that a separate book edition was privately printed in Great Britain. Bound in original terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gold. Cloth has one small nick on bevel of front board, else fine. Illustrated with 11 engravings by Hammatt Billings. A.e.g. Printed on rectos only, with all plates appearing on versos of blank page. Usually found in green cloth, this copy conforms to Podeschi's second copy, no priority. An attractive copy with cloth clean and gilt bright. Very good+. Eckel p.186-7; Podeschi B203
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.