Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$62.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Includes Both Volumes. Both copies are well worn with previous owner's name on front end paper, hinges intact, interior pages tanned with some foxing and some stains, but mostly clean. Significant wear to spine ends on both volumes as well as corners. More images upon request. Z1
Seller: Prestonshire Books, IOBA, Appleton, WI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. A Child's History of England [2 volumes]. Boston. Jenks, Hickling, and Swan, 1854.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on the spine. 332 and 355 pages.19th century owner's small bookplate on inside front covers, A.S. Wright, with her signature beneath, dated 1875. Small chips to crown of spines of both volumes. Good clean copies in tight original bindings. A rare American printing of this (sadly) seldom read Dickens masterpiece. Please feel free to email to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: Presumed first edition thus (no additional printings listed) , and the second American edition. Original pebbled brown blindstamped decorative cloth, stamped gilt lettering and pictorial (crown, floral motif, and knight) spine, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, 355 pp, no illustrations. Volume II (of two) ONLY. Hardcover, very good. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, 2 inch tear on rear joint, a few approximately 1/8th to 1/4 inch nicks at head and foot of spine, bit of foxing along edges of textblock, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Children's; history; Victorian.
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. [in Two Volumes.]. , 1854.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: Jenks, Hickling & Swan, 1854. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. Early American edition, just possibly the first complete one. Since Harper published the two volumes of its edition separately in March 1853 and in March 1854 (so dated on the title pages), it is considered to be the first American edition. The date in 1854 when these two Boston volumes were published is unknown, so it is possible that this two-volume Boston edition came out earlier in 1854 than Harper's second volume. Jenks Hickling & Swan was a very "fluid" enterprise at the time, such that their 1856 and 1857 two-volumes-in-one printings would be by Hickling Swan & Brown, and their 1861 two-in-one printing would be by Swan Brewer & Tileston. This set is in very good-plus condition (a few small holes in the cloth, mainly at extremities or at joints); the gilt on the spines is unusually bright. Smith pp 116-119; Carr (UTexas) B500 (in blue cloth); not cited by Podeschi. Provenance: both front free endpapers bear not only a contemporary signature, but also the penciled signature of Dickens bibliographer Walter Smith; in fact, this very copy is the one pictured on pages 117 and 118 of his book.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition thus, by this publisher. Two volumes. 12mos. pp. 332; 355. Publisher's decorative cloth stamped in blind on both covers, gilt spines. Contemporary owner's name in light pencil on front free endpapers, and later owner's name in pencil on front fly leaves. The boards are moderately rubbed with shallow wear at head and tail of spines, endpapers are toned and lightly foxed, small stain at bottom edge of first few leaves of volume one only, a very good set overall. An attractive set of the Boston edition, likely preceded by the New York edition published by Harper & Brothers. Not in *Gimbel*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.