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Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [ix], 155 pp. Half green calf over marbled boards with raised bands, gilt lettering and devices to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine slightly darkened and a little wear to bottom of front joint and around edges. Ink inscription to ffep. dated 1909, otherwise internally clean. A very nice little copy with a colour illustrated frontispiece and title page. The second of Dickens' 'Christmas books' after 'A Christmas Carol'. 16mo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. London Chapman & Hall 1899., 1899.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: VG. Signed by Dickens' great great grandson.Half dark green leather with marbled boards. Edge wear, nick on spine. Owner name fep. Nice Christmas present. Signed by Gerald Charles Dickens on 11/29/02 after his performance of "A Child's Journey with Dickens" in Buxton, Maine. The story written by Kate Douglas Wiggin was about her childhood meeting with Dickens on a train in 1868 while he was touring and lecturing in the U.S. Illustrated by Frontis.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce collected edition of Dicken's Christmas books. 12mo., 5 volumes, original three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece and vignette title in color to each volume. In near fine condition. A scarce edition of Dickens' classic work. A Christmas Carol "may readily be called the Bible of Christmas. It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day. The number of reprintings have been so many that all attempts at the figures have been futile. Altogether 24 editions were issued in the original format" (Eckel, 110). "It was a work written at the height of Dickensâ great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor" (John Mortimer). "Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks, [A Christmas Carol] was the first of Dickensâ Christmas books (a new literary genre thus created incidentally) it was an extraordinary achievementâ"the one great Christmas myth of modern literature."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.