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Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: Third UK Edition.Volume 1 only of 2. In fine calf binding. Account of the author's journey across America. Not illustrated In good condition. Missing bottom of spine and title label. Front cover weak. Viscount Birkenhead bookplate otherwise no inscriptions or markings(two notes on contents page with add. Paper in excellent condition
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK hardback from 1842. Stated 4th edition. Good+ copy in solid original blindstamped brown cloth with light wear. Nice advert for forthcoming work in January 1843 opposite half-title. Some light spotting.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles:. American Notes For General Circulation. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Chapman and Hall, 1842.
Price: US$67.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1842. Chapman and Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Ex Libris.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. American Notes For General Circulation. Bernh, Tauchnitz Jun, Leipzig, 1842.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Text in English. 12mo. Pp. [iii], viii, [3], 4-310. Bound in original half brown leather over brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped on spine that has five raised bands. Contemporary owner's pencil signatures on front free endpaper. Front hinge starting, but just barely. Sporadic foxing throughout, heavy on preliminaries. Corners a bit worn, but presentable. Published the same year as the first edition (London, October 1842). As with that Chapman and Hall first edition described by Eckels, the first numbered page is not preceded by numerical sense: In the Chapman and Hall edition, a planned introduction by Dickens was struck just prior to printing, and pagination was not changed. Thus, the first numbered page is XVI (being the last page of contents). (In the second printing, the error was corrected.)In this Leipzig edition, the first numbered page is VIII, which is the second page of "Contents." Preceding pages include the dedicatory page followed by [blank] and the first page of "Contents." Thus, three pages, rather than the seven suggested by pagination. That leads to the supposition that an introduction to this edition was also scrapped.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. , 1842.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2nd ed. 2 Vols. viii,308; vii,306 pp. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Cloth lightly sunned, some wear to spine ends, small amount of faint scattered foxing, inner hinge of Vol. Two just starting, else very good. Dickens travelled to America in 1842. He wrote about the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, the prison system in Philadelphia, and slavery in the southern states. His negative impressions of the United States were also reflected in the American episodes of his next novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. HOWES D-316.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Second edition. V1: front hinge cracked, cloth stained, corners bumped, spine ends chipped. Bookplate, some foxing. V2: cloth stained, corners/edges bumped, spine ends chipped, slight cant, bookplate, minor foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398, pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman & Hall, London, 1842.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Skewed, some slight staining to covers, lettering retaining some brightness. Third Edition in original cloth.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol. Chapman and Hall, 1842.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes bound in leather. Covers shelfworn, with volume one's corner peeling off the board. Bookplate inside front covers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii 308p; vii 306p (plus 4p adverts, un-cut), original blindstamped cloth, corners a little bumped, cloth a little soiled and worn, spine lettering well gilt, volumes rather slanted from use, some light soiling to a few pages, inner hinges soft and yielding, very original. Free back endpapers removed for both volumes, front endpapers with library bookplate, no additional stamps or names, Vol 2 after last page of text and before publisher's advert we see a stub indicating the first page of adverts removed. Has publisher's advert at the beginning of vol 1. New endpapers and some support for sewing may be appropriate and could remove library marking, even if 3 of 4 cloth hinges are still in good order Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second edition. Two volumes. 308; 306, 6 pp. Hardcovers, bound in embossed brown cloth. Edge-wear, the spines frayed at the ends, and the cloth partially split along the joint. The text with occasional light foxing, generally unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. American Notes For General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1842.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Bound in the original, blind stamped cloth boards. Volume one has been professionally and imperceptibly rebacked and both volumes are now in very good condition. Both are protected under removable acetate jackets. Both are clean and tight and without names inscriptions or other marks. Small octavo. Complete with half-titles, advert leaves, original lemon-yellow endpapers and all as called-for.
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$308.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 3o8, 306 + adv. Bound in publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt stamping on the spine. Cloth worn at the extremities of the spine, a very good clean copy. A travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation, 2 Volumes. Chapman & Hall, London, 1842.
Price: US$316.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes; 308 and 306 pages. Pages are in very good condition with occasional light foxing and stains. Edges and endpapers marbled. Volume 2 is missing the top 1/4 of the half-title page. Half bound with green leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles, decoration and 5 raised bands on the spines. Very little wear on the spines; they have faded to green. Corners bumped and frayed. All the boards are quite badly scuffed. Scarce. GOOD
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1842 1st edition, 1st issue (verso of "Contents" leaf incorrectly numbered "XVI"), in 2 vols. Both volumes solid and VG in their custom 3/4 dark morocco over marbled boards (a handsome "Tout" binding). Tasteful bookplates at each first blank endpaper, light wear to the outer hinges, light scuffing and rubbing along the panels. 12mos, top-edges gilt.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$751.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp: xvi[2] [1]-308; vii[1][3]4-306 [6]. Two volumes uniformly bound in half dark blue leather over marbled boards. There is a red title piece, raised bands, and gilt trim and lettering on the spines. The fore-edge and bottom edge are rough cut. New endpapers have been added. All edges have some soiling. The first volume is the first edition. However, the second volume is marked 'SECOND EDITION' on the title page.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii), 308; (viii), 306, (6) pp., a few gatherings unopened. Publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early armorial bookplate of a Henry Birkbeck to the front pastedowns and his lightly pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I, the discreet contemporary ticket of the bookseller Fletcher of Norwich to the front of the same volume. Some fading to the spine, a very small superficial split to the cloth at foot of the lower joint of volume I, though it remains sounds and the set is very good overall. The result of a four month lecture tour of the States and Canada during which Dickens' opinions of the new world fell steadily. On his return it proved popular on this side of the Atlantic while American reviews were unanimously hostile, Emerson noting "Truth is not his object for a single instant.". Dickens composed a mollifying Preface which was removed at the last minute and not published until after his death. In it he states "I went there expecting greater things than I found. Coming home with a corrected and sobered judgement, I consider myself no less bound to do justice to what. I found to be the truth". Smith, II, 3.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1842.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 2 volumes. Original brown gilt cloth, top of spine in volume one chipped, the other fine, inner joints tender on both volumes, the gilt on both spines are very good, square clean set of the first issue of this famous travel book on America, includes his essay and critique of Slavery. overall a very good pretty set. there is an armorial book plate in volume one.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
. Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. , 1842.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. Two volumes. 8vo., 20 x 12.5 cm. Original publisher's reddish-brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers stamped in blind with minor stains, corners very lightly bumped shine lightly faded, very minor evidence of peeling. Generally, a near fine and bright set. Contemporary ink inscription of J. H. H. Foley to front yellow paste-down, some light foxing. Housed in a cloth slipcase, slightly worn to morocco bands. First edition, first state with second Contents page in volume 1 mis-numbered "xvi" (owing to a last minute decision to pull the preface, ) and 6pp. of advertisements at the end of volume 2. Not common in commerce in bright condition
Seller: Adam Weinberger Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. American Notes for General Circulation.. Chapman & Hall. 1842, 1842.
Price: US$1693.91 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 2 vols. Half titles, initial ad. leaf vol. I, 6pp ads vol. II. Orig. purple-brown cloth, boards dec. in blind, spine dec. in blind & lettered in gilt; spines a little faded & with sl. wear to head & tail. A good-plus copy as originally issued. Smith II, 3; the variant binding. Dickens's musings on America and its people, 'Dedicated to 'those friends of mine in America. who. can bear the truth, when it is told good humouredly, and in a kind spirit'. The first issue, with the second page of Contents misnumbered 'xvi'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. Two volumes. Original light brown fine-grained cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design on both covers and spine, gilt lettering on spine, smooth yellow endsheets. 308pp; 306pp; 6 page publisher's prospectus at end. A superb copy in original cloth with slight sunning, else fine with cloth clean and crisp, gilt on covers bright, and all hinges fully intact. Scarce thus.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London,, 1842.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. First edition. Hardcovers, bound in full morocco with gilt illustrations of ladies in period dress front and back, top edges gilt, and inner gilt dentelles by Riviere & Son, original cloth covers and backstrips bound inside. Light edge-wear; bookplates; a notation and some spotting on the preliminary blanks.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London:, 1842.
Price: US$2035.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First State with the preliminary pages of volume I misnumbered. Smith Part II. 3 - this copy with the variant binding of vertically ribbed cloth.Original Leighton & Eeles cloth binding with their ticket in volume I. Uncut and housed in a 1/2 leather slipcase. Moderate wear and minor foxing and soiling but an exceptionally fresh and sound copy. Size: 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES For General Circulation. Chapman & Hall, 1842.
Price: US$2887.35 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with blind stamped decorations indicative of Smith's variant binding. Vol I in the first state with page X miss-numbered XVI. A near fine copy, with bright covers and a little fading to the spine. A little abrasion to the rear endpaper of the first volume. Housed in quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Smith II 3
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. , 1842.
Price: US$3300.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Original embossed cloth, housed in custom cloth slipcase. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2 Vols. First edition, first issue. HOWES D-316. Eckel, p.108. Smith II:3. Dickens' reactions to his visit badly affected his relations with American readers for some time. Of Philadelphia, he wrote, "It is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street." Spines very slightly sunned, early ownership signatures on title pages, else near fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.