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Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Price: US$22.10 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1855 edition on green cloth

Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles.. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall., 1850.

Price: US$23.40 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good. Publishers cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped decor`. A corner of the frontispiece is dampstained.

Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. American notes for general circulation. With a frontispiece by C. Stanfield.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Price: US$33.19 + shipping

Description: 8vo. xiii[iii], 175pp, frontis. Modern red cloth gilt, uncut, printed in double-columns. Cloth lightly soiled, frontis lightly browned with small marginal stain, random text age-browning, occasional marginal light pencil line or remark. Ex-library with usual evidence i.e. Dewey number to spine tail, book-plate to fpdep, round ink-stamp to title-page verso, very slight evidence of label removal from rpdep, and blind-stamps to prelims, plates and last leaves.

Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman & Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Chapman & Hall, London, 1850. Hard cover, marbled boards, half leather. marbled page edges. Covers have shelf wear, rubbed. Frontispiece by C.Stanfield. Some pages spotted. Sketches by BOZ. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #021163 e

Seller: Westwood Books, Cramlington, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. American notes for general circulation. By Charles Dickens; with a frontispiece by C. Stanfield, R.A.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$46.00 + shipping

Description: 2 p. l., ix-xiii p., 1 l., 175, [1] p. front. 19 cm. Very good condition, in 3/4 leather, top of front flyleaf clipped

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Frontis Illustration By C. Stanfield, R.A.. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$49.99 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Title page dated 1850. Early "Cheap" edition. Three quarter tan smooth leather over marbled boards. Leather heavily worn, front hinge weak but holding surprisingly well, text block sound, pages clean with foxing to the blanks at beginning and end, name and 1854 date in pencil on preliminary blank, armorial bookplate of Lawrason Riggs inside front cover. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman & Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$52.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New Preface by Dickens Hardback bound in half leather and marbled boards., Gilt spine with 5 raised bands and black leather title panel xiv, 175 pp. Frontispiece ( a bit foxed) Very Good- condition. Have a number of similar volumes in a part set (q.v.) They look very good on the shelf. Previous owner's name at top of title page and front end paper.

Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles & Stanfield, C ( Illustrator ). American Notes For General Circulation Cheap Peoples Edition. Chapman & Hall London, 1850.

Price: US$58.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition thus Cheap Edition. Two columns of text per page. 12mo. xiii + (1) + 175 + (1)pp. Bw engraved frontis by C Stanfield. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth covers, gilt lettering & wrought iron style decoration to spine. with gilt lettering. Original yellow eps with Publisher's list. Covers : slight shelf knocks bottom corners, slight rubs top/bottom of spine & top corners, faint finger mark rear else very clean. Few fox marks to prelims else very clean & tight. Bright attractive tight copy. VG.

Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles Frontispiece by C. Stanfield. American Notes for General Circulation. Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$58.51 + shipping

Description: , [5] x-xiii [1] 1-175 pages, illustrated frontispiece, main text in two column First Cheap Edition , cover shows wear at the extremities and along the joints, chips to head and tail of the spine with some loss, hinges are cracking, the contents are clean and the book is in good condition , half bound in calf and marbled paper, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands and a gilt titled red morocco label , octavo 18.5 x 12.5cm Hardback ISBN:

Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles.. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION.. (Printed by Bradbury and Evans for) Chapman and Hall, London: 1850., 1850.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: pp. xiii, 175 + Frontis by C. Stanfield. Text foxed. 185 mm. Original quarter leather with marbled boards binding. Spine perished. Boards worn. In January 1842, Charles Dickens set sail for a lecture tour in America, accompanied by his wife Catherine and her maid. In America he received a reception reminiscent of those that met mop-headed rock stars of the 1960's. Americans, expecting him to be grateful for their warm reception, were staggered when this young British goodwill ambassador, at a dinner held in his honor in Boston, dared to criticize them as copyright pirates. Though crowds began to get a bit angry, he did not back down. A week later, in Hartford, he argued that a native American literature would flourish only when American publishers were compelled by law to pay all writers their due, rather than being able to publish the works of any foreign author for free. He argued that it was a bad custom that only served to discourage literary production by American citizens. Before Dickens' visit the American people were generally uninterested in the question of the United States's joining the International Copyright Union. Book, newspaper, and magazine publishers, though, were utterly opposed, and successfully lobbied against any such move in Congress. Undaunted, Dickens circulated a pro-copyright letter which he and a number of other British writers had signed, firm in the belief of the righteousness of their cause. Dickens showed great courage but little tact in assailing American public opinion on this vexing matter while the United States was paying him honors worthy of a national liberator. That he had not mentioned this issue in advance meant that his adoring audiences, taken by surprise, felt chagrined by the criticisms of this obviously mercenary young upstart who had come to their shores to take their money at the theater door and again in the bookshop. The work itself concentrated on his (not always positive) impressions of American life. Of particularly interest are those aspects of social welfare which he took a reformer's interest in, such as the prison system, or care for people with disabilities like blindness. He also was lavish in his stinging condemnation of slavery. TRAVEL BX 5 0.0

Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.

DICKENS Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman & Hall 1850 (reprint), 1850.

Price: US$78.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: contemporary half-leather over cloth, raised bands, lavishly decorated in gilt, frontispiece by C(larkson) Stanfield, marbled edges, printed double column, very good, a handsome copy. first published in two volumes 1842; 175 pages

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

DICKENS Charles 1812-1870. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London: 186, Strand, 1850.

Price: US$78.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: In contemporary half calf over worn brown marbled boards, corners & edges bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, worn, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (x-xiii), [1], [1], 2-175 pp, watermarks to frontis, upper joint cracked, printed by Bradbury and Evans, the Cheap Edition. (180*117 mm).

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$78.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Edges have only minor shelf wear, good solid bind. Contemporary PDs, mild foxing to fep. PP clean and tidy Size: 8vo 0.0

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing of the cheap edition, for Dickens first complete works, with a new preface penned by the author and dated June 22, 1850. Olive green blindstamped cloth with elaborately gilt spine. Frontispiece by C Stanfield. Printed in double column format. Fronitispiece badly foxed, else interior quite clean. No name or book plate. Green cloth toned to light brown at edges and backstrip; spine slightly cocked. Overall a nice copy of Dickens recollections of his first American sojourn. First published in 1842, AMERICAN NOTES was a harsh travel narrative, condemning much that Dicken's found wanting in the New World, from the state of rail travel to the rather uncouth habit of spitting. Its reception by American critics was quite unfavorable and it gave rise to many parodies by American author's who took umbrage to its tone and content. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). American notes for general circulation / by Charles Dickens; with a frontispiece by C. Stanfield. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Price: US$111.15 + shipping

Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt blocked title to spine with raised bands. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 175p. Subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. American notes. Slavery United States. Manners and customs. Travel. United States Description and travel. United States Social life and customs. Canada Description and travel. Genre: Travel literature. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

DICKENS. CHARLES.. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION.. Chapman and Hall. London. 1850, 1850.

Price: US$123.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. One volume. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield. Publishers green cloth with elaborate blind stamped decoration on boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Circular fade marks to front board where the green has lightened. Coated yellow endpapers with publishers adverts. Small book label of Irish Bookshop, Moore's of Cork to front paste down endpaper. Some minor rubbing to binding and edges a bit bumped but overall a very good copy.:

Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). American notes for general circulation / by Charles Dickens; with a frontispiece by C. Stanfield. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Price: US$130.00 + shipping

Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt blocked title to spine with raised bands. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 175p. Subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. American notes. Slavery United States. Manners and customs. Travel. United States Description and travel. United States Social life and customs. Canada Description and travel. Genre: Travel literature. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

DICKENS, CHARLES.. American Notes For General Circulation.. London; Chapman and Hall; 1850., 1850.

Price: US$130.87 + shipping

Description: First Single Volume Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. xiv, 178; wood-engraved frontispiece by C. Stanfield, text in double columns, original half leather binding, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, covers worn institional sticker on front fixed endpaper, endpapers stained, two closed marginal tears to frontispiece, front hinge weak, only a fair copy. Dickens tour takes in Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St Louis, also Canada, traveling by train and steam-boat.

Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia

Charles Dickens. Sketches by Boz [&] American Notes. First "Cheap" edition London, 1850 in old half black morocco & marbled boards.. London: Chapman and Hall,, 1850.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First cheap edition, foolscap 8vo (7” x 4 3/4”), pp. xiv, (1), 303, (1) blank; xiii, (3), 175, (1) printer's device, printed in double columns, engraved frontispieces by George Cruikshank & C. Stansfield. Old half black calf & marbled boards, back in five compartments, gilt titled in the second, four gilt roll tooled raised bands. Near fine clean copy. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H9449 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.

Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES (Near Fine Example of the First "Cheap" Edition in Original Cloth). Chapman & Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES. Frontispiece by C. Stanfield. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. Original blind-stamped green publisher's cloth with spines elaborately decorated in gilt. First "Cheap" Edition (actually volume 7 of the first and most important collected works of Dickens, with a new 2pp introduction and a specially commissioned new frontispiece). Begun in 1847 with writings already published, Dickens added further titles to his "works" as he went along. Despite being called "cheap" -- these volumes are just as high quality in texture and ornamentation as his first editions; there are 18 titles in total, we've never seen a complete set in fine original condition and individual volumes in collector's condition are scarce. NEAR FINE, spine a trifle browned (as almost always with this olive-green cloth), minor wear to the extremities, bright gilt, and excellent eye appeal. It would hard to find a better example of this traditionally, yet inexplicably, undervalued volume from Dickens's carefully-designed, newly prefaced and illustrated, first collection of his works.

Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.

DICKENS. CHARLES.. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION.. Chapman and Hall. London. 1850, 1850.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines and floral centre pieces, all in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Plain brown endpapers with a small book label of Mills Bookshop of London to the rear paste down endpaper. Some minor rubbing to binding and edges a bit bumped but overall a very good copy.

Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom

DICKENS Charles 1812-1870. American Notes, Sketches By Boz and Christmas Books.. Chapman and Hall, London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand., 1850.

Price: US$201.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Cheap Edition, 1st Series, VG 1850, 1850, 1852. In red half calf, marbled boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, edges bumped and worn, title in gilt to black calf label, joints worn. Internally, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled in red and blue, some light foxing to front and rear blanks. 3 stories each with a plate from the Cheap edition, 1st issue bound in 1, all printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. (179*123 mm). American notes for General Circulation, 1850, frontis by T Bolton, (v-xiii), [1], 175 pp, 1 pl, [1]. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank, Chapman and Hall, 1850, (v-xiv), [2], 303 pp, 1 pl, . Christmas Books, Chapman and Hall, 1852, frontispiece by John Leech, [4], 266 pp, which contains The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Heath, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. A lovely book with a great feel to it. Uncommon! (see Eckel 113, 15, 116, 121, 125, 127 & 131 for info) American notes was written in 1842 upon Dickens's first return from the US. With regard to Sketches by Boz, Dickens stated that his share was only £400 whilst his publisher made 10 times that amount! Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist see ODNB for a full Bio.

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cheap edition, but first edition thus, with a new "Preface to the Cheap Edition" by Dickens. Octavo. 175pp. Yellow endpapers. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt. Bookplate of a noted African-American collector, small nicks and tears, at the crown, foxing mostly on frontispiece and titlepage, very slight wear at the crown, a handsome very good copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].. American Notes For General Circulation.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850., 1850.

Price: US$277.50 + shipping

Description: 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [vii]-xiii, 175, [1]. text in double columns. wood-engraved frontis. by C.Stanfield. untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth (spotted & frayed, spine ends chipped, some light foxing, short tears to outer margin of last 2 leaves – no loss). At the time of publication, Dickens’ book elicited considerable criticism, largely because of his remarks concerning slavery and American manners. In the new preface to this edition, he apologizes for any offence his book may have caused to his American friends, and maintains that, if anything, he was in fact rather prejudiced in their favour than otherwise. On his tour, he visited Boston, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Richmond, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. Chapter XV II (pp. 140-152) relates largely to Canada: Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and St. John’s (St. Jean, Quebec). Clark III 151 (6). Sabin 19996. Vander Poel B482(1). cfHowes D-316.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cheap edition, but first edition thus, with a new "Preface to the Cheap Edition" by Dickens. Octavo. 175pp. Yellow endpapers. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind, spine elaborately gilt. Spine a little sunned, foxing mostly on frontispiece and titlepage, very slight wear at the crown, a handsome very good or better copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In this travelogue, Dickens doesn't hold back his critique of American society. His humorous dedication reads: "I dedicate this book to those friends of mine in america, who, giving me a welcome I must ever gratefully and proudly remember, left my judgment free; and who, loving their country, can bear the truth, when it is told good humouredly, and in a kind spirit." 7 ¾" x 5". Later "cheap edition", 1850. Green cloth boards with stamped decoration to covers and gilt titles/decoration to spine. Advertisement, half-title, frontispiece, full-title, copyright, dedication, [ix]-x preface, [xi]-xiii contents, section title page, 1-175, copyright. Condition: Sunned to pale green-brown at spine and ½ border of front cover. Tiny stains and spots of discoloration to boards. Occasional smudge to pages including frontispiece. No evidence of damp-staining or foxing. Text is clean and unmarked.

Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, London, 1850.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine copy, without fading to the spine: lettering and cloth bright. New Introduction and frontispiece appear here for the first time. In small letters in the center of the upper cover; "The Works of Charles Dickens".

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Dickens Charles. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. London Chapman and Hall 1850, 1850.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Description: First single volume edition. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, handsomely bound in a contemporary Victorian binding of gilt-bordered three-quarter crushed green morocco over marbled boards with marbled endleaves, spine lettered in gilt and in compartments separated by gilt-decorated wide raised bands. xiii, 175. A fine and handsome copy, very nicely preserved copy with only the lightest mellowing to the spine pane. Internally very bright and clean with no foxing, unusual for this period. Dickens’s rendering of his journeys in America. He went as far West as St. Louis and describes the people and characteristics of many of the cities and towns along the way including Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Cincinnati. An especially nice copy of this printing.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles.. American Notes for General Circulation.. London, Chapman and Hall., 1850.

Price: US$833.66 + shipping

Description: First single-volume edition. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher's advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition. Includes for example the following essays: An American Railroad / Lowell and it's Factory System / New York / Philadelphia, and it's Solitary Prison / Slavery / Worcester - The Connecticut River - Hartford - New Haven - To New York / Boston / Washington - The Legislature and the President's House / A Night Steamer on the Potomac River - Virginia Road and a Black Driver / Richmond - Baltimore - The Harrisburg Mail and a Glimpse of the City [of Harrisburg] / A Canal Boat [Steamboat Trip] / Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy and its Passengers / From Pittsburgh to Cincinnatti in a Western Steam- Boat [describes Charles Dickens' Trip in the year 1842, aboard the Steamboat "Messenger", from Pittsburgh to Cincinnatti] / Journey to Pittsburgh across the Alleghany Mountains / From Cincinnatti to Louisville in another Western Steam-Boat; and from Louisville to St.Louis in another / A Jaunto to the Looking-Glass Prairie and back / Return to Cincinnatti - A Stage-Coach ride from that city to Columbus and thence to Sandusky - so, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara / In Canada - Toronto - Kingston - Montreal - Quebec - St.John's / in the United States again / Lebanon [Mount Lebanon - Shaker - Society - New York] / The Shaker - Village and West Point / Sprache: english.

Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland