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Price: US$49.33 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine lacking; front board detached. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 624 pp., 39 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. Bleak House. England Social life and customs 19th century ; Fiction. Young women. Guardian and ward. Illegitimate children. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Dated 1853. Published by Bradbury and Evans. Its edition. Volume 2 only. In poor condition. In need of rebinding. Soiling to first few pages. All other pages and illustrations are good. Please see pictures. Front board detached from book. Page block binding good. Some writing in pencil to reverse on frontispiece. A good copy to be rebound or married up with a spare Vol 1. Pages start at 289 and ends at 624. All complete internally. Please see pictures. More on request. Any question, please dont hesitate to ask.
Seller: JS Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published in London in 1853, this is the First Edition of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens, bound in red cloth titled in gilt, just under 9 inches tall, 624 pages with illustrations by H. K. Browne. The cloth is noticeably marked and is not stuck down fully on back board and lifts when book is opened, fraying to cloth at spine ends, the usual foxing and occasional offsetting to some of the plates, most plates have foxing to them, marks to a few text pages else in good general condition.
Seller: Andrew Cox PBFA, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 624 Seiten Das Buch befindet sich in einem optisch, als auch zustandsmäßig guten und sauberen Zustand. Der Einband ist am Rand leicht berieben, nicht übermäßig. Optisch gut erhalten. Die Schnittkanten sind glatt, sauber und ohne nennenswerte Schäden. Buchgelenk vorn etwas aufgebrochen, Buch aber fest gebunden. Seiten komplett sauber, ohne Eintragunge. Seiten leicht lichtrandig, leicht gebräunt. Das Buch enthält auf Seite XVI am unteren Rand die ERRATA mit 5 Zeilen, Seite 275 in Zeile 22 das Wort "Counsinship". Seite 453 bis 460 ist nicht korrekt geschnitten. Am unteren Rand fehlt ein Streifen, falsch geschnitten. Das Buch enthält, neben dem Titelblattbild und dem Bild auf der Rückseite der 2ten Seite, genau 38 Bilder / Stiche. Rik080308 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500
Seller: Bookstore-Online, Mattsies, Germany
DICKENS, CHARLES & BROWNE, H. K. (Illus). Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans 1853, 1853.
Price: US$182.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, book has first issue points- p.xvi has five line errata, p.19 line 23- 'chair', p275 line 22- 'cousinshp', p.529 line 32- 'preter', super octavo, marbled half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to spine with gilt & blind rule to raised bands, marbled page edges & eps, xvi + 624pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & extrems with moderate surface loss, 2cm cracks to top of spine/hinges, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, moderate fading & tanning to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters, elegant gift inscription in ink to prelims, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, varying degrees of foxing to pages throughout, 3cm closed tear to lower edge of ffep at gutter)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 8vo. Pp xvi, 626. Frontis, engraved & printed title pages and 38 plates. Half roan over marbled boards. Boards just about holding. Plates generally clean and showing limited foxing. A copy (complete) for restoration/rebinding.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition Octavo hardback Half leather with gilt tooled spine (five raised bands( marbled boards xvi + 624 pages 40 plates (inscuding the frontispiece and title page) The plates are quite badly foxed though the rest of the book is in Good condition No inscriptions
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1853. First Edition. 624 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Contains black and white illustrated plates by H K Browne, all present. Both boards completely detached, but still present. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Pages remain firmly bound together. Pages are noticeably tanned with visible foxing throughout. More pronounced to edges and to plates. Water markings to text block edges. Text is unaffected. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards are completely detached from text block with loss to edges and noticeable wear. Spine strip attached to rear board. Leather peeling noticeably to all surfaces. Scuffing with marks and scratches to paper covering both boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$199.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii-xvi, 624pp; random light foxing; frontispiece; half bound, decorative spine, gilt title rubbed, marbled boards rubbed a little, edgewear, small tear near spine at front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$211.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition in book form of this Dickens novel with identifying points and plates by Browne as required. In generally good internal order, with text largely clean and bright. Spotting to plates as is common. Contemporary half leather binding much worn with front board detached, thus ripe for rebinding. 8vo. 624pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Illus. by H. K. Browne.. Bleak House.. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$211.34 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Illus. with b.w. plates, incl. frontis. and engr, title page. 8vo. half bound marbled bds. & fore-edges. Spine and bds. very rubbed, bookplate, occasional foxing, lacking 1 plate, else generally a good reading/reference copy.
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
DICKENS CHARLES. BLEAK HOUSE. LONDON BRADBURY AND EVANS, 1853.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, ELABORATE GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE. T.E.G. ILLUSTRATED BY H K BROWNE. SOME RUBBING TO THE LEATHER, FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. AND THE USUAL DARKENING TO THE EDGES OF THE PLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND. OVERALL VERY GOOD.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$236.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition 1853. Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Condition Good, heavy age toning and discolouration internally, especially on illustrations. Endpapers partially disconnected from boards. Wear on spine and marbled boards.
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles:. Bleak House. 2 Vols.. London: Bradbury & Evans 1853., 1853.
Price: US$241.18 + shipping
Description: X., 320/321-624,XI-XVI. Holzstichillustrationen auf 40 Taf. (inkl. Titel u. Front.) v. H. K. Browne. späterer HLdr. *Text teilweise gebräunt, Einbände leicht berieben*.
Seller: Antiquariat Bergische Bücherstube Mewes, Overath, Germany
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has red leather binding with marbled boards and red leather corner reinforcement. Rubbing and bumping to corners, edges and spine ends. Marbled feps and page ends. Heavy foxing to frontispiece, and foxing to illustrations throughout, to a greater or lesser degree. P/o inscription on title page, with date of 1887 A smashing copy. Please contact for images.
Seller: Compass Books, Devon, United Kingdom
Price: US$281.79 + shipping
Description: Hardback 8vo. approx 8.5 x 6 inches. Halfbound green polished calf with marbled paper to boards, gilt banding to spine with gilt lettered leather spine label. Grey endpapers. Speckled page edges. Deighton Binding. In very good condition. Some rubbing and bumps to spine, some rubbing to boards and corners / edges. Binders label to corner of front endpaper ?Deighton, Worcester.? Neat inscription to following prelim ?George Still Clifton, Ripple Rectory 1850.? There is some mild foxing to plates, but overall very clean and bright compared to most examples of this age, and many plates still remain very clean with only some minor spots around edges. Complete with issue points (see additional notes). Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 624pp. Illustrated Frontis., pict.hf.title & 38 B&W etched plates by H.K. Browne. With first issue points, as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6, 'chair' to page 209 line 23, 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22, and 'picter' to page 529 line 32.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$287.49 + shipping
Description: First edition with all points present. Marble paper covered boards with green half leather. Front joint starting. Significant rubbing to edges, surface wear to marbled papers. 5 false raised bands; red leather title label, with decorations in each of the other 5 panels. Some foxing. All illustrations present, including the dark illustrations.
Seller: The Book Merchant, LLC, Stillwater, OK, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES.. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; bound in contemporary half morocco and cloth; raised bands and gilt spine decoration; marbled edges and endpapers; some pages (especially plates) darkened; a good to very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first thirty-two chapters of the first book form printing of Charles Dickens' notable novel Bleak House. The first book edition, first printing with issue points according to Eckel 'elgble' to p.19 line 6; 'chair' instead of 'hair' to p.209 line 23; 'counsinship instead of cousinship' to pg.275 line 22. Other edition points inaccessible as the volume is bound in with chapters I-XXXII up to p.320 of 624pp. With the imprint of Bradbury and Evans on vignette title. No half title.Originally published in a series of twenty-episodes between 1852 and 1853. Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels, with a vastly complicated plot and an immense cast of characters revolving around the long-running case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in the Court of Chancery.This novel helped support a reform movement in the judiciary system that led to the enactment of legal reform in the 1870.With a frontispiece and additional vignette title page, as well as twenty plates, with only the frontispiece being a dark plate. Collated, complete as called for for the first thirty-two chapters.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, also known by his pen name "Phiz", English illustrator who illustrated ten of Charles Dickens' books, including 'David Copperfield', and 'Dombey and Son'. Rebound in half calf binding over marbled boards, with spine title on black calf. Externally sound with some shelf wear and minor rubbing to the boards, chipped to the extremities of the boards. With Library bookplate to the front pastedown. Previous ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered throughout. Occasional ownership inscriptions to the back of the occasional plate. With a frontispiece and additional vignette title page, as well as twenty plates, with only the frontispiece being a dark plate. Collated, complete as called for for the first thirty-two chapters. Some staining mark to the plate to face p. 2208 'The Smallweed Family.' Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury And Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, contemporary half calf, front hinge tender, top edge of just the Phiz plates dampstained a bit, some foxing, covers scuffed. Features the dark plates by H. K. Brown, a.k.a. Phiz. Also, shows side stab holes so this is a bound copy of the parts issue.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.80 + shipping
Description: 8°. 22 x 14 cm. XVI, 624 Seiten. Halblederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel auf schwarzem Lederschildchen, marmoriertem Bezugspapier und Farbschnitt. Erste Ausgabe. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Eckel, S. 79. Mit den 4 Druckfehlern: S. 19/6 "elgble", S. 209/23 "chair", S. 275/22 "cousinship", S. 529/32 "picter". Einband berieben, Leder stärker berieben und mit einigen Fehlstellen. Vorderer Innenfalz komplett eingerissen. Exlibris von H. M. Jackaman auf Innendeckel, dessen Namenseintrag verso Vorsatzblatt. Frontispiz und illustrierter Titel stärker gedunkelt. Eingebundene Tafeln an den Rändern gebräunt und braunfleckig, gegenüber stehende Textseiten jeweils mit Abklatsch. Blätter sonst kaum fleckig. Letzte Textseite und hinteres Vorsatzblatt stärker fleckig. Gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. With the 4 printing mistakes: p. 19/6 "elgble", p. 209/23 "chair", p. 275/22 "cousinship", p. 529/32 "picter". Half leather binding with gilt embossed title on spine, marbled cover paper and coloured edges. Cover rubbed, leather significantly rubbed and with missing parts. Inner fold teared completely one time. Armorial bookplate of H. M. Jackaman on inner cover, his name inscription verso endpaper. Frontispiece and illustrated title page significantly darkened. Plates darkened at the margins and with small spots, the opposed text pages each with a poor copy. Sheets rarely spotted. Last text page and endpaper spotted. Good copy. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$358.64 + shipping
Description: First Edition in book form previously published as a monthly serial. Handsomely bound in half green leather with green cloth boards and gilt titles to the spine. The binding although showing a little wear is in overall good condition. All edges of the text block are marbled. Previous owners' small pencil signature to the front free endpaper with pencil notation to the prelims. The pages are lightly toned with the occasional spot of foxing, heavy foxing to the plates, although generally clean throughout. pp. xvi 624. Overall a good copy. Widely acclaimed to be Charles Dickens greatest works.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. , 1853.
Price: US$380.47 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Thick 8vo. Contemp. half calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine. Marbled edges. (xvi, 624pp.). With engrv. frontispiece, additional engrv. title-page with vign., and 38 engrv. captioned full-page plates by H. K. Browne. The usual foxing mostly confined to the plates. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Recased binding retaining original spine and boards of green cloth with gilt lettering, blind stamped decoration and bands to spine, blind stamped decoration and borders to covers. Renewed endpapers. Additional etched title, pictorial frontispiece and Illustrations by H. K. Browne (39 plates total, all present as list). Top page edge dusty, page edges browned and spotted, previous owner s name in pencil to verso of frontispiece, plates oxidised and spotted, otherwise the book is in very good condition in fair condition, rubbed and unevenly faded covers. 1052
Seller: Jeremy's Books, Andover, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles; Hablot Knight Browne (Illustrator). BLEAK HOUSE. London; Bradbury And Evans, 1853.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: (FT) Half morocco and marbled boards. 8vo. XVI, 624 [38] pages. 23 cm. Illustrated with thirty eight leaves of plates. First edition. Gilt lettering and decorative designs on spine, marbled outer edges, engraved title page, each chapter contains two plates except no. 9 and 10, which contain one and three respectively. "[I]n Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own. [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities. Which had helped to provoke it in the first place, . Was even happy while he was writing it. It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, Dickens, pages 649-560) . Subjects: Young women -- Fiction. Guardian and ward -- Fiction. Illegitimate children -- Fiction. Inheritance and succession -- Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Legal stories. London (England) -- Fiction. Top backstrip torn at edges but intact. Signatures and binding in excellent condition. Slight foxing, especially around plates, throughout, and light soiling throughout. Very good + condition. (DREYFUS-5-12).
Seller: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in full brown polished calf by Root & Son, spine with raised bands, contrasting red and dark green morocco labels, and gilt floral tooling within gilt-tooled cpmpartments, covers bordered with triple gilt fillets and rosettes at corners; inner dentelles decorated in gilt with two repeating scrolls, one floral, the other geometric, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (light rubbing to spine and boards; light browning to text). First one-volume book issue (Podeschi A131); illustrated by H.K. Browne ('Phiz' ). 8vo xvi+624 pages.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, London, 1853.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, with several first issue points per Smith. Octavo. pp. [i-vii] viii-xvi, [1] 2-624. With the half-title leaf. Illustrated with 39 (of 40) engraved plates by H.K. Browne, including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. This copy lacks one engraved plate: ("Shadow"). Bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with red titling label, edges marbled. Contemporary small ownership signature in ink on the front fly leaf and in very light pencil on the engraved title page. Scattered rubbing and wear to the board edges and joints, scattered foxing, very good. *Smith*, (Part 1:10).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles 1812-1870. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London: 11, Bouverie Street, 1853.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G, 1st ed, 40 pls. In half calf over contemporary worn marbled boards, new tips. Re-spine, retaining the original, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf label, faded gilt tooling. Internally, frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1], 2-624 pp, 40 pls (inclusive of frontis & eng tp), bound without the half title, with 3 of the 4 first edition points, some foxing, torn corner to 1 pl,offsetting & light water stains, ink name to fep (JC Billington 1940), hinges strenghtened. (Folio, 132*214 mm), (Podeschi A31)
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
DICKENS, CHARLES. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$486.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: [vi]vii-xvi [1]2-624. FIRST EDITION. Bound in light brown half leather over marbled boards, all edges trimmed. The novel was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The first edition after the serial. Dickens uses this novel to satirize the British judicial system. Though the legal profession criticized Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. This is a very good, or better, copy of the first edition.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$493.13 + shipping
Description: Half title, front. & engr. title spotted, printed title, plates largely clean & fresh. Orig. olive green fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; carefully recased, spine faded & with some well-executed minor repairs, corners sl. bumped. Smith I, 10; the secondary binding, identical to the primary binding of Dombey and Son (with a chain-like design within triple-ruled borders). A later issue; the first edition sheets, but with undated engraved title.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Dickens' novel, with first issue points ("elgble" page 19; "chair" page 209; "counsinship" page 275), in a handsome later binding. Extra-illustrated with a portrait of Dickens by George Augustus Sala, etched by Pailthorpe, bound between the half title and the frontispiece. Toning to the edges of the plates, including Phiz's striking "dark plates". Front joint has been professionally repaired to address starting. Full dark blue levant morocco, gilt tooled, paneled back and wide gilt inner borders, silk doublures and fly-leaves, gilt edges. Tissue bound in to protect the plates. Small puncture to half title, repaired on the verso by a previous owner, with corresponding indentation fading over the following few pages. Gift inscription dated 1890 on title page. Half title, inserted plate and facing caption, frontispiece, illustrated title page dated 1853, title page with printers on verso, dedication, , preface, contents, list of plates with five line errata, [1]-624pp.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House with Illustrations by H K Browne. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 624p octavo, illustrated with all 40 plates by H K Browne. A fine copy in tan straight grain morocco with inner dentelles,all edges gilt. Contains the following first issue points 'elgble' p19 line 6, 'chair' p209 line 23, 'counsinship p275 line 22, 'picter' p529 line 32.Plus eratta on XVI. Plates are foxed as is common to this title. A lovely copy with 2 silk page markers. Rough removal of bookplate
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens, H. K. Browne (illstr). Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half-leather, brown, with gold stamped spine. Edges of cover and spine are rubbed, but binding is tight. Corners of boards are bumped. Several pages throughout have mild to moderate foxing.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 624 gilt edge pagers. Text VG with very few pages with water staining at the edges .Binding Good although front leather board is loose. Excellent rebinder edition.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition bound from parts, 8vo, frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, contemporary green half calf gilt, a little foxing and darkening throughout; good copy (LT141)
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. London Bradbury and Evans 1853, 1853.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set, handsomely bound in threequarter red calf and cloth boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and title label. Edges are bumped. Shoulders are worn, spines are a little damaged top and bottom with small tears. Boards have a couple of black spots, but generally very good. Binding is tight. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing, especially to the blank versos of the illustrations. Engravings by H K Browne. A very attractive first edition. 8vo.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London UK, 1853.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition of Bleak House bound from the parts into two volumes using the half title page as the title page to volume two. With 38 plates illustrations by H. K. Browne. Complete with all first issue points as per Smith 10 p81-83. Contemporary cloth with spine labels. Wear to the spines and boards with a section of loss of spine to volume one. Front piece and engraved title with significant spotting and spotting to the illustrations. Small stamp and ink signature dated 1856 to front free pages. 8vo 624pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
DICKENS CHARLES.-. Bleak House.. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853., 1853.
Price: US$548.13 + shipping
Description: In 8°, legatura coeva in m. pelle, dorso a nervetti, con ricchi fregi e tit. in oro (qq. abrasione alle cuffie e sulle cerniere, ma in buona conservazione); pp. XVI, 624 + 8, con 40 tavv. f. t. di H. K. Browne (Phiz). Rifioriture dovute alla qualità della carta, più marcate sui margini delle tavole incise. Esemplare completo di occhietto, antiporta, frontespizio inciso (che porta la dicitura "Bradbury & Evans") e frontespizio a stampa. Prima edizione. Da molti considerato uno dei capolavori dell'autore, rappresenta una feroce satira al sistema giuridico inglese.
Seller: Libreria Docet di Rabiti Loris, Bologna, BO, Italy
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$548.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Attractively bound as two volumes in contemporary half calf. No markings, the plates are a bit browned at the edges but overall a very good set.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Originally published in parts starting in March 1852; this is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Considered one of the greatest of Dickens works, it is a classic of English literature; a good case can be made to also consider it an early mystery; Hubin (119) includes it so. Marbled paper-covered boards with a green leather spine and tips.(now darkened to almost black); Titled on the spine in gilt, with seven gilt rules. 624 pages. Frontis illustration and 38 others within, including the ten "black plates," by H.K. Browne ("Phiz") All FE points are present. While this is a solid copy, there are issues to mention. Rubbed at the margins, heavily at the foot and head of the spine. The titling on the spine is readable, but faint. Page ends are dusty, and there is spotting and staining within, particularly around the plates. . First Edition. Quarter-Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H.K. Browne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. Typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6, 'elgble'; p.209, line 23, 'chair' instead of 'hair; and p.275, line 22, 'counsinship' instead of 'cousinship', p.529, line 32, 'picter' for 'picture'. Includes the half-title (often lacking). With 40 engraved illustrations by H.K. Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Elengantly bound in recent brown half morocco, with green buckram sides, raised bands to spine, red title label, with gilt decoration, marbled edges and endpapers. Discreet name 'Mason' to first blank, some scattered foxing Text leaves clean, browning to margins of plates (as usual), especially title and frontispiece. Binding as new. An attractive copy. Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved. Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$599.44 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front., engr. title, printed title, plates by H.K. Browne; some browning & spotting to plates. Contemp. half black calf, spine directly lettered in gilt & with raised gilt bands, brown cloth boards; a little rubbed, inner hinges neatly reinforced with appropriate paper. Contemp. signature of L. Rickinson on leading f.e.p. A good-plus copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$599.44 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front. & engr. title rather spotted, printed title, plates by H.K. Browne; small paper flaw on p.31 affecting 6 words of text but not overall sense, occasional browning plates. Contemp. half maroon morocco, spine gilt in compartments, cloth covered boards sl. faded; sl. rubbing, but an attractive copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, UK, 1853.
Price: US$608.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1853. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne/Phiz, including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. A late Victorian beautifully bound full leather with gilt work to spine covers and inner edges. Hand marbled endpapers. Book is very good and in nice bright condition. Odd light marks. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. Light age toning and odd marks to the pages. Early Plates age toned/foxed with the rest much brighter. More images available upon request. Ref16835
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$634.03 + shipping
Description: [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624 [4]. Typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6, 'elgble'; p.209, line 23, 'chair' instead of 'hair; and p.275, line 22, 'counsinship' instead of 'cousinship'. Lacks the half-title. With 40 engraved illustrations by H.K. Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Including clear early impressions of the 'dark' plates. Contemporary green half calf, with raise bands, gilt titles to red label, gilt decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Moderate spotting to plates, with some light spotting to facing leaves, otherwise internally clean. Hinges starting but remaining firm. Plate to face p.530 misbound facing p.513. Heavy wear to to spine; moderate to boards. Good. Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved. Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$634.03 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front. & engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne. Contemp. half red morocco, purple patterned cloth boards, spine with raised gilt bands & directly lettered in gilt a little off-centre; a little rubbed. Contemp. signature of Ann Coates, Stokesley, on leading blank. With unusually clean plates.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, color marbled boards halfbound in green leather with raised bands on spine, all edges marbled, corners and edges scraped and rubbed, spine faded, hinges and binding are tight, illustrated with engravings, all plates present, slight offset shadow on pages opposite plates, otherwise pages are clean, with all 1st edition point typographical errors, 624 pages
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st book edition after the serial set, good only in original cloth. Rebacked with the original spine reapplied. Cloth was once green but is very faded; spine ends were chipped away. Foreedges have numerous bumps and worn spots; corners quite worn. Inside this copy lacks the engraved title, frontis and half-title pages, beginning with the printed title. Text is unmarked and foxing is minor, but each of the excellent Phiz plates is turning brown at the edges. 624 pp. + 38 plates (lacking frontis).
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. 8vo. 624 pp. Illustrated with 39 plates by H. K. Browne. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards. The front cover is detached. Spine has four raised bands and gilt titling on a black background. Wear to the covers and tanning to most of the plates. Off-setting from the frontispiece to the title page. The three typographical errors, called for in the first issue, are present: on p. 19, at line 6: 'elgble'; on p. 209, at line 23: 'chair' instead of 'hair'; and on p. 275, at line 22: 'counsinship' instead of 'cousinship''
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].. Bleak House.. London: Bradbury And Evans, 1853., 1853.
Price: US$666.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp.xvi, 624. with half-title. 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne (incl. frontis. & additional title & 10 dark plates. contemporary binders cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (plates offset & plate margins browned). First Edition, bound from the original parts. Podeschi A131. Smith I 10. Sadleir I 682. NCBEL III 800.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
DICKENS, CHARLES. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$668.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VERY RARE - SCARCE EDITION, TRUE FIRST EDITION/RARE FIRST PRINTING, VERY GOOD 3/4 MOROCCO LEATHER and MARBLED BOARDS BINDING, 40 STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES, BLEAK HOUSE, by CHARLES DICKENS, LONDON: Bradbury and Evans. 1853. TRUE FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. First issue-first state. 1st Printing . 8vo. 9.0" x 6.0" Inches. (LxB). With the half-title, frontispiece, vignette title, Pp. [v], viii-xvi + [1]-624 pages. This copy is from the first printing, with "compu" on page 19 & "chair" for "hair" on page 209. With 40 inserted plates (ten dark plates) including frontispiece with tissue guard and vignette title by H.K. Browne. Bound from the original parts, with stab holes visible at the inner margins, with the Bradbury & Evans imprint on the title & vignette title (later changed to Chapman & Hall). (Eckel 80-81; Podeschi 130-1). Bound in fine original 3/4 morocco leather over marbled boards, gilt stamped spine with 5 raised bands. This title is considered by many to be Dickens's masterpiece, one of the greatest novels ever written in the English language. Although, on its face, BLEAK HOUSE is a satiric indictment of the British court system, Dickens's brush is much broader than that. BLEAK HOUSE is about the mistreatment of children, the hypocrisy of the upper classes, false charity, and vain hopes. It is filed with mystery, satire, suspense, pathos, and intrigue. A classic work. Complete as issued. This is a rare book in the original 3/4 morocco leather binding, over marbled boards, some minor wear/tear/scuffing/chipping to covers, spine, ends & corners, pages with minor age toning are mostly clean & bright, the plates with mostly marginal foxing-browning Note: The plates with mostly marginal foxing-browning, heavy to additional title and frontispiece, small bookplate on the front pastedown
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$669.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 624pp., bound from the original parts. Illustrations by H.K. Browne "Phiz" with 40 engraved plates which includes 10 dark plates, lacks half-title, engraved fronrtispiece with the words "frontispiece" at foot, vignette title page and regular title page errata with 5 lines. text clean, plates do have darkening around the edges. A very good copy bound in 3/4 light brown leather over gray cloth, raised bandsm black leather spine label gilt, all edges marbled.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London; Bradbury and Evans;, 1853.
Price: US$704.48 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Quarter leather with gilt lettering to the (slightly faded) spine. Leather corners. Very good. Some foxing
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$747.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, mixed state (with some first issue points). Tall thick 8vo., cont. half calf, cloth, xvi, 624pp. With illustrations. Light foxing throughout including plates, small chip at head of the spine, some light wear to extremities but still a very good copy in a plain binding. Gimbel 131, Sadleir 682, Wolff 795A.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 624 pages. 21 1/2 x 15 cm. First edition in book form with imprint of Bradbury and Evans on vignette title. Half title, engraved frontispiece, and 38 plates by Halbot K. Browne (including the dark plates), which in this copy are good impressions. Dickens' indictment of the abuses in the Courts of Chancery. ECKEL pp. 79-81 notes, "The charge that Skimpole was Leigh Hunt in this novel] drew some fire from the latter's friends." SADLIER 682. SMITH I:8. YALE/GIMBEL A131. Errata. Text clean and bright, plates predominately Elegant binding by Morrell: raised bands, spines panels richly gilt in floral motifs, brown and black spine labels lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, triple gilt cover border panels with corner rosettes. Slight nick to backstrip head.
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Édition originale.. London, Bradbury, Evans, 1853.
Price: US$767.38 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Complet des 40 gravures incluant le titre gravé.Édition originale. London, Bradbury, Evans - 1853 - xvi pp + 624 pp. Printers whitefriars. Errata 5 lines.Reliure anglaise demi-veau à coins signé par J. Rowbotham. Dos à nerfs orné de filets doré, avec auteur et titre. Bord des gravures brunis. Rares rousseurs sur le texte. Bon état. Format in-8°(22x14). Edition originale
Seller: Livres et Collections, SEVRES, France
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury, London, 1853.
Price: US$781.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. xiv, 624. Engraved frontispiece & title page with dark staining, complete with 38 plates, some of the plates also foxed, but mainly on margins. Contemporary half morocco, gilt decorations on spine. A handsome, complete original binding of this rare first edition.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition , first printing with pg. 19 line 6 "elgble", pg. 209 line 23 chair instead of hair, pg. 275 line 22 counsinship instead of cousinship and pg. 529 line 32 picter for picture.Half tan calf over marbled boards.No half title page. The usual darkening and foxing around margins of illustrations. Edges worn and corners worn and a couple bumped. An attractive volume.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. BLEAK HOUSE. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 624 page. In Very Good condition. Bound in half green leather with marbled paper boards and gilt text on paneled spine. Boards have moderate edge wear and shelf wear, sunning to spine, heavy rubbing to corners exposing boards, black stains on spine, and wear to joints. Text block has light age toning, moderate foxing to some pages, and previous owner's name on title page. Errata listed after list of plates on xvi. First issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. JR consignment. Shelved in Case 13. 1371093. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$890.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition, first issue, of one of Charles Dickens's most celebrated novels, 'Bleak House'. The first edition of this work, first issue. Bound from the parts, with small stamp holes to the gutter. The first issue of this work, with the ten dark plates, and the following issue points as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6, "chair" to page 209 line 23, 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22, and "picter" to page 529 line 32.With a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty eight further plates, including the ten dark plates. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, known by his pen name "Phiz", an English illustrator who contributed his work to ten of Charles Dickens' books, including 'David Copperfield', and 'Dombey and Son'.Narrated by Esther Summerson, Dickens's novel concerns the long running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in the Court of Chancery. The case surrounds a number of several conflicting wills written by the same person. Inspired by a true story, the novel actually helped support a judicial reform, in the form of the 1870s Judicature Acts.Retaining the original half title.A smart copy of the first edition of this work. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to board perimeters and back strip head, resulting in losses to the leather. Otherwise, externally generally smart. Head of front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to plate perimeters, with further instances of spotting throughout, and with the odd light pencil notation. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans 1853, London, 1853.
Price: US$896.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xvi, 624 pp., First edition, first issue (Bound from the parts). With all three typographical points present. Recently bound in half black morroco over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers marbled. Illustrated H. K. Browne by with 39 plates including an extra engraved title page with vignette, plates complete. Small tear to the top edges of p.41-47. Foxing to plates. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$896.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition 1853 copy of Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Full blue leather (??) hardcover with morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edged marbled. Illustrated with 38 engravings, frontispiece and pictorial title page by H K Browne ("Phiz"). Some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Some small nicks to the leather (??) and a couple of scratches. Previous owners name inscribed inside in two places. Foxing throughout. In very good condition.
Seller: Berry Books, Sudbury, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue, with all first issue errors. Very good in 19th century quarter leather rebinding.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue, with 1853 on title page. Book rebound in leather with gilded lettering and decorations and gilded page edges. Book in fine condition.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles; Browne, H. K.. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Quarter-bound in brown leather with raised bands and gilt stamped lettering to spine; Marbled boards. Includes all 40 engraved plates. Includes all issue points such as: Errata on page XVI, "Pictur" on page 529 (line 32), "Counsinship" on page 275 (line 22), "chair" instead of "hair" page 209 (line 23) and "elgble" and "compu" on page 19 (line 6).
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. Late 20th century full burgundy morocco with decorative morocco onlay, titles in gilt to the spine. All edges with contemporary marbling. Modern marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, title page vignette and 38 full-page illustrations by H.K. Browne. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm. The contents with the inevitable darkening of the plate edges with some offsetting to the opposite pages are otherwise clean throughout. The original blank front endpaper has the ownership inscription of the famous English cricketer Heathfield H. Stephenson, dated 1894. A curious and appealing cricketing association copy. With all first issue points within the text present. (Smith, part I: 6b) Charles Dickens' works are among the most celebrated in the English literary canon but cricket fans might argue that his greatest achievement was inadvertently triggering the long international cricket rivalry of England and Australia.The first ever England vs Australia tour was originally conceived as a Victorian PR stunt and sponsorship opportunity by two entrepreneurial Melbourne-based businessmen, the wine merchants Felix William Spiers and Christopher Pond. Having failed to persuade Charles Dickens to conduct a lecture tour of Australia, the two Englishmen turned their attention to cricket. The sport's popularity was growing in Australia, so Spiers and Pond invited a team of leading English cricketers to tour the country. Twelve players signed up for the tour. Named "The Eleven of All England" or "H. H. Stephenson's XI" after the English Captain Heathfield Harman Stephenson, they each received £150, first class passage aboard SS Great Britain (costing 70 guineas), plus all expenses.The inaugural English tour of Australia was a great success, promoting the development of Australian cricket and inspiring later English teams to visit Australia. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1853. FIRST EDITION, First issue. xvi. 624pp, 39 plates. All plates very darkened / tanned. With additional title page, engraved. Physical description; [9], viii-xvi, 624 pp., 39 engraved plates. Notes; Printer's imprint on title page verso and colophon. With a dedication to the Guild of Literature and Art. Illustrated with a steel-etched frontispiece, etched title leaf, and 38 etched plates. Originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. All Walter Smith First edition issue points bar 1, present including: elgble on page 19 line 6; chair for hair on page 209, line 23; counsinship on page 275 line 22. Referenced by Sadleir (682) and Smith (82/83). Part of the original blue paper covers visiblr in the gutter of page 257. Pin-prick holes to the inner page margin. Scattered, marginal foxing to the pages, heavily tanned to the plates. Bound in half morocco leather over cloth boards with a black label. Provenance: no signatures or bookplates. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fair condition gilt titles, 5 raised gilt edged bands, worn, marked and frayed with some loss to the leather. Joints poor condition leather split but joint beneath structurally sound. Corners fair condition bumped and worn. Boards fair to good condition half leather with cloth boards, worn, rubbed with some loss. Page edges good condition red, top edge slightly darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition tanned. End papers good condition some internal end papers are tanned and foxed. Title good condition heavily tanned and foxed to the engraved title. Pages good condition some foxing and marks, heavily tanned to the plates. Binding fair condition worn, marked with some loss to the leather. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1853 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$981.15 + shipping
Description: Good copy in crude contemporary binding. Text remains in fine condition without blemish. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; pp. xvi. 624 : plates ; 23 cm. With a half-title. With additional title page, engraved. Physical description; [9], viii-xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. (8vo). Notes; Printer's imprint on title page verso and colophon. With a dedication to the Guild of Literature and Art (f. [A]3r). Illustrated with a steel-etched frontispiece, etched title leaf, and 38 etched plates. Originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Referenced by Sadleir 682. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, with all first issue points per Smith. Octavo. pp. [i-vii] viii-xvi, [1] 2-624. With the half-title leaf. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne, including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound in later three-quarter dark green leather and light green cloth over boards, gilt spine with two early gilt-stamped red titling labels, raised bands, later marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In this copy, the two engraved plates facing pages 23 and 31 are reversed: with "Miss Jellyby" preceding "The Little old Lady." Modest toning to the edges of the plates, near fine. A handsomely bound copy of what many consider to be Dickens's best novel. *Smith*, (Part 1:10).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: . Bleak House. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition with all first issue points as listed by Smith including "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22. The only two points not found are both only found in "Some copies" (pg 230, not missing the 2; Page 620, "received"). Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x 134 mm). [i-vii]viii-x[xi]xii-xiv[xv]xvi, [1]2-624. Complete with forty engraved plates including the frontispiece and engraved title. Bound with half-title. Handsomely rebound in late 19th-century half polished tan calf, over tan cloth boards. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with red and blue morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine is slightly darkened. Some rubbing to edes of boards. Previous owner's name in ink on title-page. Plates are oxidised as usual but text is clean. Overall a very good copy. "[I]n Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own. [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities. which had helped to provoke it in the first place, . was even happy while he was writing it. It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, 649-50). Smith, Dickens, I, 10. HBS 69049. $1,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1056.71 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title, front., engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne; occasional spotting or browning to plates. Contemp. half tan calf, spine gilt in compartments, maroon & olive green morocco labels; v. light rubbing. Bookseller's ticket: H.M. Gilbert, Southampton. Armorial bookplate with the monogram 'Gardez Bien'. An attractive copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1056.71 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. front., engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne. Contemp. half dark blue calf, spine attractively blocked with gilt compartments, maroon leather label, marbled boards & edges. v.g.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1084.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in crude contemporary binding. Text remains in fine condition without blemish. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; pp. xvi. 624 : plates ; 23 cm. With a half-title. With additional title page, engraved. Physical description; [9], viii-xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. (8vo). Notes; Printer's imprint on title page verso and colophon. With a dedication to the Guild of Literature and Art (f. [A]3r). Illustrated with a steel-etched frontispiece, etched title leaf, and 38 etched plates. Originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Referenced by Sadleir 682. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked, leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt-crossed raised bands. New endpapers. Pages bright and clean, however there is some foxing evident around the plates and prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 624 pages; xvi, 624p., plates; 22cm. Errata listed after list of plates on xvi. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Subjects: England - Social conditions - 19th century - Fiction. London (England) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [1], 2-624, [2] pp. Half-bound in contemporary black calf over marbled boards, calf and board edges ruled in gilt. Spine has five raised bands and decorations and a red morocco label with gilt lettering. Bound from the parts, as evidenced from sea-green wrapper residue on one of the leaves. Illustrated by a vignette title page and an engraved frontispiece, with ten dark plates, in total the illustrations contain 40 steel lithograph plates. Lacks the advertisements, wrappers, and half-titles. Text collates as complete, as per Hatton & Cleaver. The plate that was mistakenly bound in Part 10 (Visitors at the Shooting Gallery) is bound in Part 9 in this copy, facing the correct page. The three errata as well as the errata called for by the list of illustrations are present in this copy. An old British booksellers tag is affixed to the front pastedown, Myers & Co on New Bond Street in London. Eckel 79. Hatton & Cleaver 275. Bleak House focuses on the abuses in the Courts of Chancery, and was a source of controversy for Leigh Hunt, a man who was rumoured to be the source for the character Skimpole. A Near Fine book with a few hints of wear to the extremities, a contemporary owner's name written on the front pastedown, very few spots of foxing throughout.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1197.61 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front., engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne; plates with some marginal browning. Nicely bound in appropriate 20thC half dark green calf, spines directly lettered in gilt & with dec. gilt bands, marbled boards.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Chapman and Hall, London, 1853.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. 8vo. First Edition sheets, recased in c. 1866 binding. No publication date. Published c. 1866 as part of the "Charles Dickens Edition" or "Original Edition" set, Bleak House is in its original fine brown sandcloth (also called "diapercloth") binding, with a blindstamped rule around the edges. "BLEAK HOUSE." (short swollen rule), "CHARLES DICKENS." (all caps), "ILLUSTRATED", ORIGINAL EDITION" (all caps) appear on the spine in gilt. Original chocolate brown endpapers. 9" tall x 5.5" wide. Blank endpaper. Half title. Engraved frontispiece, protective tissue, engraved title vignette, title with publication place (no date) to verso. Dedication, 1853 preface (vi-x), Contents (xi-xiv), List of Plates (xv-xvi) and Errata (xvi) with 5 entries. 624 pp., blank endpaper, colored endpaper. 38 engraved plates, plus frontispiece and vignette, 40 illustrations in total. The frontispiece and vignette title page are identical to the 1853 first edition, except that Chapman and Hall replaces Bradbury and Evans on the vignette. The title page is identical to that in Smith (p. 81), lacking a publication date and with 193 Piccadilly as Chapman and Hall's address. This is identical to the address of the variant vignette title page noted by Smith, p. 84. All of the internal flaws noted in Smith pp. 82-83 are present, except for a couple of conditional ones. This is an uncorrected copy of the first edition printing. Dickens re-edited his works for this edition with the intention of developing an authoritative version of his works. When Oxford University Press decided to print a set of Dickens' works, this was the edition that was chosen. Light soiling, wear top and bottom of spine. Hinges cracked. Clean, solid textblock. A few pages loosening from signatures. Pages uniformly lightly toned. Good condition and scarce in original sandcloth.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.40 + shipping
Description: Scattered, marginal foxing. Finely bound in modern calf over green, fine-ribbed cloth boards. Raised bands with a contrasting gilt-blocked label. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; pp. xvi. 624 : plates ; 23 cm. With a half-title. With additional title page, engraved. Physical description; [9], viii-xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. (8vo). Notes; Printer's imprint on title page verso and colophon. With a dedication to the Guild of Literature and Art (f. [A]3r). Illustrated with a steel-etched frontispiece, etched title leaf, and 38 etched plates. Originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Referenced by Sadleir 682. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1204.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked, leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt-crossed raised bands. New endpapers. Pages bright and clean, however there is some foxing evident around the plates and prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 624 pages; xvi, 624p., plates; 22cm. Errata listed after list of plates on xvi. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Subjects: England - Social conditions - 19th century - Fiction. London (England) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$1260.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. green half leather binding of the time, tight, good condition with wear at edges and corners; Octavo, illustrated bokkplate Félix Meunié (19th-20th cent, book collector and author of book history works) on end paper; inside very good condition; almost no foxing on text and 39 engraved plates, all protected by original tissues; engraved title, engraved plates by H.K. Browne. The book has the three printing errors which caracterize the first edition; a copy in a rare condition as most first editions have foxing especially on the plates;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$1280.86 + shipping
Description: Bradbury & Evans. 1853. First edition. Handsomely bound in two volumes. Half green calf, spines decorated in gilt extra. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Two volumes: vol. I, xvi, [1]-320; vol. II, 321-624. 40 engraved plates in total including the frontis. and engr. title. Particularly wonderful are the dark plates, mostly in vol. II. First edition points as called for: page 19, line 6 "elgble", page 209, line 23 "chair" instead of hair, page 275, line 22, "counsinship" instead of cousinship, page 529, line 32 "picter" instead of picture. Boards slightly rubbed, prelims foxed, frontis and title page have half circle stains, some plates have foxing to margins but generally a very clean and fresh set. Please contact us for more details.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$1324.00 + shipping
Description: Scattered, marginal foxing. Finely bound in modern calf over green, fine-ribbed cloth boards. Raised bands with a contrasting gilt-blocked label. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; pp. xvi. 624 : plates ; 23 cm. With a half-title. With additional title page, engraved. Physical description; [9], viii-xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. (8vo). Notes; Printer's imprint on title page verso and colophon. With a dedication to the Guild of Literature and Art (f. [A]3r). Illustrated with a steel-etched frontispiece, etched title leaf, and 38 etched plates. Originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. 1st edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Referenced by Sadleir 682. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1338.50 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front., engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne; some spotting. One vol. bound into two, in contemp. full scarlet morocco, gilt spines, borders & dentelles; extremities sl. rubbed. Contemp. ownership inscription of Rev. Dix, Badger Rectory. v.g. A very handsome copy, bound into two volumes, and with the early bookseller's ticket of Lower of Lewes.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans. 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1338.50 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front., engr. title, plates by H.K. Browne; occasional spotting or browning to plates. Contemp. half dark purple calf, spine elaborately blocked in gilt & with maroon morocco label, marbled boards. Ownership inscription on titlepage, 1854. v.g.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$1495.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition. Leather binding with gilt decorated spine and board borders. Book comes protected in mylar cover.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.. Bradbury Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fine condition. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. "In Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place, was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, 649-50). "The Dickens cosmos, his phantasmagoric London and visionary England, emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work, before and after" (Bloom, 311).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, from the library of William Foyle, in an attractive Samuel Tout binding. "Writing at the height of his powers, Dickens adopts a virtuoso form of double narration, and the novel has since the middle of the twentieth century been widely acclaimed as his greatest work" (ODNB). From 1868 to 1879, Samuel Tout (1841-1902) bound books in Soho, London. He then worked in Whitechapel with William Coward, continuing on his own after 1880. Tout was also an early member of the staff of Karslake's Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898. The novel was first issued in monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853 and issued in book form on completion. Provenance: though unmarked as such, this copy comes from the collection of William Foyle (1883-1963), the co-founder of the eponymous chain of booksellers. Foyle's grandson acquired a substantial portion of the original collection at the landmark Foyle Library sale in 2000, including the present copy. Eckel, p. 79; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304; Kremers, pp. 100-3; Smith I 10. Octavo (208 x 131 mm). Late 19th-century brown half morocco by Tout, spine with raised bands forming six compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled paper sides and endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk bookmarker. Etched frontispiece, vignette title page, and 38 plates (including the 10 "dark" plates) by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). With 19th-century armorial bookplate of Daniel Drew (1850-1914) of Burnley on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to extremities, faint sunning to spine, slight browning to margins: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1665.12 + shipping
Description: A handsome first edition, first issue, of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. The first edition, first issue. With first issue points, as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6, "chair" to page 209 line 23, 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22, and "picter" to page 529 line 32. Bound from the parts, with small stamp holes to the gutter. The original serialisation ran from March 1852 to September 1853 across twenty issues. Each issue cost one shilling, though the final double issue cost two shillings. Rebound in a smart quarter morocco binding, with gilt lettering to the spine. With the original front paper wraps for No. V of the serial, bound in. With a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight full-page plates, including the ten dark plates. Collated complete. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, known by his pen name "Phiz", an English illustrator who contributed his work to ten of Charles Dickens' books, including 'David Copperfield', and 'Dombey and Son'. Narrated by Esther Summerson, Dickens's novel concerns the long running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in the Court of Chancery. The case surrounds a number of several conflicting wills written by the same person. Inspired by a true story, the novel actually helped support a judicial reform, in the form of the 1870s Judicature Acts. The half title page is present. With the previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Rebound in quarter morocco. Externally, excellent with little shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with some age-toning to the edges and spotting to the plates. Scattered spots and handling marks throughout. Previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Small amount of loss to the lower part of page viii. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.. Bradbury Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. In very good condition. "In Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place, was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, 649-50). "The Dickens cosmos, his phantasmagoric London and visionary England, emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work, before and after" (Bloom, 311).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Complete with all 40 plates which include the frontispiece, title-page and the 10 "dark plates." Has all three typographical errors associated with the first edition, first issue: P.19, line 6: "elgble"; P.209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair"; and P.275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full green crushed morocco with a gilt portrait of Dickens on the front board and gilt signature on the rear. Marbled end papers all edges gilt. Front outer joint a little tender. Extremely clean internally, with much less foxing than is typically seen. A very handsome copy overall. One of Dickens' finest novels, the action in Bleak House revolves around a never-ending set of related Chancery Court cases to resolve the inheritance of a considerable estate. Dickens turns his pen to a biting condemnation of the system and the need for reform (which shouldn't surprise the Dickens scholar). A complex novel and filled with subplots, it engages and titillates the reader from start to finish. Noted by some for Inspector Bucket's prominent role in investigating a murder, which earned it a spot on the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of detective fiction, the novel is also memorable for its complex representation of femininity. "There's more to Esther than simple good nature. As the book progresses she reveals a dark, angry wit. It is a wit that can still strike a chord today" (The Guardian). An important social commentary, and Dickens at his best. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Bleak House.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, xvi, 624 pages, frontispiece, engraved title, and 39 engraved plates by H. K. Browne (a.k.a. Phiz). In original publisher's maroon cloth, sunned to tan on spine. Scattered foxing to plates, as usual, but text is clean. Charles Dickens Centenary Testimonial stamp dated 1912 on front free endpaper. Ownership autograph on front free endpaper. Few stains and cello-tape ghosts on pastedowns.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
CHARLES DICKENS. BLEAK HOUSE. BRADBURY AND EVANS, 1853.
Price: US$1889.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In original binding. Black leather spine with gilt title. Marbled boards, black leather corners. Illustrations by H.K.Browne. Previous owners inscription on inside front end paper. Some shelf wear and rubbing to covers and extremities of book. Foxing to plates, this was due to paper used at this time. Otherwise fine
Seller: Orchard Vale Books, Hereford, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover Condition: Fine. 1st edition, 1st issue. 624 pages. Almost no foxing. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere. Five raised bands with gilt image of Charles Dickens on cover and facsimile of Charles Dickens' signature on rear. Text block edges in gilt. Beautiful end papers. An exceptional copy. First edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Forty plates Including frontis. Half-title is present. Additional shipping for international orders.
Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Description: First edition, bound from the original monthly parts as first published between March 1852 and September 1853. "Writing at the height of his powers, Dickens adopts a virtuoso form of double narration, and the novel has since the middle of the twentieth century been widely acclaimed as his greatest work" (ODNB). "The satire of Bleak House focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering, but the novel's complicated plot and centripetal organization bring into the picture a great cross-section of contemporary English society" (ODNB). Of note is the inclusion of ten dark plates, a new mode of illustration particularly fitting to the novel: "As Dickens's vision of society darkened, Browne adjusted his techniques, pioneering in the use of 'dark plates', where the plate was machine-ruled in parallel grooves which printed an almost uniform tone either before or after the figures and background were hand drawn. These brooding, atmospheric designs harmonized with the gloomy, foggy world of Bleak House and Little Dorrit" (Schlicke, p. 59). Eckel, p. 79; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304; Kremers, pp. 100-3; Smith I, 10. Paul Schlicke. ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2001. Octavo (207 x 133 mm). Contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled and with floral decoration in gilt, brown morocco label, marbled paper sides, endpapers, and edges Etched frontispiece, vignette title page, and 38 plates (including the 10 "dark" plates) by "Phiz" (H. K. Browne). 19th-century engraved bookplate of William Hugh Wade-Gery (died 1870) to front pastedown. Light bumping and wear, wormholes to head and foot of rear joint, small strip to foot of front cover, light foxing throughout: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. With this satire, the author was "writing at the height of his powers. the novel has since the middle of the twentieth century been widely acclaimed as his greatest work" (ODNB). The novel was first issued in monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853 and issued in book form on completion. Of note is the inclusion of a new mode of illustration particularly fitting to the novel: "As Dickens's vision of society darkened, Browne adjusted his techniques, pioneering in the use of 'dark plates', where the plate was machine-ruled in parallel grooves which printed an almost uniform tone either before or after the figures and background were hand drawn. These brooding, atmospheric designs harmonized with the gloomy, foggy world of Bleak House" (Schlicke, p. 59). Smith I, 10. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2001. Octavo (204 x 133 mm). Finely bound in light brown morocco by Bayntun c.1980, spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and elaborately tooled in gilt, French fillet to covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Etched frontispiece, 38 plates (including the 10 "dark" plates) by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), illustrated title page. Bound without half-title. Occasional spots of foxing to contents. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1942.68 + shipping
Description: First edition. XVI, 32; 16, 2, 33-64, (20); 65-96; 97-128; 12, 129-160, (14); 8, 161-192, (6); 193-224; 12, 225-256, (4); 8, 257-288, (6); 3-14, 289-320; 1-10, 15-16, 321-352; 16, 353-384, (6); 385-416, (4); 417-448; 449-480; 12, 481-512, (8); 12, 513-544, (6); 545-576; 577-624 pp. + a total of 35 plates and several printed advertisement slips. Publisher's printed blue wrappers with blue cloth backstrip. Publisher's printed blue wrappers are lacking from parts 1,2, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19-20, parts 3 and 7 are lacking the printed rear wrappers. All these wrappers have been substituted with plain, blue wrappers which all seem to be contemporary with and of the same colour and quality as the printed wrappers with no obvious sign of having been replaced at a later point, but rather with the impression of being a contemporary variant binding. Parts 1,3,4, 7, 14, 15, 18, 19-20 are lacking the advertisements at the front as well as the back. Part 2 lacks the "notice of removal slip", part 5 lacks the "Crochet cotton" slip, part 9 lacks the "Household Words" slip as well as pages 1-6 of the commercials at the back of the issue, part 10 lacks pages 1-2 and 15-16 of the advertisements at the front, other advertisements differ from the ones mentioned by Hatton & Cleaver. Part 11 lacks pages 11-14 of the advertisements at the front as well as all the advertisements at the back, part 12 lacks the "Crochet cotton" slip, part 13 lacks the "Grace Aguilar's Works" slip at the back, part 16 lacks the "Grace Aguilar's Works" slip at the back as well. Part 10 lacks plate 17 ("Visitors at the Shooting Gallery"), parts 19-20 lack the plates 37-40. Half-title, title and dedication leaves are bound with part 1 rather than with part 19-20 as described by Hatton & Cleaver, as are also the preface, contents and list of plates. One sheet loose (page 1 of the advertisements at the front) of part 2) and with ca 5 cm tear, covers as well as interiors generally well preserved throughout apart from a few chips and tears and some slight, occasional soiling; plates are heavily foxed throughout, though. First edition of Bleak House, issued in 20 numbers bound in 19 monthly parts, parts 19-20 published jointly as a doublenumber. This set with some of the printed covers substituted with plain, blue wrappers and quite a few other deviations from the collation in Hatton & Cleavers bibliography (p. 275-304), see specification. (Hatton & Cleaver, p. 275-304).
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.. Bradbury Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. An exceptional example. "In Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place, was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, 649-50). "The Dickens cosmos, his phantasmagoric London and visionary England, emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work, before and after" (Bloom, 311).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition in book form. Contains a complete set of the ten 'dark' plates. Pages and plates clean and bright, with no spots or foxing. Prior to front endpaper the hinge is slightly cracked. The exterior of the front hinge has had some professional archival repair at some point. Bound in light green leather by the famous London book-binder Zaehnsdorf. A scarce first edition copy in lovely condition.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens Charles. BLEAK HOUSE. London Bradbury and Evans 1853, 1853.
Price: US$2035.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter dark-green morocco over the original patterned cloth. The spine is fully decorated and elaborately gilt tooled with fine panel designs between gilt tooled raised bands separating the compartments, one compartment gilt lettered, the head and tail of the spine gilt tooled., marbled edges xvi, 624 pp. A fine copy, very well preserved, tight and strong, the plates all in nice condition with some of the usual edge mellowing. A very pleasing copy and an unusually good example. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS ESPECIALLY SOUGHT AFTER WORK. With BLEAK HOUSE, Dickens thought he was making an advance in art. He had been occasionally reproached for the old-fashioned, happy-go-lucky progress of his stories, and now set himself resolutely to amend the fault. The result was a fiction which his biographer considers very nearly perfect.Nothing is introduced at random, everything tends to the catastrophe, the various lines of the plot converge and fit to its centre, and to this larger interest all the rest is irresistibly drawn. (see Forster and Gissing) There is ingenuity throughout and an almost total disregard for probability.it is a brilliant, admirable, and most righteous satire upon the monstrous iniquity of "old Father Antic the Law" with incidental mockery of allied abuses which, now as then, hold too large a place in the life of the English people. A fine and handsome period piece in excellent state of preservation and presentation.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, UK, 1853.
Price: US$2177.47 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1853. 40 plates by H K Browne. 1st state. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with first issue points: "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22.frontispiece, illustrated title-page and 38 plates by or after Phiz ('Hablot K. Browne'), half-title, publisher's moderate olive green fine-diaper cloth, covers with two line blind-stamped border enclosing rectangular frame with loop-scroll design in each corner and a lineal globe-shaped design at centre, spine in blind stamped panels with lettering in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, Plate on Page 88 repaired long tear. A RARE BINDING VARIANT. Smith notes a copy with 'MDCCCLIII' at the foot of the spine as a 'binding variant' stating that he had seen only one copy and that the half-title was missing. The present copy includes the half-title.REFERENCE: Smith I:10; Sadleir 682. Book is good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed in places. Outer hinger repaired. Spine tips lightl;y frayed. Cloth marked and rubbed in places. Spine age toned. Contents average. Inscription to endpaper. Light age toning and odd marks to the pages. Plates age tined and foxed as usual. More images available upon request. Ref17432
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$2269.25 + shipping
Description: - Bradbury & Evans, London 1853, Fort in-8 (13,5x21,5cm), xvi, 624pp., relié. - Edition originale, illustrée d'un titre gravé avec vignette, de 39 planches par H. K. Browne dont 10 à la manière noire, incluant le frontispice. Tous les dessins ont été réalisés selon des recommandations très précises de Dickens, les gravures à la manière noire exprimant le désespoir et les côtés sombres du roman alors que les figures caricaturales expriment la joie et l'humour. Comme pour toutes les oeuvres de Dickens, ce roman parut au préalable en feuilletons (mars 1852 à septembre 1853). Remarques de premier tirage : "elgble" p19, ligne 6 ; "chair" p209, ligne23 ; "counsinship" p275, ligne 22 Reliure anglaise en demi chagrin bordeaux à petits coins. Dos à faux nerfs richement orné. Pièce de titre en chagrin brun. Traces de frottements aux mors, coiffes, nerfs, coins et bordures. Plats également frottés. Alors que le papier du texte est plutôt propre, malgré un jaunissement de certaines marges proches des figures, celui des gravures porte constamment des brunissures, parfois fortes, essentiellement dans les marges, un cas presque systématique dans les éditions de Dickens en raison de l'utilisation d'un papier plus acide pour les gravures. Quelques petites taches ou rousseurs dans le texte. Bon exemplaire, bien relié, cas rare pour ces éditions populaires. Neuvième roman publié par Dickens et le premier des grands romans panoramiques qui dépeignent la société, Bleak house vit le jour en France en 1858 sous le titre : La maison d'âpre-vent. Profonde originalité à l'époque, le roman utilise deux narrateurs, l'un à la troisième personne, l'autre à la première. L'opposition des deux narrations stigmatise le rapport de l'individu au fonctionnement de la société. De nombreux critiques y voient l'une des meilleures créations de l'auteur. Ex-libris Syan Siennen. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] xvi, 624pp.
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne. Handsomely bound in early 20th century 3/4 tan polished calf; elaborately gilt spine with red and black leather labels, a.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First Edition. A near fine copy. Mixed issue, with 2 of the three typographic errors. Light foxing on the title page & the pages preceding, but the rest of the text block and plates is very clean.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, UK, 1853.
Price: US$2561.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bleak House by Charles Dickens First Edition Bradbury & Evans 1853. London. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. No previous owner's inscriptions and no loose or damaged pages. Original publisher's olive-green blind stamped covers are VG. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. A very good first edition in the original boards. Very rare as such, since most copies are rebound. Some foxing, gutters cracked, spine loose from binding but not completely detached, some soiling.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. BLEAK HOUSE 2 VOLUME SET. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$3075.55 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in decorative boards. Small owner printed stamp on bottom of both volumes' FEPs. Rubbing along panel edges. Bumping on bottom of Vol. II's panel corners. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Page 19, line 6 with "elgble", page 209, line 23 with "chair", page 275, line 22 with "counsinship."
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES.. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; original cloth. Front hinge weak; back hinge mostly split; some cloth fraying and a little chipping at the extremities; some foxing; overall a very good copy. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone and the basis for a recent and well-received television adaptation. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. First edition in book form, in the first binding and with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans on vignette title. Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853. Octavo. xvi, 624 pp. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"] Original olive-green fine-diaper cloth, covers decorated with blind border of double fillet and arabesque frame, central blind cartouche, spine in five compartments, blind stamped panels with Bleak House in the second and Charles Dickens in the fourth in gilt-lettering. Spine faded to brown (as common), extremities a bit bumped. All internal flaws present as noted in the Smith bibliography. The 10 dark plates are present. Contents clean and bright, plates with toning around the edges. A few page corners bent. It is unusual to find all points present and in the scarce original cloth binding. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-118. Price: $4,000. Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition in original cloth. Front and back hinges almost loose; some spots on covers; some foxing; overall a very good copy. Comes in custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House (In the original 20 Parts in 19). Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings in the ORIGINAL parts. This set is complete with the original covers and there is advertisements in the books. All the books are in nice shape with minor wear to the spines and edges. The pages have are clean with light wear. There is NO marks or bookplates in the books. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bleak House by Charles Dickens in original parts. First edition in blue wrappers, 20 parts in 19. Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London, March 1852 to September 1853. All parts present with complete wrappers in very good condition, Part 19/20 with small chip to front wrapper. Rear inside ads for each wrapper collate with Hatton and Cleaver. All plates present. All plates clean without foxing or edge toning. All 10 dark plates present. Ads present front and back in all Parts but are not the Advertiser ads as call for by Hatton and Cleaver. First issue text with Part I: page 19 line 6 elgble; Part VII: page 209, line 23 chair; Part IX: page 275, line 22 counsinship. Part IX with one plate and inserted slip indicating it would appear in the next issue. Part X with the required 3 plates. Inventory #C-188. Price: $4,500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition in the original boards. Very rare as such, since most copies are rebound. Some foxing. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page, followed by printed title page, and 38 full-page engravings (40 total). by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), xvi, 624 pages. First Edition, First Issue, in book format with part I, page 19, line 6 with "elgble" - part VII, page 209, line 23 with "chair" - part IX, page 275, line 22 with "counsinship." Bound in contemporary half polished calf over brown buckram, ornate gilt back with red morocco label, marbled end papers and edges, WITH CHECK SIGNED BY DICKENS inserted at verso of front end page via four slits in the page. The check is drawn on Messrs. Coutts & Company and made out in Dickens holograph to Wimbledon School in the amount of one hundred fifteen pounds, thirteen shillings, and six pence and dated Second September, 1862, embossed revenue stamp right. Likely the tuition for Henry Fielding Dickens, the eighth of Dicken's ten children, who would have been 13 in 1862 and attended Wimbledon School. The book is Near Fine, with recent professional restoration re-attaching front cover and refreshing boards, in new custom clamshell case 3/4 faux leather with spine lettered in gilt, small ink spot front end page, internally clean and bright. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, basis for a 1920 British film and at least three TV mini series. A quite handsome copy, gift quality. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: . Bleak House. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition with all first issue points as listed by Smith including "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22. The only two points not found are both only found in "Some copies" (pg 230, not missing the 2; Page 620, "received"). In the primary binding variant with "MDCCCLIII" stamped in gilt on the foot of the spine. But unlike Smith's variant mentioned, this current copy is bound with the half-title. Octavo (8 x 5 inches; 217 x 140 mm). [i-vii]viii-x[xi]xii-xiv[xv]xvi, [1]2-624. With forty engraved plates including the frontispiece and engraved title. Bound with half-title. With a note in Dickens' hand tipped in on front free endpaper, reading "Bleak House and The East Wind." Original publisher's green fine diaper-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers blindstamped according to the primary stamping pattern and with variant "MDCCCLIII" in gilt at foot of the spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Edges uncut. Spine a bit sunned. Corners and head and tail of spine a bit bumped and some light chipping to head and tail of spine. Back outer joint at top of spine with a small repair to cloth. A tiny split to top front of outer spine joint. Cloth on spine a bit wrinkled. Binding slightly skewed. Plates a bit foxed and toned. Text overall very clean. A few pages opened rough, not affecting text. Front pastedown with two previous owner's bookplates. Overall a very nice copy in a primary, variant binding. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell With the note in Dickens' hand tipped in to the front free endpaper, reading "Bleak House and The East Wind." "The wind blowing in the east is a constant point of reference for Mr. John Jarndyce, one of the novel's central characters, and a beacon of social good. He deploys the phrase when his world is threatend by disorder, or when he witnesses broader injustices. Easterly winds, after all, were believed to carry dirt and disease, and were considered a real threat in Victorian Britain. Given the novel's preoccupation with physical environments, and how these relate to individual and public health, this small comments is, in fact, incredibly charged with meaning." (Sotheby's) "[I]n Bleak House for the first time [society] is seen as an absurdity, an irrelevance, almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own. [Dickens] had been preparing for this novel all his life and, despite the calamities. which had helped to provoke it in the first place, . was even happy while he was writing it. It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" (Ackroyd, 649-50). Smith, Dickens, I, 10. HBS 69008. $7,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Description: Published in 20 parts, issued in 19, from March, 1852 - September, 1853. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Original blue green printed wrappers. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-53. First edition. Light foxing on covers and only very light scattered foxing throughout the text. A complete set, with the ads, and including the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in Part XV. The first volume is lightly worn at edges and has been professionally re-cased. 11 volumes with embossed stamp on cover "Richard Davies, Engraver, printer" and one volume has inked name on cover, but overall all parts are in excellent condition, with minimal edgewear Preserved in a simple green cloth clam-shell case.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, with first issue points: "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22. Provenance: the Kenyon-Starling, William Self, Charles Henry Hough copy with their bookplates to the front paste down. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in blind, with spine lettered in gilt. With 38 illustrated plates plus frontis and engraved title page. Near Fine with toning to the spine, light fraying to corners and spine ends. Front and rear inner hinge are exposed, the front held in place by the cords and binding a little fragile. Small areas of wear to the front free endpaper with owner note penciled to the verso. Contents tanned, with plates a little darkened as usual. A fantastic copy in the original cloth, without restoration or repair and extremely uncommon in such superlative condition, with a fantastic provenance.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in 20 parts, issued in 19, from March, 1852 - September, 1853. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Original blue green printed wrappers. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-3. First Edition. A complete set, with the ads, and including the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in Part XV. Except for Vol. I, which is lightly worn on the spine, the parts are in unusually fine condition, with no wear or repair. Preserved in a cloth clam-shell case with leather spine label.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House (In the original 20 Parts in 19). Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings in the ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. A beautiful complete set with ALL the ads present, including the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in part 15, conforming to Hatton and Cleaver Dickens bibliography. All the wrappers are ORIGINAL with some repair. The pages are clean with previous ownership signature to front wrapper of final part. Overall, a superb set housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, with first issue points: "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in blind, with spine lettered in gilt. With 38 illustrated plates plus frontis and engraved title page. Near Fine or better, with faint fading to the spine and a tiny nick to the crown, foxing to endsheets and sporadically to text, the plates tend to be tanned at the borders with some foxing as well. A fantastic copy in the original cloth, without restoration or repair and extremely uncommon in such superlative condition. Pretty much as good as it gets.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Bleak House.. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, 1853.
Price: US$16010.80 + shipping
Description: First edition in book-form, in the original cloth and in exemplary condition. The novel was first published in serial form between March 1852 and September 1853. "Writing at the height of his powers, Dickens adopts a virtuoso form of double narration, and the novel has since the middle of the twentieth century been widely acclaimed as his greatest work" (ODNB). Of note is the inclusion of ten dark plates, a new mode of illustration particularly fitting to the novel: "As Dickens's vision of society darkened, Browne adjusted his techniques, pioneering in the use of 'dark plates', where the plate was machine-ruled in parallel grooves which printed an almost uniform tone either before or after the figures and background were hand drawn. These brooding, atmospheric designs harmonized with the gloomy, foggy world of Bleak House and Little Dorrit" (Schlicke, p. 59). Eckel, p. 79; Hatton and Cleaver, p. 275-304; Kremers, pp. 100-3; Smith I, 10. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2001. Octavo. Original blind-stamped green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, leaves unopened. Housed in a custom box. Etched frontispiece, vignette title-page, and 38 plates (including the 10 "dark" plates) by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Spine sunned with a few spots, faint marks on cloth, binding firm and square, internally very fresh: an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom