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Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Lie a Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 175 pages. plus ads. This is the First Edition fourth issue. This copy has been professionally repaired with spine reattached and new backing cloth. corners worn. title and emblem on cover clean and bright. ; 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Front board detached but present. Half of backstrip missing. General shelf/dust wear. Gilt picture on front board is still vibrant, could be rebound by an expert.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, 1846.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 3/4 Morocco green leather with marbled endpapers, 5 raised bands.Engraved frontispiece and false title-page. Illustrated. 175 pp. Previous owners' notes indicate that this is the 4th issue, bound without the 2 pages of ads at rear. A very nice copywith marbled page edges. VG-, wear and scuffing to extremities, book and contents solid and clean
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens. Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: original gilt and blindstamped decorated red cloth hardcover, half title, engraved frontis and engraved title page, dedication leaf, printed title page, list of illustrations, 1-176pp, plus advertisment leaf, all page edges gilt, name to flyleaf and top edge of title page, cover stained, spine chipped with loss, internally very clean, poor. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 317
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life, a Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Novel. First edition, later printing. Leather spine end corners scuffed, author spine label gone, but impressed letters readable, date on heel. Interior clean and tight, all edges gilt, pages toned.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE: A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, third printing (without the publisher's name at the bottom of the engraved title page), small octavo, embossed red cloth printed in gilt, spine replaces with plain red cloth, illustrated throughout by Maclise et alia, some finger staining but generally clean, 175 pages. Overall condition good. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life: a Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: has inscrip to f-fep, spine and covers have seperated from pp, spine is completely split, pp in good condition Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story.. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846., 1846.
Price: US$66.12 + shipping
Description: 8°. 176 Seiten. Mit Illustrationen. Goldschnitt. Leinenband mit Goldprägung. An den Kanten berieben und leicht bestoßen. Einband am Buchrücken teilweise aufgeplatzt. Papier etwas gebräunt.
Seller: Antiquariat Messidor, Bamberg, BY, Germany
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITON, fourth issue. Sextodecimo (18 x 12cm), pp.[10]; 175; [1]. Bound in red cloth with the original publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt laid on. Illustrated. Internally toned with a few marks. Binding a little rubbed and worn. Very good. The fourth of the five Christmas Books. John C. Eckel; The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values, p.127-130.
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Tonbridge, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original decorated cloth, rebacked with original backstrip relaid and retaining original endpapers (with old sellotape marks to the joints), corners rubbed, illustrated, advertisement leaf, all edges gilt, good; from the library of William H F Hinde with his bookplate to front pastedown and signature at head of front free endpaper; first edition; 175 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Battle of Life - A Love Story by Charles Dickens. First edition in tome 1846. Small book. Condition fair, Internal has some discolouration and age toning. Edges gilt. Pencil signatures of previous owners on endpapers. Red cloth boards and gilt titling/decoration is worn and discoloured especially on spine.
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles.. THE BATTLE OF LIFE.. Bradbury & Evans London 1846, London, 1846.
Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition, red gilt pictorial boards, light edgewear One of Dickens Christmas Books. All edges gilt. 1st edition 4th state. 3 copies available.
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. PICTURES FROM ITALY. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$120.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: [viii][1]2-269 [3]. Original blue cloth boards with blind stamp decoration, two pages of adverts, pictorial title page. In 1844, Dickens took a respite from writing novels and for several months travelled through France and Italy with his family. About one-third of the book first appeared in the 'Daily News' from January to March, 1946. These were edited (some additions, some deletions) for the book. In the book, Dickens wrote of his encounters with Italy's colourful street life. He was a bit daring, travelling to the summit of Mt. Vesuvius on an icy night. And this writing captures the imagination. Dickens is particularly drawn to the costumes, cross-dressing, and sheer exuberance of the Roman carnival. This is a very good copy with moderate edge wear to the boards and soiling to the edge.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life, A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans London 1846, 1846.
Price: US$122.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Very Good small octavo 175pp., illusts., Cloth worn & spine stripped o/w complete & tight. Very scarce
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New edition, revised and corrected. In a three-quarter leather hardcover with gilt titles and decorations and four raised bands to spine, marbled boards. No dust jacket. Marbled end papers. Twenty-four engravings. 311 pp., marble edged. The book is in fair condition. There is quite heavy shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and the boards are heavily scuffed. The front hinge is cracked and the front board loose but attached. There is a former owner's name and the date to the fly leaf. There is extensive foxing to the engravings and light tanning to the extremities of the pages.
Seller: Books for Amnesty Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle for Life. Bradbury and Evans, UK, 1846.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 4th state 1846. Illustrated by various engravers including Maclise, Leech, Doyle etc. Bound in a bespoke Victorian decorative cloth. Book is very good++ and bright. Spine slightly lightened. The contents are good with slight age toning to the pages. More images available upon request.Ref 16833
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lacks title page and first two illustrations, but appears to be some state of the 1846 first edition (unable to determine state without title page). Boards rubbed, owner bookplate and ink name on front endpaper, front and end matter heavily foxed. 175 pp. Dark green leather, gilt titles & decorations on spine, top edge gilt, printed marbled design on endpapers. One of Charles Dickens's lesser known Christmas books.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. The battle of life. A love story.. London Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$132.25 + shipping
Description: Gestochenes Frontispiz, gestochener illustrierter Titel, 2 Bll., 175, (1) S., 2 S. Verlagsanzeigen. Mit 11 Holzschnitt-Illustrationen von D. Maclise, R. Doyle, C. Stanfield u. J. Leech. Roter Orig.-Leinen mit Blindprägung, goldgeprägtem Titel, goldgeprägter Deckelvignette u. allseitigem Goldschnitt. Erste Ausgabe im vierten Druck (Schmucktitel mit dem Banner schwingenden Cupido, hierauf der Titel, unten der Engel mit dem Untertitel auf einer Fahne, kein Druckvermerk). - Reizend illustriertes Weihnachtsbuch. - Block gering verzogen u. nach dem Verzeichnis der Illustrationen gelockert, Außengelenke leicht angeplatzt, 4 Seiten durch Abklatsch leicht gebräunt.
Seller: Dieter Eckert, Bremen, Germany
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. Bradbury, London, 1846.
Price: US$132.25 + shipping
Description: Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. A love story. London. 1846. 175, [3] S. Mit 13 Holzstichen von D. Maclise (4), R. Doyle (3), C. Stanfield (3), J. Leech (3). Kl.-8°. Illustriertes rotes OLeinen mit Rücken- und Vorderdeckeitel mit Goldschnitt. etwas berieben, bestoßen und unfrisch. Vierte Variante des Vortitels mit dem Cupido, die Rolle "The Battle of Life" haltend und dem Engel, die Rolle "A Love Story" haltend. An den Rändern altersbedingt gebräunt, hinterer Innendeckel leicht lädiert, insgesamt gut erhalten.
Seller: Antiquariat ABATON oHG, München, Germany
dickens, charles. the cricket of the hearth. bradbury and evans, 1846.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, second state with "New Edition Oliver Twist" ad in rear. In stamped brown cloth boards with couple small smudges. Light wear to corners. Front hinge starting to crack. Bookplate to front pastedwon.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. Bradbury, London, 1846.
Price: US$143.27 + shipping
Description: Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. A love story. London. 1846. 175, [3] S. Mit 13 Holzstichen von D. Maclise (4), R. Doyle (3), C. Stanfield (3), J. Leech (3). Kl.-8°. Illustriertes rotes OLeinen mit Rücken- und Vorderdeckeitel mit Goldschnitt. etwas berieben, bestoßen und unfrisch. Vierte Variante des Vortitels mit dem Cupido, die Rolle "The Battle of Life" haltend und dem Engel, die Rolle "A Love Story" haltend. An den Rändern altersbedingt leicht gebräunt, insgesamt gut erhalten.
Seller: Antiquariat ABATON oHG, München, Germany
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life; A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fourth State. Good. Unsigned half-leather binding, rubbed at the edges and surface, a small chip at the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, inscription on the second front free endpaper, lacking the publisher's ad. One of the five Christmas books published by Dickens.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: v, 270 pp. Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. 16mo, 19th c. half morocco, gilt spine; marbled sides; a.e.g. First edition. Slight use to extremities of spine; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 174 pp. Illustrated from engravings, including frontispiece and added engraved title page. 12mo, old half green morocco; elaborately gilt spine; marbled sides; a.e.g. First edition. 1/16" chip at the bottom of the spine with 1" split to the lower joints front and rear; still, tight and sound and generally attractive
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 175, [2] p. 17 cm. Frontispiece engraving, engraved title page, and 11 other engraved illustrations. Burgundy cloth with gold and blank impressing. All edges gilt. 2 p. of ads at rear for Dickens' works. A little soiling to exterior. Corners a little worn. Tape repairs to hinges. A novella by Charles Dickens, the fourth of his five "Christmas Books," coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle, the battle being a metaphor for the struggles of life. A relatively unknown Dickens work, unlike the wildly popular A Christmas Carol.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This copy has the ad. leaf in the second and usual state, with ?No. I. of? on a line by itself. 1st Edition. 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Half black calf with black boards. Edgewear, splits in the gutters on the front hinge. Library plate on the front pastedown (nobody borrowed it) Pencil insc. on ffep. dated 1899. Signs of pencil erasings on the two blanks following the half-title.Rear hinge cracked but holding very well. Age-toning to the end-papers.Contents clean and tight with a little toning to the page edges. Small spot of old red sealing wax on rear cover. 174pp. plus 2pp. pub. ads. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$169.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; outer edges of boards damp-stained. Dickens centenary stamp on leading f.e.p. A fair copy only. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. Pp. (8), 175, followed by 2 pp. of publisher offerings. Lavish frontis. and title page. Illustrated with engravings by Maclise (two plates) and three each by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and Clarkson Stanfield. Bound in blindstamped ribbed red cloth with bright gilt illustration and lettering stamped on front cover; gilt lettering and design on spine. AEG. Corners bumped, with lower corners slightly worn-through. A bright copy. An attractive copy in original state. Written under duress and published the same year as "The Cricket on the Hearth," the literary quality of this effort hasn't held up. While an immediate commercial success, with 23,000 copies immediately sold, the stature in Dickens' Christmas books is trifling. ECKEL, p. 121.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bradbury and Evans. London. 1846. 174 pages. A fine contemporary replica of the first printing in red leather with marbled endpapers. Titles and design stamped in gilt; and gilt page edges. This book is the same size and design as Dickens' Chrstmas Carol, only Christmas Carol is issued in green leather versus red. A beautiful, crisp copy of the quality made replica first edition, first printing.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.91 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2nd state ( with three lines instead of two on the Oliver Twist advertisement at end). Engraved frontispiece and extra pictorial title and illustrations. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches), pages: 174:(2, advertisements). Original red cloth blocked in blind and pictorially in gilt. Headbands chipped, ragged 1 1/2 inch tear at head of upper joint, upper joint rubbed with a few narrow small punctures, corners rubbed.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$199.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dark red 3/4 morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, top text block edge in gilt. Minor rubbing to spine extremities, with mild foxing to endpapers and a few early/late leaves. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. [vii],176 pp., illus., double engraved frontis. 1st ed., 4th issue. A lovely example in an elegant period binding that is perhaps original to issue. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo; 269 pp; First edition, second printing. Minor edge wear on spine and corners, corners are bumped, binding is cocked and has a weak spot in the middle but is still secure. Light foxing and toning, previous owner's name on front pastedown. An attractive copy, title in gilt on spine.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original Cloth. First edition, fourth state of vignette title. Deep red horizontally ribbed cloth, the front and back covers are stamped in blind with double rul ed border interspersed with 12 floral designs on each cover. Front cover stamped in gilt with two cherubs about to do battle while mounted on wasps above a decorative spray. Former owners book plate i nside front cover and bold signature on fly. Thirteen engraved vignette illustrations as follows: Daniel Maclise (4); Richard Doyle (3); Clarkson Stanfield (3); john Leech (3). light fraying to spine ends and cloth on outer joints worn, else a very good clean copy of Dickens' penultimate Christmas book. Smith II 62-65; Podeschi A116
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$211.74 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small octavo (17 x11cm). pp. [iv],270. Without the half-title and publisher's advert leaves, as is often the case with bound copies. Vignettes to the title, and the first & final leaves of text designed & engraved on wood by Samuel Palmer. Contemporary half green calf, with label, gilt, with the label of 'Hersant Binder 15 Gower Place' on the endpaper. Lighty rubbed, some slight wear to the upper edge of the leading board, otherwise Vg. Contemporary engraved armorial bookplate. [Eckel 126; Pine-Coffin 844.5; Grolier Dickens 143: Spawn & Kinsella 197/463]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$211.74 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, final ad. leaf; initial ad. leaf neatly removed. Orig. blue vertical grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine dulled & a little rubbed at head & tail, inner hinges cracking. French ownership inscription on half title. A good sound copy. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Slight wear to top of spine, small cloth repair to base. Vignette illustrations by Samuel Palmer.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy (first edition).. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state with "Twentieth Edition." noted in ad at rear for Cricket on the Hearth. Pp. 270, (2) ads, woodcut ill. on title page, others in text, 12mo, original green blindstamped cloth, gilt titles. Contents mostly VG with original hinges, clean leaves, no owner's inscriptions. Title page has a one-inch square cut from the upper corner. Rear hing cracking a bit but firm. The cloth bumped and worn through a bit at the tips but very bright and clean. Cloth and titles not faded. About 1/8 loss due to wear at head and tail of backstrip, few small chips to green covering along rear joint. Quite an attractive copy overall, priced well with respect to condition.
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 175 pp. ill. Pretty copy in full red morocco binding, Gilt rules and gilt inner dentelles. Raised spine bands with gilt deco in bands. Original front cover bound in front and the original spine and rear board bound in rear. Spot where small bookseller ticket had been removed from inside rear board. Front board very loose.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Live, A Love Store. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good minus, 4th State book. Professionally restored with re-backed spine and new endpapers and paste downs. Blind decorated, red cloth covered boards with gilt text and graphics on front panel and gilt page edges. Inscribed and dated (1866?) by previous owner on the reverse of the title page vignette. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, fourth state. Bookplate front pastedown, lacking the top one inch of the spine, not affecting any text, light soiling to spine and along edges of boards. This is the fourth state with the frontispiece vignette including an angel holding the banner and no publisher's information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. O. Rich & Sons, 12, red Lion Square, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xx, [iv], 175, [1] pp. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. 1 vols. 12mo. SIGNED. Contains Griswold's memoir (pp. xvii-xx) of the author from "Poets and Poetry of America." While including the contents of the 1836 "Poems" the following were added for this edition: "Departed Days;" "Lines Recited at the Berkshire Festival"; "The Only Daughter"; "The Parting Word" (it's first appearance in book form); "Song Written for the Anniversary Dinner of the New York Mercantile Library Association"; "Song, Written for the Dinner Given to Charles Dickens. . ."; "The Steamboat"; "Terpsichore" (first book appearance) and "Lines Recited at the Cambridge Phi Beta Kappa Society's Dinner in 1844" (first book appearance). Most of the others had appeared in periodicals or other collections. BAL 8743 Original ribbed cloth, floral center wreath, a.e.g. Very Good, head and tail have early tape, unobstrusive. Signed "D. Holmes" cut signature tipped in on front pastedown xx, [iv], 175, [1] pp. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. 1 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.36 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st state, with advertisement page at rear with 2 italicised lines stating "On the First of January will be published. etc.". Red cloth with gilt; all page edges gilt. Owner's name on front pastedown; a few spots of foxing; board edges a little worn, with slight dent in bottom edge of front board; spine damages, with fraying at head; split in cloth on back joint, & 3cm loss at foot; gilt vignette on front board a little worn. Used - Acceptable. fair hardback in red cloth; aeg
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$254.09 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; lacks leading f.e.p., a little darkened, sl. wear to corners & head & tail of spine Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. The Battle of Life.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$254.09 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; small ink mark on front board, spine a little dulled. a.e.g. Smith's primary binding.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846 hardback xii 311 marble edged pp With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. spine cloth badly damaged, and book partially detached from worn boards inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.
Seller: D2D Books, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle for Life. Bradbury and Evans, UK, 1846.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 4th state 1846. Illustrated by various engravers including Maclise, Leech, Doyle etc. Bound in the original publishers cloth binding. Re-cased retaining the cloth and endpapers. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. The contents are good with slight age toning to the pages. Name to endpaper. More images available upon request.Ref A1234
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Has some tape on places outside the binding but is in nice condition internally with only some small foxing. Illustrations in great condition. Original binding is more sought and this is a very early edition from the same year 1846.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Price: US$275.52 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. 4 Bl., 175 S., (3) S. Mit 13 Holzstichen. Roter OLn.-Bd. mit goldgepr. Rücken- und Deckeltitel und -Verzierung und blindgepr. Deckelverzierung, Ganzgoldschnitt. Erstausgabe, mit der 4. Variante des Vortitels mit dem Cupido, die Rolle "The Battle of Life" haltend und dem Engel, die Rolle "A Love Story" haltend, ohne Verlagsangabe. - Die Illustrationen von Daniel Maclise (4), R. Doyle (3), C. Stanfield (3), J. Leech (3). - (Rücken fachgerecht erneuert, Originalrücken aufgezogen. Vorsätze erneuert. S. 1-5 mit kleinem Fleck. Seitenränder etwas gebräunt, stellenweise etwas fingerfleckig). Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
DICKENS Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original decorated cloth, recased and rebacked, minor marks to covers, vignette illustrations by Samuel Palmer, lacking final advertisement leaf, lightly thumbed, later endpapers, good. first edition; 270 pages Smith II.7
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. The Battle of Life.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; spine sl. darkened & v. sl. rubbed at head & tail. a.e.g. A nice bright copy. Smith's primary binding.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; head & tail of spine a little worn, crack in following hinge neatly repaired. A good-plus copy. Smith II 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. , 1846.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men. His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line [CGEL] This copy is in the primary (fine-diaper cloth) binding; copies were also issued in ribbed cloth of the same color. This is a very good copy, with little wear but with some soil on the covers; the endpapers are old but not original. The front flyleaf bears the penciled signature of Walter E. Smith, bibliographer of Dickens. Smith II pp 44-58.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 3rd issue with engraved half title page & frontis plate without publishers name at the bottom. Bound in publishers original r ibbed red cloth, 16mo size, 175 pages. Spine lined and title printed i n gold. Wood-engravings throughout text by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, and others. No ads at the rear. A VG copy, bottom corners have mild b umps, spine tips are rubbed with tiny frays. Front hinge starting to p ull but sewing is tight and rear hinge is firm. Interior is clean, tig ht and unmarked. Laid in loose is a certificate stating book was purch ased at Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop on Portsmouth Street in London. Th is is the fourth of Dickens' five Christmas Books.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth : Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$303.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, Fourth State., small Octavo, Pp. 8 [173] 2 Adverts, wood-engraved frontispiece. Illustrations by D. Maclise, R. Doyle, C. Standfield and J. Leech, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth, covers decorated in blind, upper cover pictorially gilt design, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pale yellow-coated end papers, all edges gilt. Owner Bookplate to front end page.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
DICKENS, Charles.. The Battle of Life.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$318.25 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; spine a little dulled. a.e.g. Smith's primary binding.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition, fourth issue of Charles Dickens's lesser known Christmas book, complete with thirteen plates of illustrations. The fourth of Dickens's Christmas Books, narrating of a charming love story set in an English village that stands on a site of a historic battle. It was first published on December 19, 1846, selling twenty-three thousand copies within the first twenty-four hours, despite being known as one of the lesser known of his 'Christmas Books.'An interesting book due to the unusual number of different issues within the first and only edition. The present is a fourth state, featuring 'A Love Story' on a banner carried by a naked cherub to additional vignette title page without publisher's information (John G. Eckel,A Bibliography).Featuring thirteen vignette illustrations, as well as a frontispiece and additional title page.From the library of Richard Wood, with his bookplate to front pastedown. In the original publisher's full crimson cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board, gilt to edges. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped and chipped to extremities of spine and boards, back-strip now laid down. Richard Wood's bookplate to front pastedown. Front hinge slightly strained, holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting to odd leaf, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated December 1845. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. New -end-papers and finely restored re-backed spine. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: [iv]175, [1], [2]ads. with half-title. wood-engraved frontis. & additional title [Cupid carrying the scroll reading "A love story," and no publisher's imprint] & 11 wood-engraved text illus. by J.Thompson, T.Williams, W.T.Green, & Dalziel Brothers, after the designs of D.Maclise, J.Doyle, R.Leech, & C.Stanfield. Original red vertical ribbed cloth with gilt stamped lettering and cover design. New-end-papers and finely restored re-backed spine. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. The Battle of Life.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; v. sl. dulled. a.e.g. v.g. Smith II, 8; the primary binding.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication page dated December 1845. Finely illustrated frontis. and title-page. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. Owner's name in heavy ink dated May 3rd 1846 to the inside front board. [ The book was first sold in December 1845 with a 1846 date] IN ORIGINAL STATE WITH A TENDER SPINE AS OFTEN, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Size: small 12mo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. Original endpapers present. Pp [viii], 270, plus ad leaf to rear. Label sometime removed from front board, leaving a faint trace, light splash marks to rear board. Early ownership signature in pencil to flyleaf recto. Collated complete and correct. On Page 1, Reader s Passport is in Gothic type, Cricket in the Hearth is advertised as twentieth edition at 5s on final ad leaf, page 5 and 270 are unnumbered. A good example of Dickens only book of travel (see photos).
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Issue. (ii) advert + half Title + vignette t.p (ii) + 270pp + (ii) adverts. Vignettes by Samuel Palmer. Margins slightly browned, slight stain to top of P106/107. Pages 5 & 270 un-numbered, blind embossed blue cloth rubbing to cornersGilt titles to slightly bumped spine. Scans available on request
Seller: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original cloth, spine bumped, wood vignettes by Samuel Palmer, advertisement leaf, ownership signature front pastedown, a nice copy. first edition; 270 pages Walter Smith II:7
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book. Second state with two pages of ads and promotion of "New Edition of Oliver Twist." Red ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustrations on front panel and spine; blind-stamped decorative borders on front and back panels. All external page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled, edges and spine are sunned. Spine folds are rubbed, upper and lower edges at head and tail of board spine are split. External outermost upper and lower edges of board panels are scuffed and rubbed through in several places including fore-edge corner tips. Age-toning with small stains and light smudges to text pages. Text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, with uncommon first state of the advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist beginning "On the First of January.". 12mo (17cm). Rebound in early twentieth-century half leather, gilt decoration and title on spine, cloth-covered boards, with original cloth from front board and spine bound in at rear; marbled endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; [8], [1]-174, [2] pp; frontispiece, vignette title page, and 12 illustrations in the text. Clean and sturdy, with some wear to top edges of boards and ad leaf at rear partially detached: a Very Good copy. One of Dickens' three Christmas books, complete with half-title, ad leaf, and all 14 illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer, with some but not all of the internal flaws listed in Smith. Though the title page states 1846, this book was actually first published in late December 1845. ECKEL p.119-20. YALE/GIMBEL A92. SMITH II (Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth) pp. 37-43.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life, a Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$386.25 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 4th state. 175pp. (2)pp. ads at rear, illustrated, half-title, frontispiece, engrave title page in the 4th state and regular title page, bound in publisher's red pictorial gilt cloth, beautifully rebacked, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt. A very nice clean copy of this fourth Christmas book in a series by Dickens.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Description: 270 pages. 17 1/2 x 12 cm. ECKEL pp.135-136. The efficacy for Dickens in this journey and vacation with his family: his encounters with Italy's colorful street life that captured his imagination and is described here. Two pages of adverts. Interior contents clean, backstrip nicked head and foot. Orig. publisher's blue cloth decorated in blind. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, First edition, 2nd issue, 1846. Hardcover, with cocked spine, and general wear to cloth cover, with rubbing to cloth and bent corners. The spine has split to cloth and repaired. Gilt edges and gilt fireplace illustration the front cover. Author's dedication to Lord Jeffery dated December 1845. "New Edition of Oliver Twist" on the advertisement page in the back of the book. The 175 pages of contents are clean and clear. slight cracking inside front cover with endpapers. Various illustrators as: Leech, Doyle, Landseer, Standfield,and Maclise.
Seller: Pandora's Books, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life, A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, 1846.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First Edition, fourth state with cupid holding the banner on title page vignette and without publisher's imprint. Octavo. 175 + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Deep red cloth stamped in gilt with two cherubs mounted on wasps above a decorative spray; light yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Boards lightly worn and bumped on edges with brief exposure to extremities. Binding is sound. Armorial bookplate of "John P. Ferrier" to front pastedown and his ownership signature to title page; minor smudging; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy of Dickens' fourth of five Christmas books. [Walter E. Smith vol. II, p. 62].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book. Fourth state. One page of ads at back. Red ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustrations on front panel and spine; blind-stamped decorative borders on front and back panels. All external page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled, edges and spine are sunned. Spine folds are rubbed and split in several places. Upper and lower edges at head and tail of board spine are torn and split. Fore-edge corner tips are rubbed through. All other board edges are scuffed but holding. Back inside gutter is cracked, front inside gutter is partially cracked. Age-toning with small stains and light smudges to text pages. In spite of internal gutter cracks, text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. bradbury & evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated throughout by Dalziel, Leech, Maclise et al. Thin 12mo, full red straight grained morocco , with gilt borders & dentelles by Bayntun; marbled end-papers, all edges gilt; joints strengthened. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First Edition. Fourth issue, with the cupid bearing the scroll, and without the publisher's name on the engraved title. Original red cloth covers & spine bound in, but without the ad page. Fourth of Dickens's five Christmas books
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$423.48 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue horizontal grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sl. marked in lower margin of front board, head of following hinge sl. fragile. Signatures on e.ps. A nice bright copy. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' all in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket On The Hearth, A Fairy Tale Of home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$436.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, Bound in the original gilt decorated cloth, Double frontis plates, Half title present, Two leaf advert page to rear, 174pp, Front hinge cocked slightly forward, Some wear at top & bottom of spine, Few minor chips to cloth at rear outer hinge but with both boards firmly attached, Few minor marks to rear board, Corners bumped, Small name to fep, Very occ light foxing, Occ faint crease to corner margins., Overall a good-very good copy. Overseas orders may require extra postage costs
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$444.00 + shipping
Description: small 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 175, [1]. with half-title. wood-engraved frontis. & additional title & 11 wood-engraved text illus. by J.Thompson, T.Williams, W.T.Green, & Dalziel Brothers, after the designs of D.Maclise, J.Doyle, R.Leech, & C.Stanfield. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. a.e.g., rebacked with spine mounted (cloth bit soiled). First Edition, with fourth state engraved title. Smith II 8. Sadleir I 681. Podeschi A116. NCBEL III 811.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life, a Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of Charles Dickens' lesser known 'Christmas Books', a heart-warming love story. The fourth issue of the first edition. The first edition, fourth issue of this work, with the vignette showing an angel holding a banner with no publisher's information.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and in-text engravings.'The Battle of Life' is the fourth of Dickens' spirited 'Christmas Books', set in an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle.A romantic novel, this is the only Christmas book that doesn't have any supernatural or explicitly religious elements.Charles Dickens is one of the most popular authors of the Victorian age. His novels show the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England, showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive characters.In the original publisher's cloth binding.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored, though missing the bottom half of the original spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little discolouration and marking to the boards and spine. Front hinge is weak. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with a few odd spots. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Battle Of Life - A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, later issue. Red cloth boards with blind tooling and gilt decoration and titles. All page edges gilt. Black & white engraved illustrations. There is a superficial crack to inner front hinge causing minor loosening. All else is clean and firm inside. Boards are still bright with minor edge wear.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First Edition, matching all first edition issue points listed in Smith, Eckel, and Podeschi. Octavo. 269 [3]. Includes 2 pp. advertisements and half title preliminaries; four black and white illustrations by Palmer; advertisements to rear with twelfth, tenth, and twentieth editions of Dickens' Christmas books; seven titles plus Portrait listed on final advertisements page. Bound in blue fine-diaper cloth; front and rear stamped in blind; gilt lettering to spine; yellow-white endpapers. Recased with original spine laid down; loss to original spine at extremities. Scuffs and smudges to boards with patchy discoloration; slightly heavier soiling to rear; gilt lettering rubbed; brief exposure to edges. Binding sound. Previous owner's armorial bookplate (Burton) to front pastedown. Mild wrinkling to pages; brief marginal chipping in spots; pages else toned but unmarked. Still a Very Good copy. [Smith II 7: 48- 58 pp. ; Eckel pp. 35-36 pp.; Podeschi A98].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$461.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The fourth state of the first edition of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale, with charming illustrations. The first edition, fourth state of this work, with the engraved title page showing an angel holding a banner, with no publisher's information.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and in-text engravings.'The Battle of Life' is the fourth of Dickens' spirited 'Christmas Books', set in an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle.A romantic novel, this is the only Christmas book that doesn't have any supernatural or explicitly religious elements.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, retaining the original half title.With a former owner's inscription to the recto of the frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Head of front joint starting, with board holding firm. Rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Inscription to recto of title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned to perimeters, with light handling marks throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
CHARLES DICKENS. THE BATTLE FOR LIFE. A LOVE STORY. BRADBURY & EVANS, LONDON, 1846.
Price: US$461.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AN EARLY STATE HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT & CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE PRESENT, DOUBLE FRONTIS PLATES, SOME ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7 X 4 INCHES WITH 175 PAGES + PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE. FRONT HINGE IS COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD WITH LIGHT WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, FEW MINOR DENTS TO EDGES OF BOARDS, SMALL CHIP TO CLOTH AT BOTTOM OF REAR OUTER HINGE WITH A TEAR TO CLOTH AT BOTTOM OF REAR OUTER HINGE [BOARD IS HOLDING FIRM] CORNERS BUMPED, MINOR CRACK TO INNER FRONT HINGE, VERY OCCASIONAL SMALL MARK OR SPOT OF LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES. OVERALL A FEW FAULTS AS USUAL WITH THIS BOOK BUT STILL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH GILT TO COVER BRIGHT. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Moderate blue fine-diaper cloth; front and back covers are stamped in blind with a triple line border. Illustated wth 4 vignette engravings by Samuel Palmer Adve rts and all text points called for in first edition. Light cover wear and corners lightly bumped. Old owners signature on front fly. A very good copy in the original cloth. Smith II 48
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, London, 1846.
Price: US$488.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Bound in red cloth with gilt decoration to front board & to spine; there is also blindstamping decoration to boards. Gilt to all page edges. Illustrated throughout by various artists in black & white. Usual wear to outer extremities; boards lightly soiled; head & heel of spine repaired. Wear to outer hinges. Inner hinges cracked. Pages age darkened, especially toward edges; some soiling to boards. Stain to the fore edge of the last 10 pages.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$489.76 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing. (8), 174, (2) pp. + 1 engraved frontispiece and 1 engraved title-leaf. Illustrated. Publisher's decorated and blindstamped red cloth with gilt edges. Boards with some faint, trifle soiling. Spine just slightly slanted, spine ends and corners just slightly bumped, the cloth of the front joint with ca 2 cm tear, binding still firm. A couple of pages with some slight foxing, interior else fine. A well-kept copy of what supposedly is the second printing of Dickens' third Christmas book. With the advertisement at the rear announcing a "New edition of Oliver Twist", followed by three lines in italics. Supposedly the second printing of the first edition of Dickens' third Christmas book.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$494.06 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; sl. cocked, spine dulled & a little chipped at head & tail. a.e.g. Contemp. signature of Mrs Danby on leading f.e.p. Smith II, 6; second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. , 1846.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint. In our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright copy, perhaps near-fine, with the usual minor wear at the spine ends; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked. Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life, a love story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1846 1ed Charles Dickens Battle of Life Christmas Romance Maclise Illustrated There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol The Battle of Life is one of Charles Dickens famous Christmas Books . First published in 1846, this short novel was published following Cricket on the Hearth and follows the culture in an English village near the site of an historic battle. Dickens describes the struggles of life as a battle; though strangely, Dickens does not include any sort of supernatural or religious themes in this book a style that differs from that of each of the other Christmas Books . Item number: #19930 Price: $550 DICKENS, Charles The Battle of Life, a love story London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o [6], 175, [3] o 13 illustrations Provenance: Handwritten N. Yorke Language: English Note on edition: o Includes ads at end Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Decorative red cloth Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 19930 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1846 Charles Dickens 1ed Battle of Life Christmas Love Maclise Leech Doyle ART Beginning with A Christmas Carol in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published five Christmas books for the holiday season. The fourth title in this series of novellas is The Battle of Life. Curiously, this title is the sole non-religious title of the Christmas Book series. The story is one of strife, misguided perception, and the significance of both romantic and familial love. This work includes numerous charming illustrations throughout provided by the collective work of esteemed artists Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. Item number: #40586 Price: $550 DICKENS, Charles The Battle of Life. A Love Story London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete o [8], 175, [1], [2 ads] o 13 illustrations References: Eckel pg. 121; Smith II, 8 Edition Notes: o Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette o Advertisements included at end o Final leaf of publisher's advertisements for Dombey and Son. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Publishers original red cloth Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 40586 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1846 Charles Dickens 1ed Battle of Life Christmas Love Maclise Leech Doyle Art Beginning with A Christmas Carol in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published five Christmas books for the holiday season. The fourth title in this series of novellas is The Battle of Life. Curiously, this title is the sole non-religious title of the Christmas Book series. The story is one of strife, misguided perception, and the significance of both romantic and familial love. This work includes numerous charming illustrations throughout provided by the collective work of esteemed artists Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. Item number: #40874 Price: $550 DICKENS, Charles The Battle of Life. A Love Story London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete o [4], 175, [3] o 13 illustrations References: Eckel pg. 121; Smith II, 8 Edition Notes: o Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette o Advertisements included at end o Final leaf of publisher's advertisements for Dombey and Son. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Publishers original red cloth Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 40874 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First single volume edition of Dickensâ classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Original front wrapper bound in. Armorial bookplate. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the authorâs own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 311pp. Bound in 3/4 green leather, brown boards. Early 1 volume edition, with preface for the 3rd edition. Illustrated with 24 steel engravings by George Cruikshank. Marble endpapers and foredges. Scuffing to the outer hinges. Small stain to back cover, scuff to cloth on back cover. Front gutter is cracked. Spine toned to brown.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. , 1846.
Price: US$606.35 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. This copy has the ad leaf in the second and usual state, with ?No. I. of? on a line by itself. A handsome unworn copy, with a few tiny ink stains on the front cover, and a large and ungainly bookplate, the offence of which is doubled by matching glue residue on the lower paste-down suggesting that it had originally been placed there. Podeschi A92. In a marbled paper and red morocco folding case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$635.22 + shipping
Description: Front. & plates by George Cruikshank; some light foxing. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine directly lettered in gilt & with gilt compartments, marbled boards; spine a little rubbed. Armorial bookplate of William Preston, Ellel Grange. The first one-volume edition, reprinting the author's preface to the third edition.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$635.22 + shipping
Description: Front. & plates by George Cruikshank; occasional sl. off-setting. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine directly lettered in gilt & with attractive gilt compartments, marbled boards; neatly rebacked retaining orig. spine strip, sl. rubbing to hinges & corners. A good-plus copy. The first one-volume edition, reprinting the author's preface to the third edition.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, Fleet Street, 1846.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red covers with slightly faded gilt titles and vignette to front. Corners bumped. Gilt titles to spine.All edges gilt. Internally exceptionally clean with double illustrated title page as new.Dedication page has a postage stamp' 1p centenary testimonial 1812-1912. A Tribute to Genius with portrait of Dickens.' All pages clean and bright with no foxing. 174pp with the two pages of ads.the first for Oliver Twist.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper, "Kay Gittings 1947", i.e. Katherine Edith Gittings, née Campbell, the first wife of writer Robert Gittings. Dearer inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. A travelogue of Italy, where Dickens toured for some months with his family in 1844. Elements of this book were first published in 'The Daily News' under the title 'Travelling Sketches - Written on the Road'; the remainder was composed specially for this bookform edition.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$660.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth State, with Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette. Octavo (17cm); publisher's red vertical-ribbed cloth, covers with decorative blind border surrounding a central gilt vignette, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece and title page, [6], 176pp, plus ad leaf; illus. by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams and W.T. Green after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech and Daniel Maclise. Slight forward lean, with thin crack to front hinge; wear to spine ends and lower board edges, resulting in occasional board exposure; clean throughout - Very Good. The fourth of Dickens's five Christmas books.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$661.24 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. 4 Bl., 175 S., 1 Bl. Anz. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz, gestoch. Vortitel und 11 Textillustrationen Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Standfield und John Leech. Originalleinen mit Gold- und Blindprägung und Ganzgoldschnitt. Erstausgabe. - Vierte Variante mit dem Untertitel "A Love Story" auf dem gestochenen Titel, dieser ohne Verlagsangabe. - (Einband etwas berieben, leicht schiefgelesen. Wasserfleck auf beiden Vorsätzen). Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves; v. sl. damp mark affecting first few leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Prize inscription on leading f.e.p., 1856. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, CHARLES. OLIVER TWIST. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$713.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp: [v]vi-xii [1]2-311. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected with Twenty-Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. Full red Bayntun Riviere leather trimmed in gilt with Dickens cameo, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, and facsimile of author's signature stamped in gilt on the back board. Decorated endpapers, and twenty-four steel engravings by Cruikshank. Contains the author's preface to The Third Edition, dated April, 1841. Laid in is a single typed page with the Eckels collation.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$716.34 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, published for the author, Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, [1846] MDCCCXLVI, in ottavo, legatura originale in piena tela blu con lavorazioni a motivi geometrici impresse al piatti; titoli in oro al dorso, pagine: [10, di cui 2 di pubblicità] 269 [5, di cui 2 di pubblicità sulle opere di Dickens]. Prima edizione. Più che buon esemplare (qualche gora e fioritura ai piatti; tagli leggermente bruniti, con minime fioriture). Interno ottimo (leggere fioriture ad alcune carte). Firma di possesso strettamente coeva al contropiatto anteriore, datata «April 6th 1847». Diario di viaggio sulla permanenza in Italia di Dickens, basato sulle lettere che pubblicò nel «Daily News» nei primi mesi dello stesso 1846. Benché la «travel literature» fosse in voga ormai da quasi un secolo, lautore scelse un approccio non convenzionale al genere, non concentrandosi sulle rovine antiche ma sulla vibrante vita di città.
Seller: Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB, Milan, Italy
Price: US$721.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 269, [1], [2]ads. with half-title & initial & final advert leaves. 4 wood-engraved text illus. by Samuel Palmer. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, endpapers preserved. First Edition in Book Form. Variant binding: fine vertical rib-grained dark blue cloth, with oval rather than round centre ornament on covers, and pale yellowish endpapers. Comma after Wood on title. Smith II 7. Pine-Coffin 8445.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. [2] (two pages advertising new and revised edition of "Oliver Twist" and a new untitled novel (Dombey and Son, per Eckel), 269, [1], followed by two pages of Dickens titles. With the original backstrip, titled in gilt, bound-in. Bound in red morocco, gilt spine titles with compartments tooled in gilt with raised bands, triple rule gilt frames in gilt. Turn-ins rolled in gilt. Binding signed Zaehnsdorf. Top edge gilt. Endpapers with slight offsetting; front free endpaper with chip to lower corner; fore-edge with superficial dampstain. Corners a trifle worn and scuff on rear cover; joints expertly repaired with discrete tissue strengthening to joints. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. A sumptuous Zaehnsdorf binding for Dickens' dispatches from Italy: The first few accounts were published 1846 in the paper he edited, The Daily News; five more were added to create Pictures from Italy, also 1846, presented here in the first issue of the first edition. Italy's built (and decayed) environment has been documented since Vitruvius. Dickens' brilliance? His depictions of street life, including a public execution. ECKEL, pp. 126-127; with all the points revealed by SMITH, Part II, p. 49.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens. First issue in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Publisher: Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846. First Edition. First Issue, with all correct points per Smith bibliography. 270 pages plus two pages of ads. Four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. In original diaper-grain blue cloth, decorated in blind-stamping with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. A nice tight copy, binding very good plus condition, small split at top of front gutter. Contents clean, a few pages with corner folds. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-168. Price: $750.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: A Christmas Carol. The Cricket on the Hearth. The Battle of Life; A Love Story. Bound together in a single volume. A Christmas Carol. 166 pages. Lacking title page - The first page present is the colored plate 'Scrooge's Third Visitor.' Followed by the preface, table of contents, and then the first page of the tale. 166 pages. The original ads from the end, if there were any, are gone. Contains 3 hand-colored plates by Leech and 4 black and white illustrations in the text. The plates are, Scrooge s third Visitor, Marley s Ghost, and The Last of the Spirits. Binding is broken. Pages 1-18 are detached from the text block (but attached to each other). Page 19-30 make up another disbound group. Page 31-32 is detached. Pages 33-48 are another disbound signature. All the rest is attached to the large textblock that contains the rest of this story and all of the other two. Without a title page or the advertisements, it is hard to determine exactly which printing this is. The publisher s name, Bradbury and Evans, is printed at the bottom of the final page. Chapman & Hall printed the first printings of the book, so the Bradbury & Evans slug suggests that this is printed after May 1844. A note on the publication history: A Christmas Carol was first printed on Dec 19, 1843 in an edition of 6,000 copies. It was reprinted on January 6, 1844. It was printed 5 more times by the end of May of that year. In June of 1844, Dickens moved from Chapman & Hall to Bradbury & Evans. Bradbury & Evans printed A Christmas Carol in 1846 (presumably from the same plates as the earlier Chapman & Hall editions). Considering that the other Christmas books in this volume are 1846 Bradbury & Evans publications, the best guess is that this is the 1846 printing. That would make it an eleventh printing. Bound with: The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1846. First Edition. Engraved title page and vignette. 174 pages. 12 illustrations in the text by Doyle, Leech, Maclise and Stanfield. Previous owners name on the title page Marianne Thesiger. Bound with: The Battle of Life; A Love Story. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1846. First Edition. Engraved title page and vignette. 175 pages. Final page is detached from the text block and still attached to marbled endpaper. All illustrations present. All three books bound together in a single volume. Green leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards and matching endpapers. Spine strip missing and text block broken into several pieces, as detailed above. Both boards detached but present. 4.75 x 6.5 . Large bookplate on inside front cover Cecil Woods Vest. I have not been able to find any information on him. There is a detached blank page tucked inside the book with the name, Charles W Thesiger, 6 th Dragoons written on it. It s not clear if this is a blank page from one of these volumes or if it s from another book. As noted above, the name Marianne Thesiger is written on the title page of The Cricket on the Hearth. The Thesiger name is a prominent one and it adds interesting provenance to this book. Marianna Thesiger was married to Frederic Thesiger, the Baron of Chelmsford & Lord Chancellor of England (1858-1859). Her second son was Charles Wemyss Thesiger (he of the sixth Dragoons). Charles W. Thesiger was Aide-de-Campe to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, fought in the China War in 1860 and also in the Curragh Brigade. He commanded the Inniskillings (the Sixth Dragoons) from 1868-1878, and was then promoted to the Inspector of Yeomanry Cavalry. He was promoted to Major-General in 1884, became Inspector General of Cavalry in Ireland the next year, and was finally promoted to Lieutenant General in 1891. He died in 1903. It s wonderful to be able to place the book with its original owners & always s delight to discover such a complete biography of those owners on the incredible online resources available to us these days. A wonder
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures From Italy. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [8], 270p. [2]. Publishers original blue blind stamped cloth. First Edition. Title vignette and three woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. Front inner hinge expertly reinforced. A fresh clean copy. Grolier p101-103 #143. The first American edition did not appear in print until 1877. Internally a fresh clean copy.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: The 1846 1st edition, 2nd state (including "New Edition of Oliver Twist", followed by 3 lines in italics, at the rear). Well-preserved and VG in its red cloth, with bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and bright, decorative gilt-flourishes and lettering along the spine. Very light soiling at the panels and mild darkening to the spine. Internally very clean, with the lightest soiling at the endapers and the slightest hint of limited spotting. 16mo, 174 pgs., all edges gilt. The book is wrapped in a custom-made linen dustjacket (with leather spine labels) and, beyond that, is housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Lon. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: In original blue-green blindstamped cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. First Edition. Vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. With Gothic lettering on p. 1 title: "The Reader's Passport" and with ads for Mr. Dickens's Works on pp. 371 and 372. The Cricket on the Hearth is advertised at "Twentieth Edition. In Foolscap 8vo, price 5s." in last line on p. 271. VG- in original blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine and blindstamped designs on front and rear boards. A tight, solid, clean copy with front hinge expertly repaired and rear hinge going. Slight spine slant with heavy chipping to the top of the spine. Overall, a handsome copy of the first edition. Scarce in the original cloth. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$771.45 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. 4 Bl., 174 S., 2 S. Anz. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz, gestoch. Vortitel und 12 Textillustrationen von Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Standfield, John Leech und Edwin Landseer. Originalleinen mit Gold- und Blindprägung und Ganzgoldschnitt. Erstausgabe. - Zweite Variante der Anzeigenseite mit der Überschrift "New Edition of Oliver Twist". - (Rücken fachgerecht restauriert. Einband fleckig und etwas berieben). Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$818.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red horizontal-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine a little dulled & with small chip at head. Signature of Anne Probert, Dec. 1845, on half title. a.e.g. A nice bright copy. Smith II 6. Second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Battle of Life. A Love Story. , 1846.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 4th state pictorial titlepage. Smith II: 8. Eckel p. 121. Spine sunned, some wear to spine ends, ownership signature on front free endpaper, else very good.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures From Italy. Bradbury & Evans,, London:, 1846.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First State of Dickens Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator. A beautiful copy bound in elegant red morocco gilt, with raised bands on the spine and lettered in gilt. The original publisher's blue cloth bound in the rear. Very slight rubbing to hinges. Size: Small 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr including frontis and extra title, 6.5 x 4.25, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, binding by Bayntun-Riviere (though not identified as such), 174 pp with two pp of ads in back, covers lightly rubbed, hinges loose, pp toned and with scattered finger soil, else a nice copy with original red cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. FIRST ED, Second State, with all points in Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography (but with three-line notice for "Oliver Twist" on rear ad). Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. PICTURES FROM ITALY.. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1846.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Samuel Palmer, 6.75 x 4.5, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, SIGNED BINDING BY BAYNTUN- RIVIERE, 270 pp, very minor cover rubbing, hinges a little loose, pp toned else a nice copy of FIRST ED, FIRST STATE with "interdicted" on p 74, "1" in p169 battered, but with unraised "E" on p(iv) and a good "r" on p122 (occasional errors); see Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography. Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. THE BATTLE OF LIFE, A Love Story.. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1846.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr including frontis and extra title, 6.5 x 4, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, binding by Bayntun-Riviere (though not identified as such), covers a little rubbed, hinges a little loose, pp toned with some scattered finger soil, else a nice copy with original red cloth covers bound in at rear. FIRST ED, Early State, (Todd "E2" & Eckels Fourth states of vignette title; Todd state 3 of verso of title) with most points in Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography (except for "A" on p 67, "too" on p 72, and "9" on p 168. Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. , 1846.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint; in our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright, near-fine copy, with very little wear; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked (the front paste-down bears the bookplate of the late Chicago professor Thomas S. Moch, and a small corner of the rear paste-down is chipped). Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, the original cloth covers backed and cornered in red morocco, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands and gilt ruled and decorated compartments, lettered in gilt in two compartments. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A fine clean copy, the binding well preserved. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$949.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Issue, with all correct points (see Eckel, Smith, and Podeschi, referenced below). Foolscap 8vo: [8],270,2]pp, with four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer (showing Villa d'Este, Colosseum, Street of the Tombs at Pompeii, and a vineyard scene). Original diaper-grain blue cloth, covers decorated in blind with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated end papers. A superb copy: internally virtually pristine, with crisp, clean pages; binding tight, gilt fresh and bright; lower cover with almost undetectable scattered areas of fading. Eckel, pp. 126-127. Smith II, pp. 48-58. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A98. Grolier (Dickens), pp. 101-103. Thomson 45. Pine-Coffin 844(5). Dickens, his wife, Kate, and her sister Georgina, with the Dickens's five children and several servants, left London by coach on July 2, 1844, bound for Italy. After one month's stay in the Villa Pallavicino della Peschiere, in Genoa (where Dickens wrote The Chimes), he and Kate left the children with Georgina and traveled south, stopping first in Pisa and Florence. In Rome, Dickens was captivated by the ruins, practically overcome, he later said, by the sight of the Coliseum. They also visited Herculaneum and Pompeii, making a perilous ascent to the rim of Vesuvius and peering into the "Hell of boiling fire below." Dickens published reports of his journey in the Daily News, as a series of eight "Travelling Letters. Written on the Road." Pictures from Italy (incorporating the letters, with five chapters added) appeared in book form on May 18, 1846, but not before hitting a rather tortuous bump in the road: "Clarkson Stanfield had agreed to illustrate the text for Dickens but, when he read those passages of the narrative in which Dickens satirises the excesses of Catholic devotion, he resigned from the project. Stanfield was himself a prominent English Catholic, after all, as Dickens knew, and he could scarcely be connected with a publication which treats his Church's ritual as little more than a parade of mummers. . . . As usual, Dickens went at once into action in order to find a substitute; fortunately and curiously, he chose a young artist who then had no real reputation, Samuel Palmer, whose wonderful illustrations are not the least of the merits of Pictures from Italy in its final state" (Ackroyd, Dickens, pp. 491-92). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: . Bound in dark green full polished calf with elaborate gilt decoratd spine, black title label on spine, triple gilt border rules to boards, gilt decorative border inside covers, marbled inside covers. Inside cover has the original spine from the first edition next to the bookplate of George Browning Anderson
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 12mo. An unrecorded binding, bound in plain red pebbled cloth, speckled edges. Half-title, bound without engraved title, frontispiece or advertisement, ink name to title and front fly-leaf, pale plain endpapers. An unusual, scarce nd uncited variant binding.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress. , 1846.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First one volume edition. With twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank. 8vo. xii, 311, [1] pp. Late nineteenth century half red straight-grain morocco with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five raised bands outlined in blind, second panel lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. Oliver Twist was originally published in three volumes in 1838. The present edition was the first time that the three parts were printed together in a single volume. A good copy, joints and corners rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Previous owners bookplate to front paste-down. John Podeschi, Dickens and Dickensiana. (A39).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The New and Revised edition with a preface by Dickens who was 36 years old at the time of publication. A very good copy in half leather. Rubbing to the front and rear panels and sporadic foxing, but better than usually found. H and C Treacher bookseller in Brighton label on the cover verso. The binding is tight and despite rubbing to covers this is an attractive copy of a very early edition of this Dickens favorite classic.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: . The Adventures of Oliver Twist. or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank. A new edition, revised and corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank. A new edition, revised and corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First octavo one-volume edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm). xii, 311, [1, colophon] pp. With twenty-four inserted plates, including frontispiece. Half-title present. 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. Front hinge cracked but firm. Inner hinge split but holding. Some rubbing to edges and corners. A marginal repair and a small hole to plate facing page 136. A dampstain (?) to top edge of plates facing pages 192, 204, 212 ans 216 but not affecting image. Overall very good. Oliver was first published in book form in 1838, and appeared in a number of so-called editions until it was "extensively revised and appeared in ten monthly parts from January-October 1846. [before it was published] in one volume on September 26, 1846" (Smith, 36-37). This printing was done from a copy of the 1841 edition. Cruikshank designed a new cover (containing 11 scenes from the novel) for the issue of this edition in parts, and the plates from various three-volume editions were retouched and re-bitten by J. Findlay. Eckel, 63. Smith 4, Note 5. Gimbel A39. HBS 69010. $1,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury and Evans for the Author,, 1846.
Price: US$1026.61 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pictures from Italy. London 1846 first edition, First Issue with the 2pp adverts and half title preliminaries, and the rear adverts showing 12th, 10th & 20th editions of the Christmas books. Woodcut illustrations by Samuel Palmer, advertisement leaf at beginning and end, original blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, minor slight discolouration to upper corners of front cover, else a Fine copy, exceptionally bright, clean and fresh copy. No ownership markings. [Smith II: 7 48-58pp; Eckel p. 35], Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 8vo.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1058.69 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt. a.e.g. v.g. Smith II, 6; second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. , 1846.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. Original cloth, housed in custom brown cloth slipcase with inner cloth chemise. London: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. $1000.00 First edition. Gimbel A98. Eckel, pp. 126-27. Smith 7. A very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Oliver Twist.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$1127.35 + shipping
Description: "A New Edition, Revised and Corrected." First edition in one volume. Tall 8vo., full contemporary tan calf, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, leather spine labels, gilt and blindstamped borders, inner dentelles gilt, A.E.G., xii, 311pp. With 24 plates. Light foxing throughout, plates foxed with browning at the perimeter, plate at page 85 repaired, minor repair to upper board, a touch of rubbing but this is still an attractive copy. Sadleir 696c, Gimbel A39.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Vignette title in the fourth state (Smith II.8). Small 8vo: [viii], 175, [1], [2]; complete. Tipped onto the advertisement leaf is a smaller leaf advertising "Monsieur Vlieland's Works," not described in Smith. A lovely, Fine copy with some contemporary ownership markings at the front end papers, otherwise an excellent copy both inside and out. Dickens' fourth Christmas book and one of the lesser known books from the series. The Battle of Life centers on two sisters, Grace and Marion, who must contend with shared romantic attachments. After Marion disappears with a presumed libertine, Michael Warden, the family struggles to make sense of her sudden departure. But in standard Dickensian fashion, the plot twists get resolved and happiness prevails for everyone. Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens. First issue in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Publisher: Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846. First Edition. First Issue, with all correct points per Smith bibliography. 270 pages plus two pages of ads. Four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. In original diaper-grain blue cloth, decorated in blind-stamping with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. A wonderful copy, binding is near fine condition with contents clean. Bookplate to front pastedown, owners notation in ink at the top of the ffep with June 1846 date. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-124. Price: $1250. Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1265.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, handsomely bound in full dark green crushed levant morocco by the French binder S. David showing the refinement and delicacy associated with the best traditional bindings of the ages. The spine with raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, fine French marbled endleaves, binding edges gilt tooled, the turnovers with gilt roll tooling at the borders surrounding triple gilt fillet rules surrounding another roll tooled inner border gilt, all edges gilt, the original cloth covers bound in at the front and rear. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A very fine copy, tight, clean and beautifully preserved, the spine panel mellowed to honey-green as is normal. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the first state of the ad leaf and all first issue points as called for. With four vignette illustrations from woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. Small 8vo, in the publisherís original blue cloth cloth decorated on both covers and spine in blind, the spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind. [2 ads.], [vi], 270 pp. An especially nice copy of this charming little book, internally extremely clean and fresh. The blue cloth bright with no fading. A VERY NICE COPY INDEED. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. A beautiful reminiscence of a tour through Italy by one of Englandís greatest writers. Dickens provides for the armchair traveler a descriptive journey through some of the most scenic areas and cities in Italy and France. His poetic and descriptive style, made famous in his many novels, is well suited to this type of travel log. The vignettes show Villa d'Este, the Colosseum, The Street of Tombs at Pompeii and a scene of a vineyard. Dickens traveled from London during the summer of 1844 and wrote not only this book and assorted articles, but also THE CHIMES, one of the Christmas books.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1485.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the vignette title page in the Todd E1 and Eckel 4 state, rare thus. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title pages. Illustrations by Richard Doyle, John Leech, and others throughout. Small 8vo, in a very handsome antique full dark-green crushed levant morocco binding, the spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt in two compartments, turnovers with richly gilt rolled borders surrounding gilt tooled inner borders, fine French derived marbled endleaves, a.e.g. 175, [1] ads. pp. A very handsome, finely executed binding in excellent and beautifully preserved condition both within and without, the spine panel mellowed slightly to honey as is usual. FIRST EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS "CHRISTMAS BOOK", THE BATTLE OF LIFE. This was the fourth installment in Dickens series of Christmas Books, the first of which was the timeless and brilliant CHRISTMAS CAROL. Dickens managed to find the time to complete the THE BATTLE manuscript while working on DOMBEY AND SON in Switzerland and in December of 1846 the book was released, selling 23,000 copies in the first 24 hours. This edition was the only one published in Dickens lifetime, and it has become of special interest to bibliophiles and collectors due to the four variations of the vignette title. This title page is in accordance with Eckels state 4, the D in BRADBURY is unbroken and this copy has the publishers imprint.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Battle of Life. A love story.. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, second state, rather than the far more common fourth state. The Battle of Life is the fourth of Dickens's Christmas books. The first state of the engraved title page has "A love story" without a banner, the second state with a banner and without a figure. Both were available on publication day, 19 December 1846. The third and fourth state have a banner with a figure. Smith II, 8. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Engraved frontispiece and title page with tissue-guard, 11 illustrations in the text. Neat contemporary ownership signature to half-title. Joints and extremities skilfully restored, slight finger-soiling to contents. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First one-volume edition of the author's second novel, the first appearance of the definitive text, revised by Dickens from the prior three-volume edition. This copy comes from the library of William Foyle and is in an attractive Samuel Tout binding. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and then as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from Bentley. His revisions offer a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his subsequent experience of the novel's public readings. The one-volume edition was issued in ten monthly parts from January to October 1846, and in the present form on completion. This edition is scarcer than the preceding three-volume edition: "many collectors prize this edition very highly and consequently it is the more valuable of the Oliver Twists" (Eckel, p. 62). 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. 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, pp. 59-63; Gimbel A39; Kremers, pp. 90-3 & 188-95. Octavo (208 x 129 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. With 24 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. With 19th-century armorial bookplate of Daniel Drew (1850-1914) of Burnley on the front pastedown. Bound without the half-title. Light rubbing, faint sunning to spine, minor foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, slight browning to content margins, faint offsetting from plates to several leaves: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. , 1846.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Original cloth, housed in custom cloth folding box. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, first issue. Smith II: 7. Eckel p. 126. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1732.41 + shipping
Description: complete set of 20 numbered parts in 19 as issued, continue pagination of pages 1-624, plus the 'Dombey & Son Advertiser' in each part, 40 plates through the 20 parts (2 in each part), plus slip in adverts throughout including The Music Book and Rowland Bradshaw coloured ads in parts 1 & 2, small Punch add in parts 2 & 3, Richard's Daily Rememberance advert [4] with red text in part 3, small Man in the Moon advert in part 4, Cheap Editions of the works of Charles Dickens [4] in parts 6 & 7, Dankin and Company advert [2] with blue text in part 9, Maps, Guides, and Charts small advert in part 10, advert for Lett's Diary's in part 15 (with 12 of 18 parts), 2 small catalogues in part 17 etc. Parts 19 & 20 contain the title page and prelims at the rear [xvi] which would be used if binding all the parts together First Edition , Parts 1 & 2 with no rear cover, part 4 with no covers, part 11 with loss to one of the adverts at the front, cover lightly creased and some with small tears otherwise a nice clean set, books in good condition , Original blue paper wraps Octavo, 22.5 x 14 cm Paperback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: Half title, plates by George Cruikshank. Beautifully bound in sl. later full scarlet crushed morocco by Tout, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders & dentelles. With the orig. dark purple cloth bound in at end. t.e.g. A v.g. handsome copy. The first one-volume edition with the plates re-worked by Cruikshank. Dickens's preface to the third edition of 1841 precedes the text.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Half title, front., engr. title & illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield & Leech, final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine dulled & a little chipped at head & tail. Contemp. ownership inscription, 'Martineau, Highfield Road' on leading f.ep. a.e.g. Smith II, 6; with the first state of the advertisement leaf showing the italic heading over two lines rather than three. This first state is much scarcer than the second; Smith comments, 'I have found the second state of the advertisement in all but a few copies of the first edition that I reviewed'. First published on 20th December 1845. From the Martineau family library, Highfield Road, Birmingham.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, and unusual thus - Smith notes he has only seen a few copies in this state. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December 1845, the title page postdated 1846. It proved very popular - Dickens's friend Forster recorded that it doubled the circulation of its predecessors. That is since recognized as an exaggeration, but it nonetheless quickly underwent two editions, and by January there were 17 stage adaptations in progress (Schlicke, p. 128). The first state has the advertisement for Oliver Twist opening in two italic lines, the second state has the notice expanded to three. Smith, II, 6; Eckel, pp. 119-20. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2011. Octavo. Original red cloth, lettering and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Engraved frontispiece and title page, 12 illustrations in the text. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of G. Mann of Cornhill to front pastedown, and bookplate of Emanuel Boutcher (1824-1888) of Grateley House in Hampshire. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Very minimal sunning to spine and trivial splits at joint ends, ever so slightly shaken. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Cricket on the Hearth, The. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: "To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!" DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, with first state of "Oliver Twist" advertisement. Foolscap octavo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 102 mm.). [iv], 174, [2, advertisements] pp. Additional engraved frontispiece and pictorial title (by Maclise) with original tissue guard. Illustrated throughout in the text. Handsomely bound ca. 1880 by Samuel Tout (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free endpaper). Full blue crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively ruled and bordered in gilt, spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, light brown patterned imitation silk liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. A very fine example. "Although the titlepage is postdated 1846, The Cricket on the Hearth was published on December 20, 1845." (Smith). "Of the 14 illustrations in this Christmas book, seven were designed by John Leech; three by Richard Doyle; one by Clarkson Stanfield; two by Daniel Maclise; and one by Edwin Landseer." (Smith, p. 42). John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. Victorian binder Samuel Tout worked out of Nassau Street in Soho, London 1868-79. He then partnered with William Coward in a bindery in Whitechapel but in 1880 continued on his own in the same location. Smith II, 6.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Description: Plates. Orig. pale blue printed wrappers; Part I very worn, but otherwise a very nice copy, retaining most of the original ads. Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A nice attractive set, with ten of the nineteen parts complete as issued, retaining all plates, prelims, advertisements & slips. With the following omissions; other parts complete as issued. I. Front wrapper detached & very chipped & creased, following wrappers missing. Dombey & Son Advertiser lacks first leaf. III. Lacks 4pp following ad. for Richards's Daily Remembrancer. IV. Lacks following slip for The Man in the Moon & 2pp ad. for The Lady's Newspaper. VI. 4pp following ad., Introduction to Zoology, bound in twice. VII. Without initial 4pp slip. IX. First leaf of Dombey Advertise torn in corner with sl. loss. X. Lacks all following ads. XI. Lacks following slip for Lett & Son. XII. With additional following 4pp ad. for Worsdell's Pills, not mentioned in H&C. XIII. Lacks slip & Dombey Advertiser. XV. Lacks following slip for Twiddlethumb Town. XVI. Lacks initial slip for Forster's life of Goldsmith, but with additional following ads for Mechi (small format 24pp) & Knight's Shilling Volumes (12pp), both usually found in Part XVII. XIX/XX. Spine defective; with sl. differing following ads: Lea & Perrins is in 6pp; Chapman & Hall is in 4pp.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Half title, front., engr. title & illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield & Leech, final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt. Contemp. signature of Harriet Simpson, & booklabel of Rev. Charles Upwood Manning; bookseller's ticket: J. Robinson, Market Hill. a.e.g. A v.g. bright copy. Smith II, 6; with the first state of the advertisement leaf showing the italic heading over two lines rather than three. This first state is much scarcer than the second; Smith comments, 'I have found the second state of the advertisement in all but a few copies of the first edition that I reviewed'. First published on 20th December 1845.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2131.52 + shipping
Description: The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, first revised and first one volume English edition, a fine rebound copy in a full leather Riviere binding with raised spine consisting of 6 compartments (2 text and 4 decorative, all in gold-gilt), double ruled gold-gilt along the margins of both front and rear covers, edges of boards finely decorated, marbled-end-papers and gold-gilt page edges all around. Furthermore this copy exhibits hardly and foxing and the twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank are all quite nice. A most handsome and desirable copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good condition copy of the third edition of this classic title, a highly significant revised and corrected version. This re-issue is both desirable and quite scarce, and forms the basis for the Oliver Twist text as currently published. The author's preface in this edition adds to its importance. The cover is half leather and half boards, with ribbed leather back strip featuring gilded print and ornamentation. The sewn binding is tight. The back strip is solidly attached to the front cover, however, it is separated from the back cover. A small, <.5-inch, piece is missing from the back strip where it intersects with the back cover, but is included to re-glue. We will re-glue the entire back strip, if so requested. The book's interior is clean, with some foxing on some pages. Included are 24 one-sided illustrated plates, which are steel engravings produced by George Cruikshank, the same illustrator as the 1838 first edition of this title. Charles Dickens is the attributed author in this edition, rather than the Boz pen-name he used in 1838.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens (Charles).. The Cricket on the Hearth. A fairy tale of home. Bradbury and Evans,, 1846.
Price: US$2694.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Etched additional title and frontispiece, illustrations Small 8vo A few small marks to spine, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy Original red blindstamped cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$3140.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in original parts, 20 parts in 19, in a beautiful half leather case with gilt spine and title, the years indicated on spine are erroneous: "1855-57" instead of 1846-48; original blue-green pictorial wrappers, most in very good condition including the spine (wrapper of part I with some wear at edges, all the others very good, name on parts 4, 9, 16, ); 40 etched plates by "Phiz", 8 plates with browning, the other plates good to very good; a number of characteristic points of the first printing are present in different parts, but not all; very important collection of ads in all the parts, with for instance "Lett's Diaries" in part 4, stationery examples in part 15, Mocha's & Cox catalog in part 17, Dakin & Co in 9, Kaye's pills in 12 etc.; also presence of the different errata slips, and publisher's slips ("new Christmas tale" in 2, "no Christmas book" tin 15, the four portraits in 18, life of Goldsmith in 19/20 etc. As a whole a beautiful set of this edition.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from the original publisher Bentley; many of his revisions were in the direction of a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his experience of public readings. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). "Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Once the scene shifted to London, however, Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend of a 'realistic' tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver (the first of many such child figures in Dickens), the farcical comedy of the Bumbles, the sinister fascination of Fagin, the horror of Nancy's murder, and the powerful evocation of London's dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld, all helped to drive Dickens's popularity to new heights" (ODNB). Gimbel A39; Carr B98. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, covers panelled in blind, gilt garland to front cover, repeated in blind to rear cover, light yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and 23 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Spine sunned, light wear to cloth around extremities and some superficial splitting to rear joint, some minor marks within but on the whole clean and fresh, very good condition overall.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48, 1846.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, in the original monthly parts published from September 1846 to March 1848, an attractive set of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB). This set has the early state of the Dombey and Son Advertiser in part XIII ("October, 1847" unbroken on p. 1). The errata in part XIX & XX in the preferred two line state. All but one of the called for issue points are in their earliest states, with "capatin" in part XI at p. 324, as the "earliest issue"; for part XIV the word "if" on p. 426 is omitted also stated as the "earliest issue", although p. 431 is numbered correctly, whereas they call for it to be omitted in "earlier copies". The rear cover to part XVIII is a variant to that called for by Hatton and Cleaver with the header "Public Applause" in place of the called for"The Spring Season". As often there are a few trivial variations to the rear adverts as called for by Hatton & Cleaver: part III lacking rear ads (1), (3), and (4); part V with an uncalled for 2 pp. ad for The National Cyclopedia and lacking the errata slip; part X lacking rear ad (2); part XI lacking the rear slip; part XII the rear ad for Kaye's Worsdell's Pills is a variant with the header "Important Testimonials" in place of "Question! Question! Question!"; part XVI lacking Punch slip at front and rear ad; part XVII lacking the front slip and rear ad; part XIX lacking rear ads (3), (4), & (5), ad (2) only 4 pp. and ad (6) only 6 pp. Copies almost never conform exactly to Hatton & Cleaver's exhaustive collation. Eckel, pp. 74-76; Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 227-250. 20 numbers bound in 19 monthly parts as issued. Original green wrappers printed in black, the textual numbers with designs by Phiz. Housed in 2 custom straight-grain morocco-backed marbled paper board and cloth chemises. With 40 etched and lithographic plates by Phiz (Hatton and Cleaver noting there is no priority of issue between the etchings and lithographs); plate 35 being the first published example of a "dark plate". Morocco book label of one William Bunker to neatly repaired chemises. Neat ownership inscriptions to head of front wrappers of part IV, VI, VIII, IX, XVII. Wrappers slightly browned, creasing and nicks to extremities, overall a very good set. Plates browned in part VI, IX, XVII, small paper repair to part XIX & XX.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of DOMBEY AND SON [20 parts in 19]. , 1846.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: [a handsome set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in October 1846 and ending in April 1848. The serialization of this novel began upon the end of serialization of OLIVER TWIST (the scarcest of all "Dickens in parts," occurring eight years after its publication in book form); until OLIVER TWIST these monthly parts of Dickens's works were issued by Chapman & Hall, but were now being issued by Bradbury & Evans. Part XVIII of DOMBEY AND SON includes the first so-called "dark plate" (appropriately, "On the dark Road") to appear in a Dickens work -- possible due to a new process; there would be another in DAVID COPPERFIELD, followed by ten in BLEAK HOUSE and eight in LITTLE DORRIT. At the end of serialization, DOMBEY AND SON was published in book form -- the preliminary leaves for which are supplied at the end of the final monthly part. As for issue points (there are three), this set like most is mixed: it reads "Capatin" on p. 324 (the uncommon 1st state), "if" is absent on p. 426 (1st state), and "431" is present on that page (2nd state) -- curious, in that pages 426 and 431 are in the same part. (The word "Delight" on page 284 is a faux issue point, since all copies in parts have that error.) This is a very good-plus set -- fine in appearance, because all the wrappers (front and rear) are unusually clean; six of the front wrappers bear the small ink-stamp of "Webster & Co., 60 Piccadilly". Two of the rear wrappers (I and XVI) are "borrowed" from a different part, and all the delicate (plain) spines are expertly renewed. Notably, this set has ALL the advertisements and slips that are specified in the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography for a complete set. All the plates have varying degrees of darkening or foxing in the margins, but only Part II has plates that are significantly foxed. In all, an absolutely complete, clean set, with allowances for the "renewals." Hatton & Cleaver pp 225-250. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with morocco spine.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$3952.46 + shipping
Description: Plates. Orig. pale blue printed wrappers. Overall a v.g. well-preserved set in a handsome red morocco & gilt slipcase. Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A very attractive set, retaining all wrappers, plates and preliminary material, and most of the original advertisements & slips. Nine of the nineteen parts are complete as issued; the omissions in the other parts are as follows: 1. No Dombey and Son Advertiser preceding text. 2. No slip facing the D&S Advertiser. 5. No errata slip preceding plates; one leaf removed from following ads. With an additional 4pp ads at beginning for the 'National Cyclopaedia'. 6. No slip preceding the D&S Advertiser; no 1p. following ad. for a Portrait of a Horse. The 8pp following ad. for Educational Works is, unusually, printed on green paper. 10. Additional slip at front: Every Man His Own Gardener. No following ad. for Gilbert's Dictionary. 12. No following ads. Small neat repair in following wrapper. 14. No D&S Advertiser preceding text. 16. No slip to follow plates or 4pp following ads. Outer margin of front wrapper neatly reinforced. 17. Slip at front is for Punch, not the Life of Goldsmith. 19/20. No Jarrold ads; Lea & Perrins ad. in 4pp not 8pp; first leaf of D&S Advertiser sl. torn in outer margin.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm with "delight" for "joy" on page 284. Octavo, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing all advertisements as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and chemise pull-off case. Scarce and desirable. Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers, and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity⦠Dickens told his first biographer, 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor [Martin Chuzzlewit] has done with Selfishness" (Schlicke, 280). The work "has a sense of the numinous, is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things, than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception, so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end, so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it⦠Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" (Ackroyd, 526). The original serials contain the first of Browne's "dark plates" ("On the dark Road," in part 18), created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate, creating heightened contrast (Johannsen, Phiz, 309).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. An attractive set of the original 20 parts issued in 19 (#19 is a double issue) of the first edition Charles Dickens great work, DOMBEY AND SON, published in green printed wrappers by Bradbury and Evans in London from October, 1846, to April, 1848. This set includes 40 plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz), with the Dombey and Son Advertiser in each part. This is a near-fine set in with the spines intact and virtually no foxing. It is contained in a nice cloth presentation case. Overall, a lovely set in collector's condition. We buy Dickens First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight. Dombey and Son. , 1846.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: "DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $5500.First edition, first issue in scarce original parts of Dickens' novel of "Pride," with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne ("Phiz"), including the famous first "dark plate." An excellent copy in the original parts, with all of the advertisements called for.For its inclusion of fairy-tale themes and the much discussed demise of Paul Dombey, Dombey and Son "has a sense of the numinous, is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things, than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception, so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end, so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" (Ackroyd, 526). Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers, and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity Dickens told his first biographer, 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor [Martin Chuzzlewit] has done with Selfishness" (Schlicke, 280). Dombey and Son contains the first of Browne's so-called "dark plates" ("On the dark Road," in part 18), created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate so as to heighten the contrast between black and white (Johannsen, Phiz, 309). First-issue text, with the following first-issue points: page 284 with "Toot's Delight" mentioned twice instead of "Toot's Joy"; page 324 with "Capatin" on the last line; page 426 with blank space at the beginning of line 9; and two-line errata slip in the preliminary pages at the rear of Part 19/20, rather than eight. Text, preliminaries, and illustrations are all present, as are all wrappers. All advertisements called for are present. Hatton and Cleaver, 227-250. Only mild foxing to several plates, text generally clean. Some neat and unobtrusive repairs to several spines, light edge-wear and creasing to fragile paper wrappers, less than often seen. An exceptional copy in parts in the original wrappers, quite scarce and desirable with all advertisements."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son (20 Parts in 19). Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published in 20 parts issued in 19. A beautiful set published from October 1946 to April 1848 in the ORIGINAL wrappers. All the wrappers are present with minor repairs with all 40 plates by H. K. Browne. The pages are clean with some discoloration and wear along the edges. This lovely set was First published in England in these original parts and precedes the American Edition in parts. Overall, a wonderful set housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy Dickens in the original parts.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son (ORIGINAL 20 parts in 19). Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, in the twenty original parts, bound in nineteen with the last number containing parts XIX-XX. All 20 original green printed wrappers are original and are correct. The Dombey & Son Advertiser is present in each part. This copy has the following early issue points. Part V has the important twelve line errata slip present. Part IX, page 284, 5th and 6th line up, with "Delight" for "Joy." Part XI, page 324, last line, "Captain" is misspelled "Capatin." Part XIII has the earliest state of the Advertiser, with the date "October, 1847" printed without error. Part XIX/XX the title page erroneously shows Captain Cuttle's hook on his left hand. Part XIX/XX is dated "April 1848" the earliest state according to Hatton and Cleaver. A fabulous set with minor repair housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy Dickens in the original parts.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$20468.08 + shipping
Description: Half title, plates. With the original green variant cloth casing, bound into full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, triple-ruled borders & dentelles in gilt; spine very sl. faded. A very handsome copy. In cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of the first one-volume edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with George Cruikshank's original watercolour design of Fagin in the Condemned Cell. This constitutes one of Cruikshank's finest and most recognisable Dickens illustration, portraying the wretched Fagin seated in his cell at Newgate, anxiously awaiting the day of his execution, and contemplating his demise. Bound in opposite the plate at p.304, the watercolour is signed by Cruikshank, and also adorned, in the lower margin, with a small self-portrait in pencil, and three further unidentified sketched portraits.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom