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Dickens, Charles. Christmas Books. Chapman and Hall, 1852.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Signed by the previous owner. No edition stated. Complete. The boards are very worn, in poor condition. Early edition, 1852. Pressed boards. Publication of 266 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text remains legible. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Books. Chapman and Hall, London, 1852.
Price: US$386.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some foxing to frontispiece and title-page, rest clean and bright. Corners light bumped, front hinge lightly cracked, binding is tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Chapman and Hall, London, 1852.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece (with illustration after Leech). First English collected edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Former owner's early blindstamp address at upper margin of title page and two other preliminary pages (neatly blindstamped, with two-line address in Dublin, but without an owner's name); olive green cloth has faded to a brownish-green on spine and extremities of covers (as usual), lower edge of spine is nicked, with short tear, few small (early) soil spots on front cover, tips of corners moderately bumped, else a very good copy, with text generally fresh and clean
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Chapman & Hall, London, 1852.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp: [iv][1-3]4-266 [1]. The First Collected Edition of the Christmas Books. Bound in full deep red leather decorated with Dickens' book plate, and trimmed in gilt. Raised bands and gilt trim to spine. All edges rough cut.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$1690.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: To even find books this old uncut is incredibly rare. To find such a early and sought after dickens title in original cloth is something else. The whole book is uncut. From the first page of a christmas carol. I am guessing the pages before the actual stories where not uncut from the start. The book has a beautiful ex-libris note stitched on inner-side of front-board. A part on upper part of spine has been reglued. The book has some small wear and scuffs but is in overall good condition still. The pages are uncut and thus this volume has never been read.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
DICKENS (Charles). Christmas Books. Chapman and Hall, London, 1852.
Price: US$2253.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Frontispiece by John Leech. Printed in double columns. First authorized collected edition, with a new preface by Dickens. 8vo. [190 x 122 x 22 mm]. [4], 266, [2] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full scarlet morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border and broken panel with a sprig of mistletoe blocked in the corners and large holy sprig at the centre, with dots, the spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with centres and corners, the turn-ins tooled with gilt single and double fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom