Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$16.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1871-01-01. John Camden Hotten. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles. Half leather with blue cloth boards. Edgewear. 8x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$111.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 428, [32]ads. numerous plates (some folding) & text illus. by George Cruikshank & others. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (cloth lightly spotted, extremities frayed).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Cruikshank, George. The Comic Almanack 1835-43. John Camden Hotten, London, 1871.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: Attractive copy of this excellent satirical work. In original pebble-grained green cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations. Hundreds of illustrations by Cruikshank. 388pp text + publisher's catalogue for 1871 at rear. Some puckering to spine cloth and minor rubbing to extremities, but a clean and sound copy of a book more commonly found rebound or in pieces.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In good condition. Lightly scuffed boards with rubbing to extremities. Partial fading to front board of 1844-47 volume. Corners rubbed slightly exposing board. Gilt finishing to spine bright and intact. Marbled end papers. Old hand ownership dated 1880 on front flyleaves. Marbled fore edges are toned, faded. Interiors in nice condition with light age-toning. Heavier foxing to primary leaves. All fold-outs in good working order. Tissue guards toned, but intact. Free of known markings. Bindings tight and intact. A sound set! Please see photos. A nicely bound set of this richly illustrated humorous almanac spanning nine years. George Cruikshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK,GEORGE. THE COMIC ALMANACK 1835-43. JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, 1871.
Price: US$271.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very light wear to extremities, second series spine sunned, otherwise a very good set in very nice bindings. Numerous illustrations including fold-outs. sm8vo. 388: 428 pp. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, single raised band, gilt spine decorations, embossed character illustrations on spines, top edges gilt.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK,GEORGE. THE COMIC ALMANACK 1835-43. JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, 1871.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION,HINGES ARE SOLID
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Cruikshank, George - Illustrator. The Comic Almanack 1835-1853. John Camden Hotten, London, 1871.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 388p; [28]; 428p, [28]. Publishers decorated blue cloth with the original green linen dust jackets. A later reprint. An undated edition but presumable printed in 1871 Both volumes include an inserted catalogue of "Very Important New Books Special List for 1871" at the end. It includes a useful preliminary leaf outlining some of the history relating to the publishing of the original edition. Institutional stamp in the blind on the title page and shelf mark in pencil on the title page verso. Preliminary leaf reinforced at the inner margin with a minor tear, otherwise a fresh clean copy.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes; 5 1/8 inches x 7 5/8 in. x 2 in. (thick); Volume 1: half-title; frontispiece; title-page with design; preliminary note by John Camden Hotten. 338 pp. Volume 2: notice; fold-out frontispiece; title-page with design. 428 pp. Reproduces the illustrations from the Comic Almanacks (1835-53), both as plates (several are fold-outs), and as in-text illustrations. Bound with dark green morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, with a single rasised band on each spine, below the gilt-lettered titles; with inlaid leather designs on each spine: a figure in 18th century dress, holding a pair of boots, on volume one, and a figure holding a coach whip, on volume two, with green cloth over boards; sewn headbands, red silk bookmarker ribbons bound in each volume, top-edges gilt, light green marbled endpapers. The spines have faded to brown, slight wear to the leather surface on the outer hinges of the covers, with a scratch to the leather, running across the upper front side and corner-piece on the second volume; the page margins show some age-related tanning. Overall, condition is near fine. A bookseller, or former owner has identified the bindings as being: "Kelliegram Bindings", in penciled notes in the front of the volumes. No Kelliegram stamps are present, but they are in the Kelliegram style. Weight: 4 1/2 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.