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Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Guild, Boston, 1848.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Description: spine worn, something ate about one inch long and a quarter inch deep on about half the pages
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and son. Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 13,5 x 21 cm, 624 pp. First trade edition. Rebound, half-leather, without the original covers. Two plates missing. The odd spot and stain, otherwise, good. The Book Cellar & Henschel.
Seller: Daniel Zachariah, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Price: US$38.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Frontispiece, extra engraved title & plates, 8vo (8 1/2x 5 1/2 inches),624-pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with lettering piece. Binding rubbed, splits to outer upper joint, upper inner hinge cracked. Plates very foxed, page 591/92 detached and chipped and browned on margins. Inscriptions on front fly. Bound without the half-title.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early variant of a classic book. Brown leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Boards are unevenly faded and a bit scraped. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is faded and rubbed with a small loss to the top where the leather has been damaged. Textblock has some fox and some water stains mainly affecting the plates where the paper is different. 624 pp. Previous owner's bookplate. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1145g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £13.90 (Europe) and £28.95 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 029908:5a) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall 1145 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1848.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illus by H. K. Browne, 8.5 x 5.5", 1/2 calf, marbled boards, 624pp, front cover hinge completely detached, few pp loose, plates, incl. extra title, spooted, covers rubbed. FIRST BOOK EDITION, lacks errata leaf, & possibly a later issue.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.61 + shipping
Description: , 624 pages with 16 introductory pages and a 6 line errata page at rear, illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and vignette title page 38 indexed plates and two further series of additional Chapman & Hall plates - portraits of Edith, Little Paul, Florence and a second series of 8 plates of characters, Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284) An early printing with 52 plates in total First Edition , lacking covers, edges worn faded and slilghtly dog-eared, plates foxed, poor condition , disbound, marbled edges with curved foredge, octavo, 21.5 x 15 cms Book ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury And Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, half calf, Ex libris Henry Cooke. Later state. Has dark plate at p. 547. p. 324, last line Capitan is uncorrected; p. 284 lines 5 & 6 from bottom of page have Delight instead of Joy; if is present on line 9 p. 426. Illustrated by Phiz.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.27 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, POINTS OF ISSUE - Cuttles left arm a 'hook' on frontispiece but NOT on page 239, the word 'if' is missing on page 426 line 9, word 'delight' instead of 'joy' on page 284 5th lowest line, word 'capatin' instead of 'captain' last line of page 324, 'fidgetty' used page 26 line 11, word 'shew' instead of 'show' on page 40 line 20, no full stop on last line of page 582, blue cloth boards, gilt stamped lettering to spine, frontispiece, illust title page with tissue guard, xvi + 624 pp, illust, TATTY ( heavy fading to spine, moderate bruising to spine edges & board corners, boards exposed at corners & lower spine edges, slight chaffing to boards, heavy cracking to rear hinge, front gutter & page 607, slight cracking to front hinge, medium sized ex libris sticker to front pastedown, light sporadic soiling & foxing throughout especially to illustrations & to page edges )
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$108.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition first impression from 1948 in good condition with the following first issue points: title-page vignette has Capt. Cuttle's hook erroneously drawn on his left arm; p. xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.582, the last line has no full stop. Half leather binding with some loss to paper on front boards,the book has heavy foxing, all pages are attached however two are not flush with the page block, 38 plates as called for, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$119.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 1st Edition. 8vo. 624pp. Wood engravings by H.K. Browne. Half green leather and marble hardcover with four raised bands and gilt de's to spine. Marbled closed edges of text block. Boards wilth clear protective covering. Minior flexibility to boards. Old sellotape residue on ep's. Name penned on ffep. Lightly age toned. Binding firm, text & images bright. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SOLD AS IS. 3/4 Leather and marbled boards, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches,624 pages. Marbled end papers and marbled edges. Top edge of spine chipped and darkened, Final blank page half missing, all plates foxed on the edges. The following first edition points present: Title page vignette has Capt. Cuttie's hook on his left hand. No page listed for frontis and no quotes on "The Party" on plate listing page. Page 14 aint without apostrophe. Page 27 "fidgetty" at line 11. Page 40 shew and shewed for show and showed. Page 284 Delights instead of joy. Page 324 Capatin. Parge 582 on final period.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. This is a Good copy of the First Edition - made up from parts, with points indicating the First Printing. Brown cloth binding; spine has an old leather repair tape covering any titling. Clean text; two frontis illustrations, xvi, [errata], 624 pages. All page edges marbled, but faded. Textblock is in nice shape but the illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") are all toned. The front gutter has cracked rather badly, with the endpaper and first illustration present but loose. Please note the condition issue. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration. An excellent candidate for a nice rebind. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Half-Leather half marbled boards, elaborately tooled gilt design on spine with 5 raised bands. 12 line errata slip after list of 40 plates including. uncorrected "capatin" page 324 last line, lines 5 and 6 from bottom of page 284 have "delight" instead of "joy." . engraved title page lacking frontis. Book Condition: Good, corners bumped, marbled boards scratched. Title page heavily foxed, plates heavily foxed at edges. inner joints cracked. 624 pages Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Dickens. Dombey and son first print 1848 Charles Dickens very good. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: :) In very good condition tight binding!
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Price: US$142.72 + shipping
Description: XVI, 642 S., mit zahlr. Holzschnitte Gebraucht; Einband unfachmenisch geklebt, Innnendeckel m. Eigentümervermerk, Papier stockfleckig, innen mit Bemerkungen- und Anstreichungen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8°, OHldr. auf 4 Bünden mit Goldpräg.
Seller: Kepler-Buchversand Huong Bach, Weil der Stadt, Germany
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: CHARLES DICKENS. Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.Octavo, first book edition, pp. xvi, 2 (errata), 626, marbled boards half-bound in black calf with gilt lettering and devices to spine, frontispiece and vignette title page, lacking the half-title called for by Walter Smith, 36 illustrated plates by H.K. Browne or "Phiz" (2 plates are missing -- "Miss Tox introduces the party" and "The Dombey family" -- and 1 plate is hand-colored). A very early printing, with 65 of the 73 internal flaws identified by Smith, and only 2 lines on the errata page.Condition of this book:Plates browned, as is typical of this book, text leaves relatively bright, with sporadic soiling and edge tears. Front joint starting, covers edge-worn, gilt faded, binding weak but sound; overall fair. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Illustrator: H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; England; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55153.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Guild, 1848.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "DOMBEY AND SON" by Charles Dickens. 1848 1st edition; Bradbury and Guild; Boston. With numerous full-page illustrated plates by H.K. Browne. Three-quarter leather binding with gilt lettering and 5 raised bands on the spine. Marbled end papers and marbled page edges on all sides. Condition: Some scuffing to the leather on the spine; worn corners; there is a 1" tear at the top-right corner of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. The illustration after page 156 has a large piece missing at the bottom-left corner.the illustration is not affected, though the descriptive text is. Old "Private Library" label affixed to the front pastedown. Pages 5-8 are present but have detached. The pages are mostly clean with only some mild foxing. A blank front end paper has an old name label affixed and "No. 291" written in pen. Page 9 has a name/date (1868) written in pencil in the outer margin.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 624 pp. With Illustrations by H. k. Browne. 8vo, old half calf, marbled boards; all edges marbled. First edition, later issue. Plates browned, mostly at the edges; light rubbing to binding, which is tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, England, 1848.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 624 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Marbled edges and endpapers. Cover is protected in mylar cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001914. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. Bound in 19th century 3/4 very dark blue calf. with modern red calf spine labels, and marbled paper boards; joints rubbed, rear one splitting 1" at top, and front along length, yet both holding firm; top of spine lightly worn, with minor loss; corners rubbed at edges. Plates heavily foxed (as usual), text very minorly so; pp.215-18 provided in photocopy; two-line errata following list of plates. Pity about the copied pages, otherwise, not a bad copy.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$152.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Dombey and Son' by Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans 1848 first edition. Early issue. Half leather binding, somewhat worn with spine splits. Lacks front endpaper. Spotting to preliminary pages and plates as is normal. Good.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$152.97 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: All first edition, first printing points. Rebound, with non-removeable marbled paper covering, handwritten title label to spine. Chipped. Marbled closed edges faded. Rear board detached but extant. Gutters cracked. Some browning to plates, else pp clean and bright. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Forty full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. Early issue with following points -- two line errata leaf, no half title, vignette title with Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284), page number 431 present. ECKEL pp.74-76. SMITH 1:8. YALE/GIMBEL A103. Interior contents and plates generally clean, toning to back cover paste-down and free endpaper, extremities and joints rubbed, binding firm and tight. 19th century half olive calf and marbled boards. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$164.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xvi, 624 pp,40 illustrations, age and paper related tanned pages, gebraucht, gut erhaltenes Exemplar, good copy, traces of use, spotted, good copy, 16103 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 860
Seller: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Germany
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", 3/4 green morocco; marbled boards; teg, 624pp, cover quite worn, leather abraded, extremities bumped and worn, 3" drip mark on front cover near hinge, hinges starting, front marbled fly detached (but present), former owner's ink inscription on front blank, scattered spotting (especially on illus. and endpapers); still, a good, readable copy. FIRST EDITION, but later issue with some of the points from Walter E. Smith's Bibliographic Catalogue corrected; with 6-line errata page and 11-line errata slip tipped-in.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles; BROWNE, H. K. (illus.). Dombey and Son. Chapman and Hall, London, 1848.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xvi, 624 p. 23 cm. No frontispiece. Title page vignette and 38 other b&w plates, as called for. Original green cloth with blank impressing. Corners worn, spine faded, tears in rear hinge and spine ends. Hinges cracking internally, blue pencil crayon marks on front free endpaper. Stain on top edge affecting upper margins and plates. Plates foxed or stained. Printers Bradbury and Evans, Printers, on rear of second title page. All necessary points, including 8 line errata page, vignette on title page has Cuttie's hook on left hand, p. 284 fifth line from bottom says "Delight" instead of Joy, p. 14 ten lines from bottom ain't spelled as "aint", p. 26 line 11 "fidgetty".
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$203.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Book complete with 38 plates, pp xvi,624, 1st printing
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey And Son. Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: US$203.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a first edition of Dickens' 7th serialized novel, 'Dombey and Son' smartly bound in contemporay half-calf. This edition carries several first state hallmarks, including the vignette of Captian Cuttle with hook on his left arm, no page entry for the frontis and title page on page ixv, p.14 'aint' has no apostrophe, p.582's last line has no full stop. The book includes 38 plates by H.K. Bronwe (Phiz) and an engraved frontispiece and vignette to title page. Very Good Condition. Half-bound in brown calf with marble paper covered boards. Bound by Simms & Dinham of Manchester. Binding is firm and pages are light tanned. Plates carry the usual light browning and foxing that is common with Dickens plates. Boards have light edge-wear with minor peeling to leather at corners and spine ends. Spine is sound and gilt lettering remains bright.
Seller: Hewett's Books, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$203.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, bound from the individual parts as the stab holes near the spine indicate. The copy has all the first issue points noted below, half title (name written thereon), two line errata leaf after the list of plates. All the 38 engraved plates and the engraved title page are also present and in good condition for this title, with some light spotting but never too bad (title page, pictured, is as bad as they get). However there are 6 leaves missing, namely pages 387-398 (in other words, only the outer leaves of section cc are bound in). Bound in half leather, marbled boards, brown endpapers, edges powdered red. Binding in good sound condition with little wear, pages very good. Complete apart from the missing pages mentioned. First issue points are: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the title page; title-page vignette has Capt. Cuttle's hook erroneously drawn on his left arm; p. xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on page 324; 'if' is missing as first word of page 426 line 9; p.582, the last line has no full stop.
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$216.71 + shipping
Description: An early mixed issue of one of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, complete with the original striking plates of Phiz. Bound in two volumes, with the engraved title to Volume I, and typed title to Volume II.The first edition, early mixed issue of this work, bound from the parts with stab holes to the gutter. Issue points present: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; no quotation marks around the word 'party' to page XV line 2; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284 5 lines up from the bottom; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14 10 lines up from the bottom; 'shewed' and 'shew' to for 'showed' and 'show' to page 40 lines 16 and 17; 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; and no full stop to the final line to page 582.Issue points not present: entry for the frontispiece and vignette to the list of plates; 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on page 324; and 'if' is present to page 426 line 9.Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in his 1913 publication 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.Volume I illustrated with frontispiece, vignette title, and twenty plates.Volume II illustrated with eighteen plates.Bound without the half-title and additional errata slip, however all plates are present, including the dark plate. Plate 35, 'On the Dark Road' facing page 547, is the first published example of a 'dark plate'."Dombey and Son" is about Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company, who intends to pass down ownership of his company to his son, ignoring his daughter, Florence. The novel tells the story of their family, and their hopes and fearsDickens 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.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, most often known by his pen-name 'Phiz'. As Phiz, he illustrated many of Dickens' novels, including 'David Copperfield', 'Dombey and Son', and 'Bleak House', as well as illustrating for 'Punch' throughout his life. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, worn. Lacking the head of the spine of Volume II. Front joint of Volume II has failed, board still attached to the text block due to a prior owner's tape repair to the gutter.Front hinge of Volume II is a little strained. Rubbing to the boards and spines, heavier to the marbled paper. Minor bumping to the extremities, and to the head and tail of the spine of Volume I, where the head of the spine is lifting a little. Tide mark to the joints of Volume I. Hinges are starting but firm. Damp stain to the front paste down, front endpapers, and first few pages of Volume I. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpapers. Light marks to the endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting, mostly to the plates. Page 17/18 is detached but present. Pages 1-4 are detaching. Tide mark to the head of the first quarter of the text of Volume II. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$219.57 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. Mit gest. Frontispiz u. Titelvign. u. 38 Stahlstichtafeln mit Illustrationen von H. K. Browne (Phiz). XVI, 624 S. Späteres Hldr. m. Rückengoldprägung. Marmorschnitt. Erste Buchausgabe, früher Druck, mit einigen Satzfehlern ("Capatin" auf Seite 324), ohne Erratabl. - Einband gering berieben, die Taf. meist etw. stockfleckig. gr.
Seller: Antiquariat Düwal, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$223.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First book edition of novel, bound from parts (stab marks evident), octavo, contemporary half calf, five band and gilt decoration on spine, marbled boards, general rubbing and wear to extremities, marbled end papers, early ownership label on front end paper, splitting between end papers and text block but binding holding and text block tight, foxing to outer leaves and usual spotting to plates, very light occasional foxing to text, frontispiece, engraved title page and 38 other plates, xvi plus 624 pages. Overall a good copy. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$223.08 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. Nicely bound in contemporary half purple-brown morocco over purple-brown pebble-grained cloth boards, the spine with six raised bands, ruled in gilt, and with titles in gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page and 38 further plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Extra-illustrated with 12 additional plates by Browne depicting the principal characters of the novel (52 engraved plates in total). Two-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacks half-title. A good copy, the binding square and firm with some marking to the boards and bumping to the corners. The contents with spotting to the plates (as commonly encountered), two plates with a small nick to the edge with neat old paper repairs to the verso, a 2.5cm hole to the bottom of one plate (between pp.564-5) with loss to the caption, 2cm clipped from the head of the printed title page (apparently to remove a previous owner's signature) and with subsequent owner's name in ink, a small chip to the blank bottom-left corner of p.xv, a 3cm tear to p.219, a paper-repaired tear to p.495/6, a few small nicks to some pages at the gutter from the binding process, and the odd mark to the text pages, more so to p.213, are otherwise in good order. The first edition in book form of Dicken's 'Dombey and Son', the novel being originally issued in monthly parts between 1846 and 1848. An attractive extra-illustrated copy.
Seller: Sky Duthie Rare Books, Sheffield, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles 1812-1870. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London: 11, Bouverie Street., 1848.
Price: US$223.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1848, G, 1st ed, 40 pls. In half calf over worn blue marbled boards, some blind tooling, edged rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to green calf label. Internally, frontis, additional engraved title page, [7], (xii-xvi), [1] 8 line errata, [1], [1], 2-624 pp, 40 pls (complete), lacks the half title, ink name tipped to ffep (Mary Grace Haddock 1891), with the usual foxing & edge browning. (135 *214 mm). (has most of the flaws in Smith Part 1/8. Gimbel A103-conforms mostly to the 3rd copy).
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles; Browne, H.K. [illustrator]. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xvi, 624 pages. First edition in book form. In Very Good condition. Rebacked in half marbled paper boards and green leather, with original spine and boards preserved. Mild shelfwear. Rubbing to front and rear boards. Foxing and age-toning to textblock. Signature of previous owner on front pastedown. Features illustrations throughout by Browne. Shelved in Case 13. First Issue points present include: lines 5 and 6 from bottom of page 284 have "delight" instead of "joy" uncorrected. "Capatin" on last line of page 324. Hook on left hand of vignette on title page. Page xv has no page number for fronispiece and vignette, and no quote marks on "party." "Shew" and "shewed" uncorrected on page 40. No period at last line on page 582. 1371342. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$229.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens with illustrations by H. K. Browne (Phiz) Published by Bradbury & Evans in 1848. A First Edition bound from the parts. Size: 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches. Page number: 624. Hardcover. Marbled paper boards with embossed calfskin spine and gilt lettering. with 38 full page black and white illustrations that include the 'dark plate' on page 547 (see image)*, the four portraits of Edith, Florence, Alice and Paul, plus frontispiece and vignette. Condition: Good. The boards are worn and the spine scuffed and rubbed through at the top edge; but the whole still holds together well. The endpaper, frontispiece and title page are marked by damp, and the plates browned, foxed and marked. The title page and frontispiece are probably the worst affected by foxing; but all are to some degree. A few engravings have historic repairs to the fore edge and other places where there has been damage, and that of Edith has actually been backed with another piece of paper. The pages of script are occasionally marked by foxing most particularly those at the front and the back of the book. Those in the middle are generally clean. * Dombey & Son contains the first published example of what was known as dark plate. It was created using a machine process which tinted the etched plate and so heightened the black and white contrast.
Seller: Bluebird Books, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the firm of Dombey & Son. London: Bradbury & Evans., 1848.
Price: US$229.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Pp xvi [ii], 624. A very attractive near contemporary binding of half calf gilt with contrasting spine, marbled boards, and matching marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, edges speckled. Half title present, so that prelims run: half title, engraved frontis, engraved title page, printed title page, dedication, preface, contents, list of plates and unnumbered errata leaf, which has a printed slip pasted on with the errata for pages 97-126. Bookseller label Joseph Pollard, Truro and Penzance to front pastedown. Plates somewhat foxed, as often with this title, but otherwise a very nice item indeed.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$238.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1848 First Edition. Size Octavo, 8.25" x 5.25", 624 pages. Recently professionally rebound in dark green half calf, over marbled boards, new endpapers. Condition very good, binding in fine condition, lacks half-title, pages lightly toned, other than this in clean condition, some light spotting to plates, and also light browning, mainly in the margins. Six line Errata page bound in between the end of the list of plates and page 1. Captain Cuttle's Hook is on his left hand on the vignette on the engraved title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half morocco over marbled boards, 4 raised band, 5 compartments, paper label. Lacks errata and half title. VERY GOOD head of spine shows minor wear, rubbing and abrasions to boards, light rubbing to spine, shelf wear, with English postage stamp of Dickens saying :A Tribute to Genius" affixed. Frontispiece and vignette TP toned, some foxing to plates with offsetting to some opposing pages, mild foxing to some other pages.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xvi+624 pages with frontispiece and extra illustrated title and illustrations by H K Browne ("Phiz"). Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in half navy calf over marbled boards. First edition in book form. Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before returning to England, via Paris, to complete it. Illustrations were provided by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'). There is some evidence to suggest that Dombey and Son was inspired by the life of Christopher Huffam, Rigger to His Majesty's Navy, a gentleman and head of an established firm, Huffam & Son. Charles Dickens' father, John Dickens, at the time a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, asked the wealthy, well-connected Huffam to act as godfather to Charles. This same Huffam family appeared later in Charles Palliser's 1989 The Quincunx, an ambitious homage to the Dickensian novel form. As with most of Dickens' work, a number of socially significant themes are to be found in this book. In particular the book deals with the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain. Other themes to be detected within this work include child cruelty (particularly in Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, and as ever in Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof. Another strong central theme, which the critic George Gissing elaborates on in detail in his 1925 work The Immortal Dickens, is that of pride and arrogance, of which Paul Dombey senior is the extreme exemplification in Dickens' work. Condition: Text block detached from backstrip, rubbing to boards, scattered foxing, ephemera indicating that the book belonged to one of Dicken's partners tipped to front end paper else a good to very good copy.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition in period 3/4 gilt calf extra, raised bands, marbled boards and black gilt calf title label , pretty binding, some wear to joints, else very good with marbled edges. Mixed states two title pages, no half title page, 38 illustrations engraved by Phiz, some scattered foxing, mostly on plate edges. Size: 8vo
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.40 + shipping
Description: Hardback 8vo. approx 8.5 x 6 inches. Halfbound dark green polished calf with marbled paper to boards, full gilt decoration to spine with raised banding and gilt lettered leather spine label. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Deighton Binding. In very good condition. Some rubbing to boards and corners / edges. Binders label to corner of front endpaper ?Deighton, Worcester.? Neat inscription to following prelim ?George Still Clifton.? Plates with some minor mild foxing, frontis and vignette title are quite darkened, but overall very clean and bright compared to most examples of this age, and many plates still remain very clean with only some minor spots around edges. Complete with issue points (see additional notes). Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 624pp. Illustrated Frontis., pict.hf.title & 38 B&W etched plates by H.K. Browne. In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm; p.xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, l.16-17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324, p.582, the last line has no full stop and has the dark plate opposite page 547.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.95 + shipping
Description: 208 x 134mm, dark brown polished half calf, marbled boards, panelled spine, ruled & ornamented in gilt, leather lettering-piece, gilt Vol.1: pp.xvi, 320 + 2 blank leaves, errata leaf bound in before text, engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette & 20 full-page engraved plates. Vol.2: pp.[vi] 321-624 + 2 blank leaves, 18 full-page engraved plates, 'A Visitor of Distinction' serving as frontispiece. Issue points as follows: 'Capatin' for 'Captain' on p.324, last line. 'if' missing from p,431, line 9. Page numeral present on p.431. Contemporary ownership name on front free endpaper of each volume. Boards rubbed, corners worn, spine of first volume chipped at head, with furrow of insect depredation at outer joint beside lettering-piece. Plates of Vol.1 foxed, those of Vol.2 less so.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. pp xvi, 624. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, tan spine with contrasting black label, gilt title and 5 gilt decorated bands, edges speckled. Half title present, so that prelims run: half title, engraved frontis, engraved title page, printed title page, dedication, preface, contents, unnumbered two-line errata leaf and list of plates. Plates as listed plus 12 extra portrait plates of main characters interspersed throughout the text. Previous owner s bookplate to front pastedown, Albert Pyall. Plates relatively clean with only minor foxing. A very nice item.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$254.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has red leather binding with marbles boards and red leather corner reinforcement. Rubbing and bumping to corners, edges and spine ends, and some grazing to hinges. and discolouration to spine. Marbled feps and page ends. Heavy foxing to frontispiece, and foxing to illustrations throughout, to a greater or lesser degree. A smashing copy. Please contact for images.
Seller: Compass Books, Devon, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.95 + shipping
Description: Bradbury and Evans. London. 1848. First edition, early issue. Bound in half green calf gilt, marbled boards. Boards rubbed as are extremities of boards. xvi, 624 pages. Engraved frontis., vignette title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, all very badly foxed. Apart from these faults a sound copy. Early edition points are as follows. No page listed for frontis. and no quotes on "The Party" on plate listing page, Page 27 "fidgetty" at line 11 with "if" omitted from line 9 on p. 426 and Cuttle's left arm a hook on title page and plate on p239, "delight" instead of "joy" on page 284 5th line from bottom. ain't has no apostrophe on page 14 on the 10th line up from the bottom, shew and shewed on page 40 instead of show, no full stop at end of last line on page 582. Not first issue as has "Captain" not "capatan" on the last line of page 324 and page 431 is numbered.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$274.46 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. Mit gest. Frontispiz u. Titelvign. u. 38 Stahlstichtafeln mit Illustrationen von H. K. Browne (Phiz) sowie 11 zusätzlichen Taf. XVI S. 2 Bl. Errata, 624 S. Etw. späteres Hldr. m. blind- u. goldgeprägt. Rücken u. RSchild. Marmorschnitt. Erste Buchausgabe, früher Druck, mit zwei Errrata-Blättern und einigen Fehlern im Satz ("Capatin" auf Seite 324). - Zusätzlich eingebunden 11 Portraits und Illustrationen aus dem Verlag Chapman & Hall, datiert ebenfalls 1848. - Einband stärker berieben u. bestoßen, Innengelenk geringfügig gelockert. Die Hemdchen stockfleckig, vereinzelt auf die Tafeln übergreifend, sonst sauber und ordentlich. gr.
Seller: Antiquariat Düwal, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: contemporary cloth, leather label, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, illustrated by Phiz, two different errata slips (one tipped-in), marbled edges, scattered spotting to plates throughout although much cleaner than usual, bound from the original parts with stab-marks to the inner margins and with a trimmed upper cover from the parts issue loosely inserted, a nice copy; first edition; 624 pages.
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
DICKENS CHARLES. DOMBEY AND SON. LONDON BRADBURY AND EVANS, 1848.
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, ELABORATE GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE. T.E.G. ILLUSTRATED BY H K BROWNE. SOME RUBBING TO THE LEATHER, FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. AND THE USUAL DARKENING TO THE EDGES OF THE PLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND. OVERALL VERY GOOD.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xvi, (ii), 624 pp. 19th century dark green half morocco over matching ribbed cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel, gilt decorated to other compartments, gilt rules to sides, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Frontispiece, title vignette and thirty-eight plates, extra illustrated with 4 additional engraved portraits bearing Chapman and Hall imprints. Extremities slightly rubbed, some browning to the plates as usual, mostly to the edges, a very good copy. Smith, 1, 8. Complete with the half title and the earlier issued two line errata, the latter bound after the preliminaries.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son. EARLY AMERICAN EDITION.. Boston: Bradbury & Guild. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Description: Front. & plate (by Phiz) preceding title; title & contents leaf with small repairs in upper margin, name erased from title. Nicely rebound in half black cloth, black leather label; some browning & staining to text, otherwise good-plus. Smith USA I, 7. Gimbel A112. This early American edition not recorded on Copac. OCLC lists several copies in American institutions.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848 [1859], 1848.
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Description: Half title, front., engr. title, 8-line errata leaf, plates by H.K. Browne; some with waterstain to lower corner. Orig. green cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt; spine slightly darkened, with sl. rubbing & small repairs. A later issue using the first edition sheets but with the reissued undated engraved title. In Smith's primary binding style with 'chain-like' plaited border.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$280.44 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front., engr. title & plates by H.K. Browne; some browning. Contemp. full black calf on heavy boards; rebacked retaining orig. sl. rubbed spine strip over black cloth.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$286.82 + shipping
Description: First issue / first edition. Bound in contemporary green half-calf over buckram boards. Gilt title on red morocco label, and gilt details to the spine and raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Complete. Rubbing to edges and light marking to boards. Small marking to p.1. where it and xvi have once been slightly stuck together. xvi, 624 [2]pp. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Some first issue points: vignette title with Captain Cuttle's hook on his left arm; p.XV line 2 no quotation marks around 'the Party'; p.14 ten lines from bottom 'aint' with no apostrophe; p.26 line 11 'fidgetty'; p.284 lines 5 and 6 from bottom 'Delight'; p.324 last line 'Captain' correctly spelled; and p.582 last line with no full stop. Some not: Errata has 8 lines; Captain spelled correctly on p.324.
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Unusual striated cloth binding with the ticket of W. Pring, Mold (Welsh border). Spotting, mostly to edges and margins of the plates. Bound from the parts.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$297.84 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. 8vo. Full marbled boards skiver label rubbing to extremities. xvi 624pp. With engrv. frontisp. additional engrv. title-page with vignette and 38 full-page engrv. plates by H.K.Brown. Foxing of the plates as usual but overall a good copy of the 1st ed. Includes errata-leaf.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$308.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front., engr. title & plates by H.K. Browne, 2 errata slips; some foxing to plates. Contemp. half dark green calf, spine gilt in compartments, black leather label; a little rubbed. Contemp. signature of Howard Simcox and later details of E. Allen. A good sound copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$318.69 + shipping
Description: [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with later engraved plates by Chapman and Hall, depicting Little Paul, Florence, Edith and Alice. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents and the page number is printed to p.431. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red, and marbled endpapers. Moderate spotting to plates and facing leaves, as well as preliminary and final blank leaves. Quite heavy spotting to frontispiece and vignette title. Moderate general wear to binding; upper joint and hinge just starting. Very good. This landmark novel weaves together a number of stories concerning a self-important merchant and his two children. Dickens takes aim at arranged marriages, and along the way deals with child cruelty, broken and abusive familial relationships, and the fears elicited by the advent of the railway - which, towards the end of his life, Dickens was to experience for himself while writing Our Mutual Friend.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/2 X 8 5/8 Inches. First English Edition in book form. Two volumes bound in half calf leather over marbled boards. Marbled gutters. Engraving (vignette) on title-page of volume one shows the "hook" on the left hand. "Captain" misspelled on page 324 of volume two. All plates present. Plate at 366 starting a bit. Contemporary name on both front end pages. Varying degrees of foxing to all 40 of the original engraved illustrations. A handsome set overall.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. , 1848.
Price: US$330.93 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Contemporary half cloth with boards (corners and edges rubbed). Spine with raised bands, morocco label and gilt (hinges rubbed). (xvi, 624pp.). With 40 illustrations by H. K. Brown including the first published example of a dark plate on pp. 547. The plate on pp. 238 has been rebound next to pp. 368. Pp. 239/340 have been rebound in-between pp. 368/369. Foxing on vignette and half title-page. Front hinge cracked. Overall a good complete copy of this 1st edition copy. NOTE: Originally published in 19 monthly instalments between 1846 and 1848, this story deals with the fortunes of the owner of a shipping firm and his relationship with his children.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$331.43 + shipping
Description: First Edition in book form, previously published as a monthly serial. Beautifully bound in rich half red leather with red marble paper covered boards. The binding is generally in good condition with the leather still fairly bright despite light sunning to the spine. There is a little surface wear to the boards and a little loss to the extremities. Light lean to the spine. Internally the binding is tight. There is a previous owner's signature to the front free endpaper and light pencil notation to one of the prelims. The pages are generally clean although there is heavy foxingtoning to most of the plates. The illustrations are by H.K. Browne. pp. xvi 624. Overall a handsome copy.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Dombey and Son", by Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans, London. 1848, first UK edition. 1848. Illustrated with 40 wonderful plates by H.K. Browne. 624p.p. It contains the majority of Smith's first edition points Quarter leather binding. Owners bookplate to inside front cover. Pages generally clean. Some foxing to plate pages. Tight binding.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$350.56 + shipping
Description: [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents. Contemporary tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to dark green label, gilt ruling to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red, with brown endpapers. Heavy spotting to frontispiece and vignette title, otherwise moderate spotting to plates with some offsetting to facing leaves. Moderate general wear to binding. Very good. This landmark novel weaves together a number of stories concerning a self-important merchant and his two children. Dickens takes aim at arranged marriages, and along the way deals with child cruelty, broken and abusive familial relationships, and the fears elicited by the advent of the railway - which, towards the end of his life, Dickens was to experience for himself while writing Our Mutual Friend.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, bound from the parts. Later half calf over marbled boards, with five raised bands, gilt titles on red morocco labels to the spine. All edges marbled. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page vignette and 38 full page plates by Halbot K. Browne. With the eight line errata leaf (mentioning 6 errors) and the twelve line errata slip. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with minor rubbing to the extremities and mild fading of the spine. The contents are spotted to the plates particularly, the frontispiece and illustrated title page but are otherwise clean throughout. Dombey and Son originally appeared in 20 numbers, bound in 19 monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. The novel was first published in book form on April 12, 1848. (Smith, Part 1: 8) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$356.93 + shipping
Description: First edition. pp.xvi,[2],624. Without the half-title, but with the eight line errata leaf. Frontispiece, vignette title and 38 etched plates by Phiz with only some light foxing. A smart and handsome copy bound in later 19th C half crushed morocco, gilt, with marbled edges & endpapers, teg. [Smith 8; Eckel 74; Shepherd 43]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$360.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is handsomely bound in brown calf with marbled boards spine has raised bands with blind tooling decoration to panels, title is in light tan panel, internally clean & tight with usual foxing to plates & end papers, book has been collated & is complete including 38 plates plus frontispiece
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$382.42 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. EARLY ISSUE. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. xvi + [i] pp. errata + 624 pp. Bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon morocco title label. gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A little edge wear to extremities and top edge slightly darkened. Some foxing of fly leaves and engraved title; elsewhere occasional scattered foxing, including spotting of three plate margins; otherwise all plates are clean and a very good copy. Illustrated by 40 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), including frontispiece and engraved title with vignette. The first book issue of Dickens's classic tale of Victorian capitalism and the early railway system. It had previously appeared in nineteen separate monthly parts, comprising twenty numbers. An early printing of Dombey and Son, still including many of the errors later corrected by Dickens, the errata printed here including only six alterations (see Smith, Part I, 8, p. 71-2). LITERATURE DICKENS LIT. FICTION 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$382.42 + shipping
Description: [vi-xi], xii-xvi. 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to FEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Sir James Clark Brook to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting, plates foxed. A handsomely bound copy of an early issue of the first edition, bound from the parts, of Dickens' seventh major novel. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$392.62 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front. & engr. title browned, plates by H.K. Browne. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt in compartments, maroon leather label; sl. rubbing to boards but overall an attractive copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contempory half calf binding with marbled boards. Gilt title embossed on morocco spine insert, elaborate and delicate gilt floral decoration on four raised bands and two additional bands at head and foot of spine. Boards and leather are rubbed at extremities with discolored spot on spine where a label may have once been affixed. Bookplate of Charles Hasketh Knowlys on front pastedown. . Contents are as described in Smith (pp 70-73) for the first state, except that the two "Internal Flaws" listed by Smith as occurring in the Table of Contents have been corrected. The other errors are present (for example, the hook is on Captain Cuttle's left arm). The book includes 38 plates, frontispiece, and vignette title page, illustrated by H. K. Browne (Phiz). It also includes the four extra plates, with tissue guards, full-page drawings of Edith, Little Paul, Florence, and Alice. Dickens' errata sheet is bound in after page xvi, and is eight lines long, describing six entries. Book is in excellent condition with tight and attractive binding. As is common for this title, the illustrations, and sometimes their versos and facing pages, are foxed. Usually but not always foxing is limited to the margins of the illustrations. Scans provided on request. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 624 pages. K1
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$413.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in gilt decorated half oasis and buckram, xvi + eight line errata + 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece, title page, vignette with the captain 's hook as his left arm and 38 full-page engraved plates by Browne including the pioneered dark plate. Apart from rubbing to edges and some offsetting/foxing of the plates, a very good early issue of the first complete book edition, evidence including : "Delight" twice appearing at page 284 instead of "Joy", “Captain” misspelled as “Capatin” in the final line of page 324 and " if " omitted from the ninth line on page 426. Plates located according to printer’s marginal identification (D D 2 and o o 2) at pages 403 and 563 were numbered as pages 408 and 565 in the list of plates. Without the half title.
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$414.29 + shipping
Description: The first edition, first issue, of this popular novel by Charles Dickens, including all of the original plates by Phiz, such as the first example of a dark plate. The first edition, first issue of this work, bound from the parts. Issue points present: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284 5 lines up from the bottom; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14 10 lines up from the bottom; and 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on page 324. Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in his 1913 publication 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.Bound from the parts with puncture marks to the gutter.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, all plates are present.Bound without the half-title, list of plates and errata.Plate 35, 'On the Dark Road' facing page 547, is the first published example of a 'dark plate'."Dombey and Son" is about Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company, who intends to pass down ownership of his company to his son, ignoring his daughter, Florence. The novel tells the story of their family, and their hopes and fearsDickens 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.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, most often known by his pen-name 'Phiz'. As Phiz, he illustrated many of Dickens' novels, including 'David Copperfield', 'Dombey and Son', and 'Bleak House', as well as illustrating for 'Punch' throughout his life.Bookplate of Frances Anne Kendrick to the front paste down. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, with some rubbing to the boards and joints, and a little to the spine. Light surface cracks to the spine. Crack to the tail of the front joint. Front hinge is a little strained but remains firm. Tape to the front paste down and recto to the front endpaper. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age toned with some foxing, mostly to the plates. Small tidemarks to a few of the plates. Bound without the half-title, list of plates and errata.Gathering from the front free endpaper to page 2. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$414.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first issue of one of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, complete with the original illustrations by Phiz, including the first published example of a dark plate. The first edition, first issue, bound from the parts with stab holes to the gutter. Issue points present: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; no quotation marks around the word 'party' to page XV line 2; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284 5 lines up from the bottom; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14 10 lines up from the bottom; 'shewed' and 'shew' to for 'showed' and 'show' to page 40 lines 16 and 17; 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; no full stop to the final line to page 582; entry for the frontispiece and vignette to the list of plates; 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on page 324; and 'if' is present to page 426 line 9.Half-title is present.Eight line errata.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates.Bound without the additional errata slip, and the final leaf of text, however all plates are present, including the dark plate. Plate 35, 'On the Dark Road' facing page 547, is the first published example of a 'dark plate'."Dombey and Son" is about Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company, who intends to pass down ownership of his company to his son, ignoring his daughter, Florence. The novel tells the story of their family, and their hopes and fearsDickens 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.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, most often known by his pen-name 'Phiz'. As Phiz, he illustrated many of Dickens' novels, including 'David Copperfield', 'Dombey and Son', and 'Bleak House', as well as illustrating for 'Punch' throughout his life. In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, a little worn, with rubbing and light marks to the boards and spine. Ring mark to the rear board, and a smaller ring mark to the front board. minor bumping to the extremities. Loss of leather to the spine. Cracks to the head and tail of the joints. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting, heavier to the plates. Bound without the final leaf of text. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: English novel; 1st book edition bound from parts; xvi, 624 pages; 3/4 red leatherbinding, re-backed; edges rubbed; corners bumped; gilt decorated spine; marbled edges; 12 plates in addition to 39 listed, all foxed; illustrations listed in pencil on original front endpaper laid in; Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) 1815-82, illustrator. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: First book edition, later issue; 8vo, pp. xiv, 624, engraved title-p. and frontispiece and 38 engraved plates; bound in slightly later full black morocco, covers with quintuple gilt border with urns and floral elements in the corners, enclosing a central ornate blind panel, gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; minor rubbing, else about fine throughout. Eckel pp. 74-6; Gimbel A-103 (sixth copy); Smith I, 8.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$448.71 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front., engr. title & plates by H.K. Browne with occasional light spotting, 13-line errata slip. Contemp. half maroon morocco, spine gilt in compartments; inner hinges sl. cracked, extremities sl. rubbed. Contemp. signature & armorial bookplate of T.L. Watkin, M.D. t.e.g. An attractive copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: COLL1848HMNX Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation by Charles Dickens, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848, ***First Edition First Issue, 624 pp, frontispiece, vignette title page, 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne including the dark plate On the Road, facing p. 547, half leather, 8.5 x 5.5 , 8vo. ***Points of First Issue: 1) In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm. 2) Frontispiece shows no pagination on page xv line 1 & no quotation marks around "the Party" on the same page line 2. 3) Page 14 ten lines from bottom: "aint" has no apostrophe. 4) Page 26 line 11: "fidgetty" misspelt. 5) Page 40 lines 16 & 17: "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show". 6) Page 284 5th and 6th lines from the bottom: "delight" instead of "joy". 7) Page 324 last line: "Capatin" instead of "Captain". 8) Page 582 last line: no period found at end of sentence. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to tips down to board. Rubbing and slight loss on boards. Toning to marbled covers. Joints tender with cracking. Spine faded, discolored with split at top compartment at first raised band. Gilt tooling bright and clean, albeit slightly rubbed. Loss at head of spine with cord exposed. Front gutter tender with cracking. All edges marbled. Free of ownership or known markings. Typical toning at edges with heavier toning at plates. Foxing at edges of plates, some light soiling. Binding intact. Please see photos. Dickens seventh novel bound from the original parts with stab holes present. First edition, first issue in book form. With the eight-line errata . COLL1848HMNX 02/24 - HKREVISION
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$456.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front. & engr. title with sl. browning to edges, plates by H.K. Browne. Sl. later half red morocco on heavy marbled boards, spine directly lettered gilt & with raised gilt bands; spine a little rubbed. Bound in after the List of Plates are four additional plates by H.K. Browne, published separately by Chapman & Hall in 1848. The four portraits are of Edith, Florence, Alice, and Little Paul.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$478.03 + shipping
Description: xiv, 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Oswald Augustus Smith to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting, offsetting. First Edition, early issue, with none of the usual first issue points (p294 has 'joy', p324 'Captain', p426 has 'if' on the ninth line), but with a Bradbury imprint rather than the later Chapman and Hall, and Cuttles' hook is mistakenly on his left hand on the engraved title vignette. A handsomely bound copy an early issue of the first edition in book form of Dickens' sixth major novel. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$478.03 + shipping
Description: [Classic literature] FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED includes errata leaf within prelims, bound from the parts, without half-title. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette and a further thirty-eight plates, plus three additional portrait plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Period-style half brown oasis morocco over marbled sides. Discreet contemporary ownership to dedication, contents toned, plates browned and spotted as expected. A very good copy in an attractive recent leather binding. This landmark novel weaves together a number of stories concerning a self-important merchant and his two children. Dickens takes aim at arranged marriages, and along the way deals with child cruelty, broken and abusive familial relationships, and the fears elicited by the advent of the railway - which, towards the end of his life, Dickens was to experience for himself while writing Our Mutual Friend.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$478.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Bound without the half title otherwise complete, with Errata leaf and all 1st state text points, including"Shewed" and "shew" on p.40, "capatin" on p.324, and "if" missing from p.426, among others. Also illustrated with 40 engraved plates by Browne (including Frontispiece and first state illustrated title page showing Captain Cuttle's hook incorrectly on his left arm). A very good copy with the usual browning to the edges of plates but still generally a nice copy. Finely bound in attractive early half rburgundy morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments double ruled and elaborately decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers.Previous owners neat inked name on front free blank endpaper. Edges of binding rubbed and bumped and boards a bit worn but still overall a very good attractive copy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$490.78 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Half title, front. & engr. title with sl. browning to edges, plates by H.K. Browne. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, olive green morocco label. A v.g. attractive copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Mixed issue. Thick octavo (21.75cm.); recent three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, top edge gilt, new endpapers; xiv,[2],[xv]-xvi,624pp.; frontispiece and additional engraved title page with the title "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation"; 41 additional plates of which 38 are called for, the extra comprised of portraits of three of the leading female characters (Florence, Edith, and Alice), also drawn by Browne. Plate facing p. 10 ("Miss Fox Introduces the Party") separated but present, plates consistently quite browned or foxed, a few bound in too tightly with title obscured, else contents Very Good in a fine new binding. GIMBEL A103; SMITH 8.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (21 x 13.6 cm). xvi, [2], 624 pages. Lacks half-title. 2-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece, title, and 38 plates (including the first example of a 'dark plate', and the first use of horizontal plates) by Hablot K. Browne, all etchings except three (those facing pp. 325, 352, and 439) are lithographs (Hatton and Cleaver noting there is no priority of issue between the etchings and lithographs). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, BOUND FROM THE PARTS, with stab holes visible in the gutter margins. With early issue points. Eckel, pp. 71-76; Grolier Dickens 155; Podeschi/Gimbel A103; Sadlier I: 687; Smith 8. Spine sunned, lower rear joint partly split, front hinge cracked by threads holding, leather a bit dry, some toning to sheets and occasional foxing, a few plate imprints shaved
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in book form, mixed state, lacking the errata slip. Octavo: xvi, 624 p. with the engraved frontispiece, title page, and 38 plates, including the "dark" plate opposite p.547, by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Full polished calf binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with morocco spine labels, decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, ornamental dentelles, new endpapers, and a ribbon marker. The bookplate of California banker and philanthropist Paul Rodman Mabury appears on the front pastedown. Light foxing and toning to a few of the plates; overall, the contents are fairly fresh. Occasional mild rubbing along the extremities; otherwise very good. Smith, Part I: 8. A compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition originally issued in parts. All first issue points with the exception of page number 431 is noted. The parts have been handsomely bound in 3/4 early twentieth-century gilt-stamped polished red morocco over pink cloth, with all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Upper corner tips mildly bumped, a few minor nicks at the spine and corner tip extremities, pink covers show some soiling, short tear to the margin of page 73, a few chips missing from the margins of pages 268 and 270 (from careless opening), the plate opposite Octavo. xvi; 624 pages. We collated and found complete with the 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne (Phiz). Including vignette title-page and frontispiece. Second title-page. Lacks half-title. Two line Errata leaf bound in. With the "dark plate" process in the plate at page 547.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 624 pp. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. 8vo, later full calf; gilt spine, by Riviere & Son, in cloth slipcase, a.e.g. First edition, with textual errors on p.324 and 426. Lacking the half-title. There is a small dented area in the center of the front board; otherwise fine. Errata slip tipped in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES.. DOMBEY AND SON.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Marbled boards. Brown leather spine labels with gilt borders. New brown endpaper. Bound without half-title. Forty illustrations by H.K. Browne (Phiz) including frontispiece and vignette title-page. Eight-line errata page bound behind the list of plates. Plates are generally clean, some peripheral foxing, vignette title-page slightly more than others. Contains most first issue points as noted in Smith 8; including Captain Cuttle's hook on his left hand in vignette title-page and plate facing p.238. This copy was bound from the original parts with stab holes easily identified. This Dickens title also contains the first example of a so-called dark plate and is found on p.547. This is also the first time that Browne created some horizontal illustrations for a Dickens work (five appear in Dombey and Son). Originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, from October 1846-April 1848. The book form was first published on April 12, 1848. 624pp. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$509.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, bound from the parts, which had appeared from October 1846 to April 1848. 8vo (215 × 130 mm), pp. xvi, 624, complete with half-title, plus engraved title, frontispiece and 38 plates. Errata (8-line) leaf bound after prelims in this copy (as often), plus additional errata slip. Occasional light spotting, but generally very clean. Bound with upper cover of one original green wrapper in later nineteenth-century polished calf, gilt panelled spine. Spine lightly rubbed, corners slightly worn. A very good copy. [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 227-250; cf. Smith, Charles Dickens, I, 8.]
Seller: Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA, Faversham, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury & Evans. 1848, 1848.
Price: US$532.84 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Attractively bound in two volumes. Front., engr. title & 8-line errata leaf vol. I, printed title vol. II, plates by H.K. Browne. Contemp. half red morocco, green moiré cloth boards, spines dec. & lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. Bookplates of the British historian Lord Elton of Headington. t.e.g.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$540.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. xvi, 624 pp., vignette title, and regular title, 39 engraved plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), errata with eight lines containing six entries placed at rear, bound in 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, all edges marbled with matching endpapers, raised bands with compartments full gilt decorated, red morocco spine label gilt, plates have the usual foxing, text clean and bright, no names or bookplates. A very nice copy. [Smith pg. 70].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$548.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: half leather, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 624 pp, first edition frontispiece and title page darkened, similar darkening and foxing to the illustrations (H.K. Browne) bookstore stamp on the front pastedown Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition in book form (scarce early issue). Contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, black morocco label, gilt title. 624 pp., extra illustrated with 40 steel-plate engravings including frontis and engraved title page. Points include: 2-line errata leaf bound after preliminaries, uncorrected "capatin" page 324 last line, lines 5 and 6 from bottom of page 284 have "delight" instead of "joy." The title is also significant as the plate "On the dark road" is the first published example of the "dark plate" mechanical printing process. A very good copy showing the typical age-toning to page edges, some light foxing and minor rubbing. Size: Thick Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Double gilt fillet ruled borders with corner florets. Gilt panelled spine with leather labels. Inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Bound by Chas. J. Sawyer, London. Bound with half-title page present. Eight-line errara page. Double vignette title-page with tissue-guard intact. Marble endpapers. Illustrated with forty full-page plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz) . Plates show some peripheral browning and plates before page 249 show water-stain at top edge. (See photo). This Dickens title contains the first so-called "dark plate" at p.547, and for the first time, Phiz created five horizontal plates. This is a mixed state first edition with first issue points of Captain Cuttle's hook on his left arm, "Joy" for "Delight" on p.284. "Capatin" has been corrected to "captain" on p.324. "Aint" has no apostrophe on p.14. A very pleasing binding. 624pp. See Smith 1:8, Eckel pp.71-74. Size: Thick Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].. Dombey And Son.. London: Bradbury And Evans, 1848., 1848.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [vii]-xvi, 624. lacking half-title & [pp. xvii-xviii]. 12-line errata slip. 40 etched plates (incl. frontis. & additional title) by Hablot Knight Browne. contemporary half calf, rebacked with faded gilt spine mounted (binding quite rubbed, corners worn, browning to plate margins). First Edition in Book Form. In this copy 'if' is not printed on p. 426, the page-number is missing from p. [431] and the text on p. 324 is corrected. Dombey and Son contains the first published example (p. 547) of a 'dark' plate, created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. Podeschi A103. Smith I 8. Sadleir 687. NCBL III 798.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
DICKENS, CHARLES. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$562.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp: [xi]xii-xvi [2][1]2-320; [ii]321-624. Bound in blue half leather over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed. Bound from the original parts with the covers bound in. In addition, there are twelve extra plates bound in at the end of volume II. The last line of page 324 has the word 'Capatin' incorrectly spelled, page 426, line 9 omits the first word 'if', and page 431 is numbered correctly. The novel was issued in parts from July, 1846 to April, 1848. And it was published in book form in the same month.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$562.58 + shipping
Description: Bound in hf.morocco gilt with marbled sides. xvi,624pp. marbled edges. 38 engraved plates and engraved title-page vignette by Phiz (Hablot K.Browne) The plates a little foxed, as usual, and an annotation on the ffe else a very good copy of the scarce 1st ed. The plate at page 547 is the first published example of the then-new "dark plate" process.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Original cloth corresponding to Smith I,70 the style used with copies bound from the parts. Neatly recased with new front endpapers, cloth laid down on spine with a small piece lacking from the lower spine area. A few of the earlier plates with spotting, the text mostly clear of soiling or foxing. Modern slipcase. Later issue points.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION WITH ALL BUT ONE OF THE FIRST ISSUE POINTS - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Three-quarter tan calf & marbled boards with gilt elaborate decorations in gilt and raised bands on the spine as well as a gilt titled red leather label. The covers are rubbed and slightly scuffed with minor wear to the edges and corners. All edges are marbled. xvi, [ii] & 624 pages plus an errata slip, illustrated with 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including a frontispiece and an additional pictorial title page. A couple of signatures [i.e. group of pages] are lightly pulled. There is scattered foxing, particularly in the margins of the plates. Good. "First edition, with all but one of the first issue points. The first issue points present in this copy of the book are as follows: a) The errata leaf following page xvi has 2 lines; an inserted errata slip has 12 lins. b) The title vignette and the illustration following page 238 erroneously have Capt. Cuttle's hook on his left arm; c) On the "List of Plates" on page xv, the frontis and the title vignette have no page entry; d) Further on page xv, line 2 there are no quotation marks around the words "the party"; e) Ten lines up from the bottom on page 14 there is no apostrophe in the word "aint"; f) On page 26, line 11 the word "fidgety" is mis-spelled "fidgetty"; g) On page 40, lines 16-17 the words "shewed' and "shew" are printed for "showed" and "show"; h) On page 284 five and six lines up from the bottom the word "Delight" replaces the word "Joy"; i) On page 324 in the last line the word "Captain" is mis-spelled "Capatin"; j) On page 426, line 9 the word "if" is not present; k) On page 582 the last line lacks a period. The only later issue point we have been able to determine is that the page number "431" is present on that page. The "dark plate" by Phiz, "On the Dark Road", is in superb condition with minor foxing in the margins. "According to Valerie Lester Browne, this was Phiz's first attempt at a classic 'dark plate', in this case to show the futility of the villainous Carker's trying to cheat death as he makes his way through France to Paris and thence to England. If he cannot escape Dombey on the Continent (where he fears Dombey can easily hire assassins), he rationalizes that it would be better to confront Dombey in a country less lawless. The March 1848 illustration, moreover, engages the viewer with the sharpness and vivacity of the figures and the prancing horses horses having been from his earliest compositions one of Phiz's strengths." - quoted from The Victorian Web.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, later issue. Lacks half-title (as usual), with 8-line errata page, and the following issue points: in the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle"s hook is on his left arm; p. xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p. 26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p. 40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" last line p. 324; p. 582, the last line has no end period. Thick octavo. Forty illustrations (including frontispiece and title-page vignette) by Browne ("Phiz"). three-quarter calf and marbled papercovered boards. Bookplate of Henry Lomax Gaskell, some light foxing, spine rebacked with some mild restoration to covers, a sound, very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and the Exportation. Illustrated by 38 full-page Plates by H. K. Browne. 624 pages. Marbled endpapers. Half black leather with gilt trim around leather; elaborate gilt design and title on spine. VG.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1848 Charles Dickens 1ed Dombey and Son English Literature Illustrated Phiz Art There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens While not regarded today as Charles Dickens best work, Dombey and Son was a polarizing novel that captured the hearts of its readers. In fact, the Grolier Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Dickens notes that there was nothing in all Dickens s writings better than the life and death of Paul Dombey. The chapter describing his death threw a whole nation into mourning . This work was first published in 20 monthly installments; this first book edition features the same engravings by H.K. Browne, which are considered the best efforts of H.K. Browne . (Grolier). It features the two original pen-and-ink drawings by Browne each signed Phiz . Item number: #18087 Price: $599 DICKENS, Charles Dombey and Son London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o xvi, 624, [2] o Illustrated with 40 engravings References: Grolier, Dickens 155 First edition points: o Title page: Cuttle s hook is on left arm o p. xv: no page listed for frontispiece and vignette, no quotation marks around "the party" o p. 14, 10 lines up: "aint" has no apostrophe o p. 26, line 11: "fidgetty" o p. 40 "shewed" and "shew" instead of showed and show o p. 284, 5 lines up: "Delight" instead of "Joy" o p. 324: Captain on last line o p. 547 "Dark Plate" is present o p. 582, last line: period missing Language: English Binding: Leather; secure Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (22cm x 14cm) 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! 18087 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1848 Charles Dickens 1ed Dombey and Son English Literature Illustrated Phiz ART There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens Dombey and Son was a polarizing novel that captured the hearts of its readers. In fact, the Grolier Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Dickens notes that there was nothing in all Dickens s writings better than the life and death of Paul Dombey. The chapter describing his death threw a whole nation into mourning . This work was first published in 20 monthly installments; this first book edition features the same engravings by H.K. Browne, which are considered the best efforts of H.K. Browne . (Grolier). It features the two original pen-and-ink drawings by Browne each signed Phiz . A truly rare and impressive printing of Dombey and Son , complete with the first edition points listed below. Item number: #22659 Price: $599 DICKENS, Charles Dombey and Son London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o xvi, 624 o Illustrated with 40 engravings References: Grolier, Dickens 155 First edition points: o Title page: Cuttle s hook is on left arm o p. xv no page listed for frontispiece and vignette, no quotation marks around the party o p. 14, 10 lines up: "aint" has no apostrophe o p. 26, line 11: "fidgetty" o p. 40, lines 16/17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of showed and show o p. 284, 5 lines up: "Delight" instead of "Joy" o p. 324, last line: Captain correctly spelled o p. 547 "Dark Plate" is present o p. 582, last line: final period not included Language: English Binding: Leather, tight and secure o Beautiful, leather with marbled boards Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm) 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! 22659 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Very near fine in in a late 19th century binding of 3/4 pebbled, black leather covered boards over marbled paper with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments, marbled end pages and the top edge of the text block is gilt. There is a minor area of 1/2" by 1/8" at the upper edge of the spine area where the leather is rubbed and the paper edge at the lower edges of the boards is rubbed through in one small area. The hinges are tight and strong. An octavo measuring 8 9/16" tall by 5 1/2" deep containing 624 pages. Tipped-in at the second free end page (and before the fly title page) is the front wrapper from #3 of the original part. Illustrated with 38 engraved plates and a frontispiece by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). An eight line errata page follows the list of illustrations. The word "Captain" is spelled correctly on the last line of page 324. (Eckel, p74)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son: Illustrated By H.K.Browne. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$611.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, Bound from the original parts in a 19th century half leather binding by Lake & Mackenzie of Uxbridge, Marbled boards, Illustrated throughout with full page illustrations, Frontis & extra engraved title page, First issue copy with issue points such as Captain Cuttle's hook in the left hand to title vignette, Capitan for Captain on last line of p-324, If missing to line 9 of p-426. Lacks half title, Gilt rubbed to spine, Some rubbing to marbled boards, Corners bumped, Private bookplate to front paste-down, Occasional light foxing mostly to endpapers & plates. Overall very good & with less foxing than usually found in early dickens. Overseas orders may require extra postage costs. 9HTL-28)
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Dombey and Son.. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$636.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition,The following are some of the first issue points that are present: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm; p.xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, l.16-17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.582, the last line has no full stop and has the dark plate opposite page 547. bound from the original monthly parts as first published from September 1846 to March 1848, with the stab-holes visible. . Octavo (220 x 140 mm). contemporary binding signed HERBERT JONES, half leather, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, marbled sides ruled in gilt, firm, a little wear at board edges; marbled cuts; Etched frontispiece, vignette title page, and 42 plates by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Complete with half-title; text pages throughout excellent; pages 455-458 detached; 7 plates very good, among them the four portraits with protective tissues, the other plates with some foxing; a good copy, protected in a modern case;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
DICKENS CHARLES. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$637.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. First edition, first issue, meeting Eckel points, lacking half title. Collation, engraved frontis, engraved title, printed title, xvi, 624pp, 40 plates, as index, 8 line errata. Bound in period or early quater calf, marble boards, raised bands, gilt tooing, coloured edges, marble endpapers. At some time, [ not recently ], the binding has been restored. Showing some signs of wear, marble pattern on boards, rubbed. Generally a nice clean firm binding. Internally, plates are clean, [ possibly washed ]. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A very nice copy, in a period or early binding.F Size: 8vo
Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey & Son. Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: US$637.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition 1848 hardcover copy of this book in what appears to be brown leather cover with gilt edging. Spine has 5 compartments separated by ornate gilt lines all in the same brown leather except for the one title section in green with gilt writing. The book itself is in good condition with general signs of wear for a book of this age and rubbing. (Other descriptions list a whole host of errors within the book and this has some but not all - for instance, Captain is not mispelt). There is an errata page at the back of the book. The front pictures are heavily foxed unfortunately with signs of mild foxing throughout. The spine and hinges are in good condition. If you would like further photos please ask.
Seller: Berry Books, Sudbury, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$637.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Issue. Includes errata slip to rear. Issue points - P. 324 "capatin" instead of "captain", and on the frontis. Captain Cuttle's hook is on the left hand. Spine heavily sunned, leather scuffed, boards rubbed, small crack to head of front hinge. Gutters cracked, however, internally sound, text and plates in very good condition. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1848.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION BOUND FROM THE PARTS. 1 vol., 8-5/8" x 6", illustrated by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), this copy with the final 8 line errata leaf, additional engraved frontis and title-page, includes the "dark plate" at p.547, mild toning to edges of plates but largely clean and bright throughout. Bound in contemporary 1/2 calf, ribbed gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered black leather spine label, spine relined with original spine laid down, hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine. Dombey & Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate, which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. (See Hatton & Clever, pp.276-7, for a discussion of the process.)
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thick octavo, bound in half morocco with leather labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt spine designs; foxing to title page and illustrations. First edition in book form, mostly first state, with Capt. Cuttle's hook on his left arm and "Capatin" instead of "Captain" on the last line p. 324. A handsome copy of a significant Dickens publication.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848, 1848.
Price: US$669.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. .Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne.new endpapers. pp.i.errata,frontispiece, vignette title page with the original hook illustration.,blank, title page,blank.preface,blank,contents,list of plates,xvi + 624.Has the 2 line errata, half title,and the "dark plate" on p.547.Last line p.324. Capatin and lines 5 & 6 from bottom on p 284 have delight not joy. All this points to the true First edition First issue.Half dark green calf ,expertly underbacked.raised bands lattice tooling in compartments.marbelled boards.previous owners stamp on bottom foredge.some foxing to plates. A Very Good copy of this classic and desirable Dickens novel.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Price: US$749.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Half green morocco and green cloth boards, 5 raised bands with ornate gilt compartments, gilt title stamped direct, all edges marbled, comb-marbled endpapers, unsigned binding. Pp. xvi, 624. Illustrated with 40 engravings in total (includes frontispiece, and engraved title-page). First edition, first state with all points. Lacks half-title, browning/foxing to plates primarily around margins, with heavier browning/foxing on the frontispiece and engraved title-page, else text pages clean and bright. Covers rubbed, corners a little scuffed, head of spine unobtrusively chipped, covers expertly and invisibly reattached. Overall, a very good copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, 624 pp., lacking errata leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Published in parts between 1846 and 1848, and illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), Dombey and Son follows Paul Dombey and his two children, Florence and Paul, and the trials and tribulations of the family and the shipping company Paul Dombey hopes to pass on to his son. Smith I:8 Bound in full brown straight grained calf, a.e.g., spine gilt, with contrasting title labels. Fine. Bookplate of Samuel Augustine Courtauld and his signature dated June 1918 Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, 624 pp., lacking errata leaf. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, 624, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Smith I:8 Full blue morocco with gilt borders to covers, gilt spine and raised compartments, with front hinge starting at top but still secure; toning to plates Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, 624, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, [ii], 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Smith I:8 Bound in contemporary brown calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges. Ticket of Henry March Gilbert, Southampton. Very good Vignette title and 39 plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). xvi, [ii], 624 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Complet des 40 gravures incluant le titre gravé.Édition originale. London, Bradbury, Evans - 1848 - xvi pp + 624 pp. Printers whitefriars. Errata 2 lines.Reliure anglaise demi-veau à coins signé par J. Rowbotham. Dos à nerfs orné de filets doré, avec auteur et titre. Bord des gravures brunis. Rares rousseurs sur le texte. Bon état. Format in-8°(22x14). Edition originale
Seller: Livres et Collections, SEVRES, France
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey & Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$781.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp.624. Early engraved title page, gives the alternate dealings with the firm of Dombey & Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Engraved plates, some foxed mainly around the margin. Complete with all engraved plates with H.K.Browne. Contemporary green half morocco and marbled boards. All edges gilt. Although this copy does not appear to be recased, an old end paper is bound in. A handsome original binding of the first edition.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. First printing. "Captain" misspelled on page 324 as "Capatin." Three quarter red leather with marbled boards, endpapers and page edges, gilt decoration. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. Very good with owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (also a bookplate removed from the front fly verso leaving a glue stain), owner name on preliminary pages, pages foxed, a very light water line on title page edges, cover modestly edgeworn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$828.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dealings with the Firm Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation with engraved frontpiece, additional title and 38 plates by H. K. Browne. Half morocco gilt bound without the half title as usual. Rebound preserving the original brown cloth covers, spine, adverts, errata slip and extra plates by Phiz at the rear of the book. Light browning thoughout the book. Front free page with pencil details of the rebound. 624 pages plus the additional inserts. 8vo
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son (Extra-illustrated). Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Finely bound by Morrell in three-quarter green morocco, all edges gilt, spines with intricate details and raised bands, marbled end papers. An excellent copy overall, with four additional portrait plates bound in, depicting characters from the novel. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial careerâ"concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bayntun binding. Half leather, dark green. Ornate spine, burgundy and dark green with bright gilt decorations. Mild rubbing to spine ends. Front corners have rubbing with small scrape to the surface at the corner. TEG. Containing 4 extra plates from Chapman and Hall. 11-line errata sheet. Lacking 1/2-title page. 2 title pages present. Pages clean, lightly toned.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in book form; early issue. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exploration, by Charles Dickens and with illustrations by H.K. Brownie. 1848 stated on the title page. Quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards and gilt pinstripe detailing. Decorative gilt detailing on spine. A very handsome book. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. Slight tanning of the pages. Very good condition. Comes housed in a custom slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in book form, later issue. Half dark green morocco, green moire cloth boards, gilt compartments and floral borders. A.E.G. Marbled endpapers. Green ribbon marker. xvi, [1 errata leaf], [1 blank], 624 pp. Numerous engravings from illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), incl. frontis., extra-illustrated title with vignette, [38] plates, including experimental "dark plate" facing p. 547. Extra-illustrated with twelve engraved portraits of the chief characters by Browne. With half-title. First edition early issue points mentioned by Smith corrected in this edition (3 of 17 issues corrected): p. 324, spelling of Captain corrected (instead of Capatain); p. 336, lines 10 and 11 type is not loose and slanted; p. 431 has the page number. Spine sunned, rubbing to extremities, light wear to corners. Errata leaf (8 lines) and errata slip (12 lines) tipped in after plate list. Tanning to title from old clippings inserted. Other plates very clean, with some minor offsetting from plates to text. Spots of browning from pp. 165-176. Small chip to upper corner of p. 185. Bookplate of Frederick Cowan. Two earlier catalogue entries, one laid down to flyleaf at gutter and one loosely inserted. Very good condition overall. Eckel pp.74-76; Smith 1:8.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation by Charles Dickens. (1812-1870), [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator]. First edition, mixed issue in ¾ leather and flower patterned paper. Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848, 1848. [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator]. Octavo. pp. xvi, 624 [1]. Illustrated with 40 plates, including the vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Phiz. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents very clean. Frontispiece and plates with varying degrees of foxing. Plate facing page 381 with tape repair to the verso and was tipped in. The following first issue points are present: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm; p.xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" on line 2; p.14 ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, l.16-17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324, p.582, the last line has no full stop and has the dark plate opposite page 547. 624 pages. 6 x 8 ½ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-385. Price: $950.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with following points -- two line errata leaf, no half title, vignette title with Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284), page number 431 present. "Capatin" for "Captain" in last line p. 234, and "if" missing in line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. ECKEL pp.74-76. SMITH 1:8. YALE/GIMBEL A103. Text clean, plates also bright and fresh with a few slightly toned at margins. Frontispiece and title page with light margin toning. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$956.06 + shipping
Description: 8vo, xvi, 624 pp., engraved frontispiece and title and 38 etched plates (mostly lightly foxed or browned, as usual), one plate with small piece missing from outer margin (just touching image), original green cloth, spine faded and with a slight crease down the centre, four or five tiny frayed spots at extremities, inner hinges slightly cracked, but firm, housed in a green cloth folding box. First book edition; bound up from the original parts, but removing the half-title and errata leaves as is often the case. This copy is in Smith's "variant" binding, as used for copies bound from parts. Because of their bulkiness and susceptibility to wear, the larger one-volume novels of Dickens (Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit), are notoriously difficult to find in anything approaching fine condition in the original cloth. The present copy is tight and fresh, and well-above average for a copy in cloth. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, I, 8.
Seller: James Burmester, Bristol, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Sons. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$956.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 16 pages of advertisements to fep, errata to recto page 16 of ads, and indentifying marker of hook to Captain's left hand on frontispiece. Ex-libris of a Charles Chambers (armorial plate reads "Facta Non Verba"). Rebound professionally; spine has been lifted and re-settled in one piece, light chips to edges evident. PDs original brown decorative flower design, period pencil note to verso flyleaf reads "First Edition with a series of portraits and a specimen wrapper found in uncut bound from the parts". It appears here that some parts (more so to the rear) have been tipped in when being re-bound; this would need further clarification upon enquiring in regards to sale. CE are uncut, small pen mark to head of page 75, else sound. Light discolouration commensurate with age. A sound copy. Size: 8vo 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in of Dickensâ novel of âPride,â with 40 etchings by Hablà t Knight Browne (âPhizâ). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In near fine condition. 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 & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, xvi, 624 pages, and 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne (i.e., Phiz). In maroon calf over marbled boards. Spine faded to tan. Somer scratches an abrasions to covers. Plates generally stained at edges and variously foxed.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1017.25 + shipping
Description: 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xvi, 624pp. 40 plates including engraved frontispiece, title page and vignette. Two line errata page. In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is on his left arm; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324 last line "Capatin" instead of "Captain" p.429, "if" is missing from line 9; p.582, the last line has no full stop. The first example of a 'dark plate' is to be seen on p.547. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Plates foxed Green hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$1024.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition in book form of Dickens's seventh novel, in original cloth. With the half-title. 8vo: (iii)-xvi,[2,errata],624pp, with the engraved title page ("Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail and for exportation") and 39 etched plates (with none of the inferior lithographed plates made as substitutes, after the etched plates were insufficient to meet demand) by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including a "dark plate" and four other horizontal plates (both innovations). Original diaper-grain green cloth, skillfully rebacked with spine laid down, pale yellow end papers, engraved title (dated 1848) preceding printed title. Errata leaf follows List of Plates in this copy. A very early issue, scarce in the publisher's original cloth, including most points of Smith's first issue, with Captain Cuttle's hook on left hand (title-page vignette), no page entry for frontispiece and vignette on p. xv, and "Delight" on p. 284, but with corrected spelling of captain on p. 324. An excellent example, pages and plates bright and fresh, with only trivial foxing and marginal toning (three plates more significantly affected). Smith I 8. Eckel, pp. 74-76. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A103. Grolier Dickens 155. Sadleir I 687. Johannsen (Phiz), pp. 241-308. First published in twenty monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848, then complete in this single-volume edition. Smith calls "On the Dark Road," in which the "smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel, . . . a fine example of the dark plate process [and the first ever published]." (Smith) Dark plates were created using a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its contrast. John Forster, Dickens's biographer, thought there was nothing in all of Dickens's writings better than the life and death of Paul Dombey. (Grolier) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON. Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: US$1051.67 + shipping
Description: First edition. Finely bound by Bumpus in half red morocco over marbled boards, with gilt titles and decoration and raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. A handsome, near fine copy, with slight browning to the edge of some plates Thirty nine full page steel engravings by H. K. Browne.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles.. DOMBEY AND SON.. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1848.
Price: US$1092.50 + shipping
Description: "With illustrations by HK Browne," 8.5 x 5.25, finely bound in gilt-ruled gold crushed morocco with raised bands; aeg, 624 pp, very minor cover rubbing, hinges a little loose, pp toned, illustr toned and spotted (as usual) else a beautifully bound copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with errata leaf and such points as "figetty" on p26, "amiliar" on p70, "Capatin" on p324, no period at the end of the last line on p582, and hook on left arm in title page vignette [Smith: Heritage Bookshop]. Binding by Bayntun-Riviere, though not noted as such.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1155.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the earliest state of the hook on the left hand on the vignette title-page. With engraved Illustrations by H.K. Browne throughout. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt bands, one compartment with brown morocco label lettered in gilt. xiv, 624 pp. A very handsome copy in a proper period binding, sturdy and attractive and unusually clean and bright throughout. FIRST EDITION. This is quite a desirable copy of the Dickens novel that introduced the world to the memorable Mr. Dombey and his transactions, business and personal, and that creates a "clear picture of society in [Dickens] time." Dickens wrote it while in residence in a number of different areas, beginning the work in Lausanne, Switzerland, continuing in Paris, and finishing in Brighton, Broadstairs, and London, making the text "a true cosmopolite in the manner of its writing." The publication of this book marked a turning point for Dickens; his proceeds were a fine increase over MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, and with these earnings "his financial worriment ceased, prosperity began, and a period of money-saving was at hand." This is the first publication of the text in its entirety after its serialization from October 1846 to April 1848. Copies this early are becoming scarce. An excellent piece of classic Dickensiana.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: For sale an 1848 edition of Dombey and Son. Published in 1848 by Bradbury and Evans, London 11 Bouverie Street . Quarter bound leather with marbled boards. Book is in excellent condition. Very tight binding with new endpapers. Has all the first issue points that I could find. Contains two errata sheets - the 2 and 12 line versions. In the title-page vignette Captain Cuttle's hook is on his left arm; p. xv no entry for the frontice piece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "The Party" on line 2; page 14, ten lines up, "ain't" is missing its apostrophe; p. 26, eleven lines down "fidgetty" has an extra "t"; p.40, lines 16 and 17, have the words "shewed" and "shew" rather than "showed and "show"; p.284, "Delight" rather the "Joy", five and six lines from the bottom; p.324 "Captain" spelled correctly and spelled capatin on the bottom line; p.426 "if" is missing from line 9; The page number on p.431 is missing. p.582, no full stop on the last line.
Seller: Nash Books, Huntsville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, later issue, in a Riviere & Son binding. Thick octavo; size of binding: 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ x 1 7/8 (thick); engraved frontispiece + vignette title page, printed title page, dedication leaf; Preface, Contents, List of Plates; 11 line errata slip. xvi, (1)-624 pp. With forty engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the first example of the dark plate: On the Dark Road. Later issue with an eleven-line errata slip & the word Captain corrected at the last line of p. 324. Bound in full, brown polished calf by Riviere & Son, London; with their bookbinder s stamp in the upper left edge of the back of the front, marbled endpaper. The spine features five raised bands, with red & dark green leather title labels & compartments richly gilt with a characteristic design; covers are outlined in a double-line gilt border with floral tools in the corners, gilt tooling to the cover edges, inner dentelles; sewn headbands, all edges gilt. Marbled paper endpapers & added flyleaves. The scan shows the spine & front cover. This binding, which was produced in the ca. 1900-20 period is in remarkably fine condition (without nicks, scratches, or rubbing). The pages & plates also, are quite clean, with only occasional, light tan spotting to plate margins, or edges of the pages. This book has been carefully preserved in a cabinet for many years, keeping it in such exceptional condition. Weight: 2 ½ lbs. Eckel, pp. 71-76.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1211.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xvi, [2], 624pp, plates. Later half-calf and marbled paper over boards from the parts, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel, contrasting author label to third, remaining panels gilt with volute corner pieces, flower head centre piece with small roundels to top, bottom, left and right, marbled endpapers. Spine faded, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally the plates often have the usual browning to edges, but generally fairly bright and clean. Bound from the original parts, several of the plates (twenty) are bound in twice, several covers from the parts are bound in at the rear, with a couple of the Dombey Advertisers. Extra-illustrated with both sets of the portraits (twelve portraits) of the characters, again illustrated by Phiz, with the original wrappers bound in to rear. Bound by Palmer Howe and Co. of Manchester. See Smith, pages 70-73 Size: 8vo
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1217.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No jacket. Several marks and scores on boards. Creases on spine. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and bumped. Page block is tanned and marked. Bookplate on front pastedown. Nicks on leading edges of pastedowns. Pen mark on reverse of FEP. Ink writing on first blank paper and title page. One centimetre tear and nicks on leading edge of fourth plate. Pages are marked. Errata slip placed in the volume. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1268.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, first issue, of Dickens' popular 'Dombey and Son', a classic Victorian novel here with the original illustrations by Phiz. The first edition, first issue of this work, bound from the parts with stab holes to the gutter. Issue points present: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; no quotation marks around the word 'party' to page XV line 2; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284 5 lines up from the bottom; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 1 10 lines up from the bottom; and 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on page 324. Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in his 1913 publication 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Plate 35, 'On the Dark Road' facing page 547, is the first published example of a 'dark plate'.Half-title is present.Bound without the errata slip."Dombey and Son" is about Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company, who intends to pass down ownership of his company to his son, ignoring his daughter, Florence. The novel tells the story of their family, and their hopes and fearsDickens 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.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, most often known by his pen-name 'Phiz'. As Phiz, he illustrated many of Dickens' novels, including 'David Copperfield', 'Dombey and Son', and 'Bleak House', as well as illustrating for 'Punch' throughout his life. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards, with new endpapers. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities. Light marks and discolouration to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and generally clean with the occasional spot, age-toning and spots heavier to the plates, frontispiece and title page more heavier spotted. Small tide mark to the head of the frontispiece, engraved title, and first two plates. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Complete, with the half title and vignette title, the eight-line errata, and 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial careerâ"concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition in book form, bound from the original monthly parts into a blind stamped green cloth binding. Some stab holes are visible on some pages of the text and on some illustrations. Some light foxing. Some minor discoloration to edges of some of the illustrations. Re-cased with the original spine laid down with some damage at the head. Some very minor spotting to both front and back boards. Original endpapers contain a book plate of the period on both the front pastedown and the front endpaper. A nice first edition in book form of Dickens' fifth major novel.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1593.43 + shipping
Description: First edition. With forty plate illustrations by H. K. Browne, including frontispiece and title page vignette. 8vo., in a fine green morocco binding, with gilt borders to front and back boards, spine with five single raised bands outlined in gilt, the second and third panels lettered in gilt, the rest elaborately tooled in gilt. London, Bradbury and Evans. Originally published in monthly parts from 1846 to 1848 this being its first appearance in one volume. A very fine copy, with a little offsetting to free endpapers, and a small mark to front board, otherwise clean and bright. Podeschi A103.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS (Charles). Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1593.43 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. 40 engraved plates. First Edition. 8vo. [213 x 135 x 49 mm]. xvi, [ii], 624 pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, the covers with a border of three gilt fillets, the spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, the turn-ins with three gilt fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. With the half-title.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt (binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun). Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound without half title else complete, with vignette title, eight-line errata, and all 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Housed in a custom slipcase. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial careerâ"concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. , 1848.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bound by Riviere in full polished calf, double-ruled in gilt, raised spine bands, elaborate gilt compartments, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, gilt chamfered edges, A.e.g., housed in custom cloth slipcase. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first issue. Smith 8. Eckel p.74. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form of Dickensâ novel of âPride,â with 40 etchings by Hablà t Knight Browne (âPhizâ). Octavo, bound in original cloth. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. A nice example. 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.
Charles Dickens. Dombey & Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Leather Bound. H: 8 3/4", D: 5 3/4", W: 1 3/4" 1 Volume. Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco with the covers and raised band spine gilt-tooled. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Illustrated. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2 Parts bound in 19. 8vo. with half-title. 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne (incl. frontis. & additional title). partly unopened in original printed wrs. with pictorial designs by Browne (significant foxing to plates, 6 plates severely browned & the remainder with severe browning to outer margins, corners of first 2 plates chipped & leaves dog-eared, first front wr. defective, some wrs. detached, some spines & wrs. chipped, last part stitching broken, some wrs. & ads missing details below). modern drop-back box. First Edition, in the original parts. Parts 11 and 14 the earliest issue with incorrect reading Capatin in last line on p. 324 (11) and if omitted at the beginning of line 9 on page 426 (14). All ads and slips present except for the following: Part I lacking all ads; Part III lacking rear wr. and all ads; Part VI lacking all ads; Part VII lacking wrs. and all ads; Part VIII lacking wrs. and all ads; Part IX lacking rear wr. and all ads; Part X lacking Gilbert s Dictionary (pp.8); Part XI lacking rear advert slip; Part XV lacking rear wr. and all ads and slip; Part XVI lacking rear ads; Part XVIII lacking 2 pages of ads; Parts XIX-XX lacking rear wr. and errata. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 225-250.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
DICKENS Charles. Dealings with the firm Dombey and son. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
Price: US$2020.00 + shipping
Description: - Bradbury and Evans, London 1848, In-8 (14x22cm), 624pp., relié. - Edition originale, rare, de première émission avec les 8 lignes d'errata sur un feuillet. L'illustration, exécutée selon les indications très précises de l'auteur comprend un frontispice, un titre gravé avec une vignette et 38 planches par Hablot Knigt Browne dont une à la manière noire : On the dark road. Texte sur vélin teinté. Reliure en demi chagrin rouge d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Auteur et titre dorés. Tête dorée. Marges du frontispice, du titre gravé et des gravures brunies, comme c'est habituellement le cas dans les éditions anglaises de Dickens. Texte propre, exempt de rousseurs. Traces de frottements. Bel exemplaire. Roman écrit dans une veine nettement plus sombre mettant en scène l'orgueil démesuré d'un père tyrannique animé par l'ambition face à l'amour indéfectible de sa fille qu'il ignore totalement. On y retrouve, comme toujours chez Dickens une perception fine des tensions sociales de l'époque. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] 624pp.
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son.. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form of Dickensâ novel of âPride,â with 40 etchings by Hablà t Knight Browne (âPhizâ). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. 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 & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Well-preserved (rebound?) in tan calf with mottled silken cloth, gilt bands on spine and titled red-brown morocco; grey-green endpapers. Illustrations throughout by H.K. Browne, AKA "Phiz", including the first published example of the dark plate process. Some foxing present on front matter and plates. Title page vignette features hook on Capt. Cuttle's left hand, 8-line errata leaf after xv, and such points as: no page entry for frontispiece and vignette on p. xv, figetty" on p26, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show" on p.40, "Delight" instead of "Joy" on p. 284, "Capatin" on p324, no period at the end of the last line on p582, etc. (Contact seller for other specifics.) An excellent copy inscribed by "A.E. Ellis," thus possibly the personal property of either the British author Derek Lindsay, who wrote the renowned novel The Rack under the name A.E. Ellis, or the British scientist Arthur Erskine Ellis, AKA A.E. Ellis and known for his study of mollusks. Please contact with questions.
Seller: Richard Drive Books & Collectibles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full Crushed Red Morocco. Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 624pp. with the half-title and errata slip. First Issue: Cuttle's hook on his lieft hand in title page vignette; p.284, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" p.324, final line. Magnificently bound in full, red, crimson crushed red levant for Asprey. Gold vignette portrait of Dickens on front and gold facsimilie of his famous signature on rear. Spine in six compartments heavily tooled and lettered in gold; a.e.g. A gorgeous book.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2220.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st issue in book form with Cuttle's book in his left hand in the title page vignette, and no page entry for the frontis. and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party," p. xv; "aint" has no apostrophe, p. 26, 10 lines up; "fidgetty," p. 26, line 11; "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show," p. 40, lines 16-17; "Delight" instead of "Joy," p. 284, 5th and 6th lines from bottom; "Capatin" instead of "Captain," p. 324; and with the errata sheet. Illustrated with 38 plates, vignette title page, and engraved frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne. Near-Fine, spine a bit faded, in a matching blue slip case. Literature.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2230.81 + shipping
Description: First edition, bound from the original parts, in the publisher's primary cloth binding. The novel is "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB). Following issue in parts from September 1846 to March 1848, Bradbury and Evans issued the novel in book form in the present cloth. In the 19th number of the part issue, a slip advertised the novel, ready for delivery on 12 April, at £1 1s. in cloth, or £1 4s. 6d in half morocco. The slip goes on to note "Subscribers desirous of having their copies bound in a similar style can have them done by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, or through their Booksellers, at the following prices: Whole bound, morocco gilt edges 6s. 6d. Half bound, marble leaves, 4[s.] 6[d]. In cloth, lettered 1[s.] 6[d]". This copy represents an owner of the parts making use of these binding services, with the characteristic stab-holes in the gutter where unstitched from the wrappers. At such a reduced price (1s. 6d compared to £1 1s for a new copy in cloth), it is evident why an owner of a complete set in parts would prefer having them bound, rather than purchasing a new book-form copy. For Dickens's novels, the publisher kept a stock of first edition sheets, and bound up copies and issued them over time as demand required. So too, owners of the parts could make use of the binding services long after publication. Changes in the cloth design over time allow the binding to be dated, and a primary binding to be identified. Smith noted this binding style as a variant, but incorrectly identified a binding with a chain design as the primary - the chain design was in fact introduced by Chapman and Hall in the 1860s, after they acquired remaining first edition sheets from Bradbury and Evans. Similar bindings with a chain design can be seen in Chapman and Hall's Dickens publications of the 1860s (see Kremers, p. 249). Kremers has subsequently identified this design, which he dubs "marigold", as the primary binding. "Marigold" is unique to Dombey and Son. Copies of the novel were subsequently bound into the "lineal-globe" cloth in the 1850s with a central arabesque on the covers, which is the primary binding of Bleak House (1853) and Little Dorrit (1857), and the "chain" cloth in the 1860s as stated above; these are secondary bindings. The primary "marigold" binding has two variants of blocking, with ornamentation on the inner frame, as here, and without; the variant with ornamentation is presumed by Kremers to be the earlier. The spine lettering also has two variants (indiscriminate with the blocking variants), the base lettered either "London 1848", or "London" only, as here; the absence of the date is presumed by Kremers to be secondary state. Smith I, 8. Lars Kremers, "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens, 1837-1872", 2013, pp. 210-211. Demy octavo. Original green diaper cloth, Kremers' "marigold" (primary), spine lettered in gilt, spine and covers with elaborate design in blind, cream endpapers. Frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz); plate 35 being the first published example of a "dark plate". Expertly recased with neat repair at spine ends and joints, spine and extremities a little sunned, slight stain to front cover and ringstain to rear, some foxing as usual, plates browned and stained at foot. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 20 parts in 19. The "Dombey & Son Advertiser" in all parts except Part 17 and other inserted advertisements. Issue points: Part 11, p. 324, first issue with "Capatin" misprint"; Part 14, and with earliest issue point on p. 426 (lacking "if"); Part 5 has the 12 line errata slip; Part 9, page 284, 5th and 6th line up "Delight"; Part 19-20 adverts dated "April, 1848." Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 227-50. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. Softcovers, bound in original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, housed in a cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. Chipping to backstrip extremities, wrappers partly split on a few numbers, minor soiling; plates with intermittent tanning and spotting, heaviest to margins.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles; BROWNE, H.K.. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1848.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: "Time, Consoler of Affliction and Softener of Anger" Scarce in the 'Primary' Cloth Binding DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, first issue with the 'eight-line errata' (following all but a very few of the points in Smith), in book form of Dickens' seventh novel, bound from the original monthly parts, with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm). xvi, [1, errata], [1, blank], 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece, titlepage, and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road", facing p. 547. Some of the plates with light foxing, mainly marginal, otherwise a very clean and partially uncut example. Publisher's 'primary' binding of moderate olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth; the front and back covers entirely stamped in blind with a three-line border which encloses a rectangular frame that occupies the length of the covers. The frame contains an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design that runs along its inner edge; each segment of the chain encloses a four-headed flower and is bordered by a nipple. The spine is lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with a thick band at its top and bottom and four rectangular panels. Original pale orange-yellow coated endpapers. With nearly all of the 'internal flaws' mentioned by Smith uncorrected. Front joint, head and tail of spine and inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired, spine slightly faded. An excellent example, far better than is usually seen, of this now hard to find Dickens novel in the original cloth. "Dombey and Son originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last forming a double number, from October 1846 - April 1848. It was published in book form on April 12, 1848. at 21s. Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate, which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road," p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process." (Smith). Smith I:8. Sadleir, 687. Wolff, 1798.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [xvi], 624 pp. Illustrated. Full leather binding, gilt lettering, decoration, label chipped, marbled edges, overall good.(27538). Illustrated by H. K. Brown. Bound by Sotheran & Co.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. DOMBEY AND SON 2 VOLUME SET. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$3445.00 + shipping
Description: Both Volumes Very Good+. Rubbing along panel edges. First issue with all the points: Illustrated title page vignette shows Cuttle with the hook in his left hand. No page entry for the frontispiece & vignette, no quotation marks around "the Party" to pp. XV line 2. Pp.26 âfidgetty' misspelling, pp.40 âshewed' and âshew' for âshowed' and âshow', pp.284 âDelight' for âJoy', pp.324 âCapatin' misspelt for âCaptain'.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3926.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title, front., engr. title ('Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail and for exportation.'), & 38 plates, sl. foxed, errata leaf & errata slip at end. Original green fine-diaper cloth, borders and spine elaborately decorated in blind, spine lettered: DOMBEY / AND SON; C. DICKENS at tail: LONDON 1848; sl. rubbing. Small bookseller's ticket of E Bowker, Accrington. Smith I, 8; the variant binding. This copy is bound from the parts.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4270.40 + shipping
Description: The first editions in book form of three of Charles Dickens' best known novels. With 'David Copperfield' and 'Dombey and Son' present in early issues, and 'Little Dorrit' in its first issue. The first editions in book form of three works of literature from iconic Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, in attractive half crushed morocco bindings, and with each volume illustrated throughout by 'Phiz', Hablot Knight Browne.The first published volume here is the 1848 first edition in book form of 'Dombey and Son'. An early issue, complying with all but one of the first issue points identified in John C. Eckel's 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'; 'Captain' is correctly spelled as the final word of page 324.Complying with first issue points including: 'Bradbury & Evans' to the illustrated title page; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14, 10 lines up from the bottom; 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284, 5 lines up from the bottom.Bound without half title and errata, however including plate 35, 'On the Dark Road', facing page 547, which is the first published example of a 'dark plate'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.The second volume present is an early issue of the first edition in book form of 1850's 'David Copperfield'. First issue points present include: the presence of the date to title pages; dark plate facing page 482; chapter XXVII begins on page 282 rather than 283 as listed in the contents, and misspelling 'coroboration' to page 387 line 6 from the bottom.As is frequently the case, however, 'screamed' has been corrected to 'screwed' to page 132, which is a common find. Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.Bound without half title and errata.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.The final work present is the 1857 first edition in book form, first issue, of 'Little Dorrit'. The first issue of this work, with three line errata to page xiv; 'William' for 'Frederick on page 317 line 27;B2 instead of BB2 on page 371,and 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois' on pages 469-73.Bound without the half title.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete.An exceptionally smart three volume collection of first edition works from perhaps the most important writer of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens. Rebound in half crushed morocco bindings, and cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Each front hinge reinforced with following frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting and discolouration to plates, most concentrated to plate perimeters. Pages bright, with scattered handling marks, spots and areas of light discolouration throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation by Charles Dickens. (1812-1870), [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator]. First edition, first issue with all the first issue points present. Original watercolor by Kyd bound in. In full leather deluxe binding with 5 raised bands and gilt letting and trim. Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848. [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator]. Octavo. pp. xvi, 624 [1]. Illustrated with 40 plates as called for including the vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Phiz. Binding is in fine condition. Contents very clean and crisp. Two pages with small stains. Plates are the cleanest I ve ever seen. One plate some toning on the bottom. The following are some of the first issue points that are present: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm; p.xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, l.16-17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324, p.582, the last line has no full stop and has the dark plate opposite page 547. 624 pages. 6 x 8 ½ inches. #23-041. Price: $5,000.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son (Extra-illustrated). Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book in the publisher's full green morocco. Spine titles stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, pale yellow end-papers. Complete with half-title, 2-line errata leaf (bound at the end) and all 40 original plates. Extra-illustrated with the additional 12 plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz) produced by Chapman and Hall in 1848 (produced in two parts, a first set of 8 additional plates and a second set of 4 additional plates, all depicting characters or scenes from the novel). Some foxing to the plates, as usual. With the first appearance of a "dark" plate in a Dickens' work, used more extensively in later novels like Bleak House and Little Dorrit. The last copy at auction in the publisher's full morocco binding made 5,625 pounds at Sothebys in 2019 (part of the Larry Drizen collection) and did not include the rare extra suite of twelve Phiz plates produced by Chapman and Hall. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial careerâ"concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An excellent, complete set of Dickens's Christmas books, including a first edition, first issue of "A Christmas Carol" with parts of original cloth bound-in. All volumes 16mo. uniformly bound by Tout in three-quarter green morocco over green marbled boards, spines elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. AEG. Matching marbled endpapers. Each volume with the bookplate of The Library of B. George Ulizio Charles Dickens Collection. Spines uniformly darkened. Some occasional offsetting from the bound-in cloth. Overall, a handsome set housed in matching full red morocco pull-top slipcases, felt-lined.A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.: First edition, first issue. Pp. [viii], [1], 2-166, followed by two pages of publisher ads. Four inserted hand-colored plates, including frontis. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear.The Chimes. A Goblin Story: First edition, first issue. Pp. [vi], [1], 2-175 followed by colophon, and publisher's notice for the tenth ed. of Christmas Carol. First state of the added engraved title and frontis. by Becker after Maclise. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear.The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home.: First edition. Pp. [viii], [1], 2-174, followed by two pages of publisher ads, including the second state of the final leaf for the new edition of Oliver Twist. Engraved title and frontis. by G. Dalziel after Maclise. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. Small marginal repairs to pp. 59-61.The Battle of Life. A Love Story.: First edition, fourth issue. Pp. [viii], [1-3], 4-175, colophon, followed by two pages of publisher ads including Dombey and Son. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. Faint owner signature at head of frontis.The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: First edition. Pp. [vi], [1], 2-188, followed by two pages of publisher ads including Works by Mr. Dickens. Additional pictorial frontis. and title by Martin & Corbould after Tenniel. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. ECKEL, pp. 110-125. SMITH, Dickens II: 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Leather bindings housed in red full-morocco pull-top cases with some original cloth bound-in
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$76484.81 + shipping
Description: First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "William Haldimand Esquire With the cordial remembrance and regard of Charles Dickens Twenty ninth March 1849". A former director of the Bank of England and a Member of Parliament for Ipswich, William Haldimand (1784-1862) was the brother-in-law of William de Cerjat, one of Dickens's lifelong friends and correspondents. Dickens met Haldimand during his visit to Switzerland in 1846, where Haldimand had retired in 1828. This was a time of some mental frustration for Dickens, and he gained some relief by reading the first number of Dombey and Son to Haldimand and Cerjat. Haldimand's friendship was evidently of some significance to Dickens - he named his seventh child Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens. The Haunted Man, published on 19 December 1848, was the fifth and final of Dickens's Christmas books. "As soon as he returned from Broadstairs to London, he started work on the Christmas Book he had for so long been contemplating, a book about lost time. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is concerned with the power of memory, with family life which is destroyed and replaced only by the wretched anxieties of a distinguished but solitary man. the theme itself revolves around Dickens's belief that memory is a softening and chastening power, that the recollections of old sufferings and old wrongs can be used to touch the heart and elicit sympathy with the sufferings of others. It has been said that in this autobiographical fragment Dickens is only suppressing his feelings of hurt and jealous rage, but it seems more likely that he was actively involved, after Fanny's death, in the process of transcending them" (Ackroyd, p. 553). Provenance: the Comte Alain de Suzannet, with his bookplate to front pastedown (this copy not recorded in the catalogue for the sale of his collection at Sotheby's, 22 November 1971); the collector Michael Sharpe, morocco book-label to front pastedown; the Lawrence Drizen Collection of Charles Dickens. Eckel p. 124; Smith, II, 9, pp. 68-70. Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, 1990. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom red half morocco box and chemise. Frontispiece, engraved title page, and 15 illustrations in the text, by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone. Neat early ownership signature to front free endpaper. Wear at spine and joint ends, top of backstrip loosening, light soiling and rubbing to cloth, front hinge starting, initial leaves loosening but stitching holding; still a very good copy in the original cloth.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom