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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [author]; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 [preface]; Ross, Gordon, 1873-1946 [illustrator]. GREAT EXPECTATIONS [Signed by illustrator]. Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$131.25 + shipping

Description: Octavo, xxviii, 488 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair slipcase. Slipcase in green paper, wear to corners, toning to rear panel, damp stains on side panels, peripheral toning. Spine is green with gold print on dark green banner. Boards in green cloth, mitred edges. Light wear to spine caps, toning to spine. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges, spotting to edges, foxing to endpapers, occasional foxing within. Illustrated with 2-color frontispiece and plates. Pamphlet laid in: The Mystery of the Unhappy Ending : a Correspondence / George Macy, Bernard Shaw (unpaged, light age-toning to paper). Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1371962. FP New Rockville Stock.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard-bound in green cloth with gilt and dark green stamping on the spine, in a slip-case with sunning, scuffing, and edge-wear. The covers show light scuffing, and toning to the spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This book is a Limited Edition, #1169/1500.

Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. The Limited Editions Clulb, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$249.99 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original gilt-titled cloth, TEG. #840 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Gordon Ross. Spine slightly sunned/scuffed else fine. The original slicpase is sunned, slightly bumped. Publisher's booklet laid in "The Mystery of the Unhappy Ending: a Correspondence." ; quarto; Signed by Author

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. The Limited Editions Club, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$270.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Gilt top exterior pages. Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited. With a new preface by Bernard Shaw. Spine faded. Green slipcase well work around front edges. 489 pages. This edition has the ending Charles Dickens originally wrote. Number 123 signed copies of 1500. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.

Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Mild dust darkening to the spine else a clean and bright copy in a Very Good slipcase with some sunning, cracking. Still a solid example though. Limited to 1500 copies with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and signed by Ross. ; Signed by Illustrator

Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

Price: US$298.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Limited to 1,500 signed, numbered copies, this being number 569. Signed by the illustrator, Gordon Ross. Sunned spine and front cover top edge. Gilt top page edges. Lightly read ir read at all. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Original slipcase with wear and sunning to edges.

Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles / Bernard Shaw, preface. Great Expectations. R. & R. Clark / Limited Editions Club, 1937.

Price: US$298.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited Editions Club SIGNED by illustrator & Limited #1485/1500. xxviii 489pp + 27 full-pg illustrated plates; 3-color illustrated eps; b/w illustrations; contents clean; top edge gilt; 10" tall; green cover with beveled edge; black title band with gilt lettering on darkened spine; chipped & soiled slipcase

Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.; With a New Preface by Bernard Shaw and Illustrations by Gordon Ross. Printed for The Limited Editions Club by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: #1144 of 1500 copies with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and signed by Ross. This is in a beautiful new fine binding of full red tooled leather with raised bands, gilt lettering on spine and gilt on top edge, color portrait of Dickens inset on the front cover, marbled endpapers. Now housed in a professionally made paper covered slipcase. Fine condition in slipcase. Photographs upon request

Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Limited Editions Club, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$437.50 + shipping

Description: Quarto (7" x 10") bound in green buckram and printed by R. & R. Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard Shaw. This edition is also bibliographically important in that it is the first time Dickens's original "unhappy" ending to this great novel was published. This is copy #473 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. We need never be ashamed of our tears. Spine slightly darkened with some rubbing, much nicer than usually found. Near Fine in an intact Very Good slipcase

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. R. & R. Clark Limited, Edinburgh, 1937.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original full green cloth over boards, spine gilt, top guilt, beveled edges in chipped original slip case sunned and ware to edges. This copy is number 721 signed by illustrator, Gordon Ross.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. Arthur Waugh. Hugh Walpole. Gordon Ross. Thomas Hatton. Walter Dexter.. The Nonesuch Dickens. No 849 of 877 Sets. 22 Volumes plus Steel plate and correspondence in clamshell box. Plus First edition of Martin Chuzzlewit.. Nonesuch Press, 1937.

Price: US$5750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Nonesuch books are Very Good plus. Set is lacking 3 volumes. Great Expectations, Christmas Books and Edwin Drood. Lovely set with no previous owner s markings. Large octavo various color buckram hardcovers with Morocco titles on spines. Top edge gilt. 2 volumes have sunned spine. One tissue guard is wrinkled. 3 additional volumes includes Great Expectations LEC; Master H Clock 3 volume first edition set and nice First edition of Martin Chuzzlewit. Great Expectations is a limited editions club with new preface by Bernard Shaw and signed by the illustrator G Ross at the rear. Good with moderate wear. Includes The Mystery Of the Unhappy Ending pamphlet by Macy and Shaw. Nice rebound first edition of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall. 1844. Includes letter of authentication signed by Arthur Waugh. Steel plate The lovely lady has her fortune told. from Our Mutual Friend. The 21 Nonesuch volumes are VG plus clean and tight with light general wear. The clamshell box is near fine. Nonesuch titles: Letters (3). Collected Papers (2). Our Mutual Friend. Pickwick Papers. Bleak House. A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist. American Notes. Reprinted Pieces. Martin Chuzzlewit. Old Curiosity Shop. David Copperfield. Little Dorrit. Sketches by Boz. Dombey and Son. Nicholas Nickleby. Dickensia. Barnaby Rudge. Clamshell case with Steel plate. Also, 3 volume first edition of Master Humphrey s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Fair with spines heavily chipped. Needs Rebinding. Text and illustrations are VG. No fixing or markings. Bookplates on the 3 front pastedowns. The Reduced dealer discount on this consigned set. Overseas shipping at cost. Likely $400 US$ to UK in several boxes.

Seller: Bristlecone Books RMABA, Ridgway, CO, U.S.A.