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Price: US$121.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 89 Pp. + 14 Pp Adverts At End. Bound By Morrell [London] In Full Tan Calf With Morocco Author Label (Title Label Lacking But Blindstamping Quite Strong), Full Gilt Spine, Gilt Lines Boards With Corner Tooling, Gilt Edges (Of Boards) With Elaborate Gilt Turn-Ins, Hand Marbled Endpapers, Hand Sewn Headbands With Silk Ribbon, Top Edge Gilt. Front Cover And Half-Title Bound In, Rear Cover Lacking. The First Separate Edition, And The First British Edition. Binding Clean And Bright, Near Fine, Green Cover Slightly Soiled, Last Pages Of Catalog Worn At Corners, Contents Otherwise Near Fine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: 89 [15]. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Bound in red half-leather over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt trim to the spine. The title and author name stamped in gilt. The original printed green cover is detached and laid in. The first separate edition. Dickens wrote this tale while completing 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Great Expectations'. It first appeared in the New York Ledger in August-September, 1859. The second appearance was in a collection of tales published by Peterson of Philadelphia. This edition by Hotten is the first British edition. The introduction on T.G. Wainwright was written by Hotten. The original wrappers and the publishers' advertisements are bound in. A very good copy with some wear to the spine ends and some darkening to the red leather. The first two pages each have a tear at the top.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles. Hunted Down; A Story. Hotten, London, 1870.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With Some Account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the Poisoner. 16mo, full brown morocco, edges rubbed, front hinge professionally repaired, original printed front wrapper bound in. London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. (1870) First separate English edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full-Leather. Fine. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First English edition and first separate edition in book form. Full calf with leather spine label. Spine label extends most of the length of backstrip with title and author printed vertically. Small bookselers label, from Sydney, Australia, inside front cover. Bound with half-title and 8 leaves of adverts as called for at rear. Hotten is the author of the preliminary material about T.G. Wainewright. Dickens had written the story originally for the New York Ledger, which paid him one thousand guineas for the tale. Pubished in 1859 in newspaper form, the tale appeared the a year later in Dickens own periodical publication All Year Round and was reprinted by T.B. Peterson in 1861 in book form, together with "The Lamplighter's Story", et alia. Hotten's was the first individual printing in book form of the tale and the first English edition in book form. Originally published in pale green wrappers, this copy has been rebound in full calf. Interior is clean and free of foxing. An attractive copy of a very scarce edition, even rebound. Podeschi B273; Eckel 198-9. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$972.30 + shipping
Description: First English Edition.Woodcut vignette of The Fatal House, No.12, Conduit Street, W. Green half calf with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering up spine, marbled sides and matching front- and end-papers. Small octavo, 89 pp. + printers imprint, 4 pp. Very small nameplate of george Wells to pastedown, (the man who broke the Bank at Monte Carlo ) Very slightly rubbed, in a very fine condition. Minimal berieben, sehr schönes Exemplar. Englische Erstausgabe.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$1256.06 + shipping
Description: Dickens's short story Hunted Down in three of its first appearances: the first UK edition in serial form, the first UK edition in book form, and the first US edition in book form, housed together in a custom-made box. Hunted Down is based on the case of the notorious poisoner Thomas Wainewright, whom Dickens met following his arrest in 1837. Queen's Quorum describes the story as Dickens's "most important contribution to the detective short story. a fascinating tale of realistic detection, still technically rewarding to all students of the genre. the story transforms real life into 'exquisite' Victorian melodrama". Hunted Down first appeared in the New York Ledger in September 1859. It was first published in the UK in All the Year Round in two weekly issues, 4 and 11 August 1860. It was first published in book form in the US by T. B. Peterson in 1861 along with other Dickens stories, and in the UK by John Camden Hotten in 1870 as a stand-alone story. Queen's Quorum pp. 16-17; Eckel p. 198 (Eckel incorrectly gives the date of All the Year Round appearance as April rather than August). 3 copies (ATYR: 2 numbers unbound; US: original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled and lettered in blind; UK: original wrappers printed in black), housed together in blue cloth solander box. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box, contemporary pencilled signature to each number of All The Year Round. Slight wear to spines of book form copies, All The Year Round numbers a little spotted and leaves loosening. Overall very good.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom