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Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: RE-BOUND IN A LATER CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL TWO SIDED ADVERT LEAF TO FRONT & HALF TITLE BOUND IN, CATALOGUE & ORIGINAL GREEN CARD BACK COVER BOUND TO REAR, ALL COMPLETE BUT LACKING THE ORIGINAL FRONT GREEN CARD COVER. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7 x 4 INCHES. MINOR COVER WEAR WITH FRONT HINGE COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD, VERTICAL CREASE TO A NUMBER OF PAGES, OCCASIONAL MINOR MARKS & LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$423.31 + shipping
Description: Half title, vignette title, 8pp cata. ('very important new books' for 1871, with the final leaf removed), ads on e.ps. Orig. pale green printed wrappers; spine chipped at head & tail. A good-plus copy. A short story, inspired by the real life character of Thomas Wainewright, 1794-1847, an author, critic and artist who was accused of poisoning several relatives in order to obtain insurance money. He was arrested in 1837, and evidently intrigued by the sensational allegations, Dickens and a group of literary friends went to see him in Newgate Prison (see Pilgrim Letters, vol. I, p.277). The allegations of murder were not proved, but Wainewright was nonetheless convicted of forgery, for which he was transported to Tasmania. Dickens was commissioned to write this work for the American periodical The New York Ledger, where it was published in three instalments in August-September 1859. It appeared in All the Year Round the following August. Wainewright is represented by the central character Julius Slinkton, 'a sharper who had played for a great stake and had been outwitted and had lost the game'. This is the first UK book edition, with a 24-page introduction by Hotten, forming a 'short sketch of [the] scoundrel's career'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$490.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in book form; signed binding of F.BEDFORD,(1799-1883) a leading London binder of the time, full polished calf, spine intricately gilt with raised bands and french 18th cent. style flowers, covers with double gilt rules, inner gilt margis, gilt edges; binding weakend by a split between the first board and the spine; on pastedown bookplate of the great collector Cortland Field Bishop (1870-1935); inside perfect condition; 89 pages;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France