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Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: , xiv, 625 pages, complete with 39 plates as listed plus vignette title page, 3-line errata on page xiv, bound from parts with first part title page bound to rear and title page dated 1857 bound at front First Edition , slight bumping to corners, few small marks to boards, foxing throughout including to some plates, good condition , half green morocco with green cloth to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine, 5 raised bands, full gilt edges and marbled endpapers , Octavo, 22.5 cm x 15 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1771.36 + shipping
Description: Orig. pale blue paper wrappers, neatly bound with all preliminary material in modern pale blue binder's cloth, spines lettered in gilt; the front wrapper to Part XIX/XX has been substituted with one from Part IX, one or two tears, with occasional loss, from ads. Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A decent set of the parts, bound with most of the original advertisements, into plain blue cloth. With the slip in part 16, alerting the reader to the error in printing 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois' in the previous issue.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. Bradbury & Evans 1855-57, London, 1855.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The original twenty parts in nineteen of the influential Dickens novel 'Little Dorrit', uncommon to see in the original parts like this with all the original plates present, including the dark plates. Complete as twenty parts bound in nineteen, as issued, with parts XIX/XX being published as a double-decker.First edition, first issue of the text, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in Part XV to pages 469-473.In a custom cloth box, in a very good indeed condition.Collated, all front advertisements, slips, and errata and present.Complete with two plates to each part besides part XXIX/XX which, as a double-decker volume, has four plates. Including the engraved title page bound in to Part XIX/XX.Dark plates present to Parts I, II, III, IV, VII, VIII, and XIX/XX.Collated; the extra 'Winter Season advert' to Part I is lacking; in Part X the first and second adverts are torn with significant loss; in part XI 'Cassell's Illustrated Almanack' is only six pages, rather than the eight pages called for; and in Part XIII lacking the slip 'New Serial Work.Ask Mama'.'Little Dorrit' follows Amy Dorrit, who was born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors prison. It was originally published in monthly instalments over nineteen months, and this is the first edition published in a complete book.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, most often known by his penname '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 the original publisher's paper wraps, in a custom cloth box. Externally, generally smart, with some discoloration to the wraps. Light edge wear to the wraps, heavier to the backstrip where edge wear has resulted in loss. Both wraps to Part I are detached but present. A few light handling marks to the wraps. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Wraps of Part VII are lifting a little to the tail. Wraps of Part VIII are detached but present, with large closed tears to the front wrap, and a few smaller closed tears to the following leaves of adverts. Part IV has been rebacked with white paper to the spine. Circulating library sticker to the front wrap of Part XVI. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned and clean with the occasional spot, including some spots to the plates. Faint tide mark to the dark plate of Part II. Cloth box with a few light marks, in a very good indeed condition. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original printed blue wrappers, (9 x 5.75 inches, 3.5 inches thick), housed in custom clamshell box. 19 parts in 20, illustrated by H.K. Browne. First Edition/First Issue, with errata slip in part XVI ("Rigaud" should have been "Blandois"), and Uncorrected errors in part XV. Showing some expected wear and chipping, heaviest to No. 1. Spine of box is sunned. Remains a desirable copy of the scarce first issue. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION in the original monthly parts. These ORIGINAL 20 parts in 19 are bound with the publisher's blue/green wrappers with illustrations by H.K. Browne. The wrappers are complete with some repair. The pages are clean with some wear to the edges. Overall, a lovely set housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1855.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original blue illustrated paper wrappers. First Editions, First Issues, with thirty-two pages of preliminary advertisements; text continuously paginated 1-625; two 16-page publisher's catalogs inserted before text of Parts I and XIII, seven leaves of preliminaries follow text of final part. Frontispiece and thirty-nine additional inserted plates, two per part, seven of which are "dark" plates, by H. K Browne; twelve pairs with original tissue between them. Part XIX/XX rebacked. Part IV, one or two other parts with small edge tears mended from verso. Part XV reads "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois," A lovely set housed in a custom clamshell.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3967.85 + shipping
Description: Original pale blue paper wrappers. Occasional sl. rubbing or dusting, but overall a v.g. set in custom-made brown cloth fold-over box. Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A well-preserved set of the parts, retaining all plates, prelims, catalogues, advertisements & slips. There are several extra slips bound in, not identified in H&C. With the slip in part 16, alerting the reader to the error in printing 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois'. Part I has signs of some very minor expertly executed repair work to spine strip, but all other plates are in a very good unrepaired state, with only minimal wear to heads & tails of some spines. Part 19/20 remains unopened.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4534.69 + shipping
Description: Sewn as issued in orig. pale blue printed wrappers. Vol. I spine a little chipped, but overall a v.g. set in custom-made dark blue cloth fold-over box. Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A very well-preserved set of the parts, with few signs of repair work, retaining all plates, prelims, catalogues, ads & slips, with only sl. variation of ads in Part XIX/XX. With the slip in part XVI, regarding the error in printing 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit.With Illustrations By H. K. Browne.. , 1855.
Price: US$4630.02 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, Bouverie Street, [December, 1855 - June, 1857]. 8vo., 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued, with 40 engraved plates including frontis and title vignette; original printed blue wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers, with a variety of publishers ads, and slips bound-in. Wrappers have sustained a varying amount of chipping and wear, plates are foxed and damp stained, most of the parts have been repaired, otherwise a good set with most of the advertising slips intact. First edition in original parts, with the white âMissingâ slip intact in part 16. "In Little Dorrit Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government, against its financiers, against its artists and even against its ordinary citizens who, at least in Bleeding Heart Yard, believed that foreigners were always immoral. that foreigners had no independent spirit." (Ackroyd, 758). The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were unable to work until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickensâ own father had been sent. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional "Circumlocution Office". In addition he satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many reviewers were critical of the book upon its publication. However, Dickens' friend Hans Christian Andersen advised the author to ignore the critics: "They are forgotten in a week, and your book stands and lives" (Ackroyd, 780). Tchaikovsky, a voracious reader and theatre-goer when he was not composing, was similarly entranced by the book.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Little Dorrit. , 1855.
Price: US$5200.00 + shipping
Description: "DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857. Nineteen parts (20 numbers). Octavo, original pictorial blue paper wrappers (several sympathetically respined or repaired). Housed in custom chemise and slipcase. $5200.First edition, first issue, in the original serialized parts, with cover design and illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.Little Dorrit "is a wonderfully rich novelrich in ideas, rich in characterization, rich in incident, and written in a richly imaginative prose many critics regard it as Dickens' masterpiece" (Watts, 108). "So it is that in Little Dorrit Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government, against its financiers, against its artists, and even against its ordinary citizens In Little Dorrit, money itself is seen to be a faithless and corrupt delusion. Even when the Dorrits become rich, they cannot escape their past. The only hope is to be found in endurance, which was precisely the message [Dickens] was giving to some of his correspondents in the same period" (Ackroyd, 758). Complete with all text, titles, plates, and errata called for in the first issue, including the character name "Rigaud" rather than "Blandois" on pp. 469, 470, 472, and 474, and the subsequent correction slip bound in after the plates in Number XVI. All numbers with all advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, with the following minor exceptions: Part 13 without one slip to follow the plates, "Household Words"; Part 19/20 without four-page insert at rear. Part 19/20 with rear wrapper substituted from Part 8 rear wrapper from another copy. Hatton & Cleaver, 305-30. Eckel, 82-84. Yale/Gimbel A140. Three parts with early owner signatures on front wrappers; bookseller embossed stamp to front wrapper of Part 1 and first ad leaf of Part 16.Text generally quite clean, only a few plates with minor foxing or faint tidemarks. Parts 1, 5, 6, 9, 10-12, 19/20 neatly respined, a few others with repairs to spine; a few wrappers with slight edge-wear or creasing, as often. A very good, attractive set, handsomely boxed."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5475.12 + shipping
Description: First edition, in the original monthly parts published between December 1855 and June 1857, and conforming to Hatton & Cleaver's collation of earliest issue throughout. Each part has the neat contemporary ownership signature on the front wrapper of "Mrs Sabin" - it is unusual to have a full set with the same original provenance. Peter Ackroyd declares the novel to be the author's "single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government, against its financiers, against its artists, and even against its ordinary citizens. He had of course made attacks of such a kind before but they had always been directed against specific abuses and, in Oliver Twist for example, the powers of money and benevolence together could at least rescue the doomed orphan child. In Little Dorrit, money itself is seen to be a faithless and corrupt delusion" (p. 758). Hatton & Cleaver 307-330. Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, 1990. 20 numbers in 19 monthly parts, as issued. Original pale blue pictorial wrappers. Housed in custom black quarter morocco solander box. With 40 black and white plates, including 8 dark plates, all by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Slight wear to some spines, slight chip to front cover of final part, otherwise an excellent clean copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings bound in the ORIGINAL printed wrappers from the publisher with 20 parts bound in 19 wrappers. A beautiful set. All the wrappers are ORIGINAL and in great shape. This set has benefitted from some professional restoration to the spines for preservation. The pages are clean. Overall, one of the nicest sets that we have seen housed in a leather clamshell slipcase. We buy Dickens in the original parts.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.