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dickens, charles. the cricket of the hearth. bradbury and evans, 1846.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, second state with "New Edition Oliver Twist" ad in rear. In stamped brown cloth boards with couple small smudges. Light wear to corners. Front hinge starting to crack. Bookplate to front pastedwon.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This copy has the ad. leaf in the second and usual state, with ?No. I. of? on a line by itself. 1st Edition. 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Half black calf with black boards. Edgewear, splits in the gutters on the front hinge. Library plate on the front pastedown (nobody borrowed it) Pencil insc. on ffep. dated 1899. Signs of pencil erasings on the two blanks following the half-title.Rear hinge cracked but holding very well. Age-toning to the end-papers.Contents clean and tight with a little toning to the page edges. Small spot of old red sealing wax on rear cover. 174pp. plus 2pp. pub. ads. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2nd state ( with three lines instead of two on the Oliver Twist advertisement at end). Engraved frontispiece and extra pictorial title and illustrations. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches), pages: 174:(2, advertisements). Original red cloth blocked in blind and pictorially in gilt. Headbands chipped, ragged 1 1/2 inch tear at head of upper joint, upper joint rubbed with a few narrow small punctures, corners rubbed.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846 hardback xii 311 marble edged pp With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. spine cloth badly damaged, and book partially detached from worn boards inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.
Seller: D2D Books, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated December 1845. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. New -end-papers and finely restored re-backed spine. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$375.25 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication page dated December 1845. Finely illustrated frontis. and title-page. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. Owner's name in heavy ink dated May 3rd 1846 to the inside front board. [ The book was first sold in December 1845 with a 1846 date] IN ORIGINAL STATE WITH A TENDER SPINE AS OFTEN, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Size: small 12mo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book. Second state with two pages of ads and promotion of "New Edition of Oliver Twist." Red ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustrations on front panel and spine; blind-stamped decorative borders on front and back panels. All external page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled, edges and spine are sunned. Spine folds are rubbed, upper and lower edges at head and tail of board spine are split. External outermost upper and lower edges of board panels are scuffed and rubbed through in several places including fore-edge corner tips. Age-toning with small stains and light smudges to text pages. Text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, with uncommon first state of the advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist beginning "On the First of January.". 12mo (17cm). Rebound in early twentieth-century half leather, gilt decoration and title on spine, cloth-covered boards, with original cloth from front board and spine bound in at rear; marbled endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; [8], [1]-174, [2] pp; frontispiece, vignette title page, and 12 illustrations in the text. Clean and sturdy, with some wear to top edges of boards and ad leaf at rear partially detached: a Very Good copy. One of Dickens' three Christmas books, complete with half-title, ad leaf, and all 14 illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer, with some but not all of the internal flaws listed in Smith. Though the title page states 1846, this book was actually first published in late December 1845. ECKEL p.119-20. YALE/GIMBEL A92. SMITH II (Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth) pp. 37-43.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, First edition, 2nd issue, 1846. Hardcover, with cocked spine, and general wear to cloth cover, with rubbing to cloth and bent corners. The spine has split to cloth and repaired. Gilt edges and gilt fireplace illustration the front cover. Author's dedication to Lord Jeffery dated December 1845. "New Edition of Oliver Twist" on the advertisement page in the back of the book. The 175 pages of contents are clean and clear. slight cracking inside front cover with endpapers. Various illustrators as: Leech, Doyle, Landseer, Standfield,and Maclise.
Seller: Pandora's Books, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$489.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing. (8), 174, (2) pp. + 1 engraved frontispiece and 1 engraved title-leaf. Illustrated. Publisher's decorated and blindstamped red cloth with gilt edges. Boards with some faint, trifle soiling. Spine just slightly slanted, spine ends and corners just slightly bumped, the cloth of the front joint with ca 2 cm tear, binding still firm. A couple of pages with some slight foxing, interior else fine. A well-kept copy of what supposedly is the second printing of Dickens' third Christmas book. With the advertisement at the rear announcing a "New edition of Oliver Twist", followed by three lines in italics. Supposedly the second printing of the first edition of Dickens' third Christmas book.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First single volume edition of Dickensâ classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Original front wrapper bound in. Armorial bookplate. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the authorâs own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 311pp. Bound in 3/4 green leather, brown boards. Early 1 volume edition, with preface for the 3rd edition. Illustrated with 24 steel engravings by George Cruikshank. Marble endpapers and foredges. Scuffing to the outer hinges. Small stain to back cover, scuff to cloth on back cover. Front gutter is cracked. Spine toned to brown.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$629.65 + shipping
Description: Front. & plates by George Cruikshank; some light foxing. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine directly lettered in gilt & with gilt compartments, marbled boards; spine a little rubbed. Armorial bookplate of William Preston, Ellel Grange. The first one-volume edition, reprinting the author's preface to the third edition.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$629.65 + shipping
Description: Front. & plates by George Cruikshank; occasional sl. off-setting. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine directly lettered in gilt & with attractive gilt compartments, marbled boards; neatly rebacked retaining orig. spine strip, sl. rubbing to hinges & corners. A good-plus copy. The first one-volume edition, reprinting the author's preface to the third edition.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, Fleet Street, 1846.
Price: US$636.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red covers with slightly faded gilt titles and vignette to front. Corners bumped. Gilt titles to spine.All edges gilt. Internally exceptionally clean with double illustrated title page as new.Dedication page has a postage stamp' 1p centenary testimonial 1812-1912. A Tribute to Genius with portrait of Dickens.' All pages clean and bright with no foxing. 174pp with the two pages of ads.the first for Oliver Twist.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$636.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper, "Kay Gittings 1947", i.e. Katherine Edith Gittings, née Campbell, the first wife of writer Robert Gittings. Dearer inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. A travelogue of Italy, where Dickens toured for some months with his family in 1844. Elements of this book were first published in 'The Daily News' under the title 'Travelling Sketches - Written on the Road'; the remainder was composed specially for this bookform edition.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, CHARLES. OLIVER TWIST. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$714.18 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp: [v]vi-xii [1]2-311. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected with Twenty-Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. Full red Bayntun Riviere leather trimmed in gilt with Dickens cameo, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, and facsimile of author's signature stamped in gilt on the back board. Decorated endpapers, and twenty-four steel engravings by Cruikshank. Contains the author's preface to The Third Edition, dated April, 1841. Laid in is a single typed page with the Eckels collation.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. [2] (two pages advertising new and revised edition of "Oliver Twist" and a new untitled novel (Dombey and Son, per Eckel), 269, [1], followed by two pages of Dickens titles. With the original backstrip, titled in gilt, bound-in. Bound in red morocco, gilt spine titles with compartments tooled in gilt with raised bands, triple rule gilt frames in gilt. Turn-ins rolled in gilt. Binding signed Zaehnsdorf. Top edge gilt. Endpapers with slight offsetting; front free endpaper with chip to lower corner; fore-edge with superficial dampstain. Corners a trifle worn and scuff on rear cover; joints expertly repaired with discrete tissue strengthening to joints. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. A sumptuous Zaehnsdorf binding for Dickens' dispatches from Italy: The first few accounts were published 1846 in the paper he edited, The Daily News; five more were added to create Pictures from Italy, also 1846, presented here in the first issue of the first edition. Italy's built (and decayed) environment has been documented since Vitruvius. Dickens' brilliance? His depictions of street life, including a public execution. ECKEL, pp. 126-127; with all the points revealed by SMITH, Part II, p. 49.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: The 1846 1st edition, 2nd state (including "New Edition of Oliver Twist", followed by 3 lines in italics, at the rear). Well-preserved and VG in its red cloth, with bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and bright, decorative gilt-flourishes and lettering along the spine. Very light soiling at the panels and mild darkening to the spine. Internally very clean, with the lightest soiling at the endapers and the slightest hint of limited spotting. 16mo, 174 pgs., all edges gilt. The book is wrapped in a custom-made linen dustjacket (with leather spine labels) and, beyond that, is housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.14 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. 4 Bl., 174 S., 2 S. Anz. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz, gestoch. Vortitel und 12 Textillustrationen von Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Standfield, John Leech und Edwin Landseer. Originalleinen mit Gold- und Blindprägung und Ganzgoldschnitt. Erstausgabe. - Zweite Variante der Anzeigenseite mit der Überschrift "New Edition of Oliver Twist". - (Rücken fachgerecht restauriert. Einband fleckig und etwas berieben). Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr including frontis and extra title, 6.5 x 4.25, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, binding by Bayntun-Riviere (though not identified as such), 174 pp with two pp of ads in back, covers lightly rubbed, hinges loose, pp toned and with scattered finger soil, else a nice copy with original red cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. FIRST ED, Second State, with all points in Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography (but with three-line notice for "Oliver Twist" on rear ad). Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, the original cloth covers backed and cornered in red morocco, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands and gilt ruled and decorated compartments, lettered in gilt in two compartments. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A fine clean copy, the binding well preserved. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress. , 1846.
Price: US$954.02 + shipping
Description: First one volume edition. With twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank. 8vo. xii, 311, [1] pp. Late nineteenth century half red straight-grain morocco with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five raised bands outlined in blind, second panel lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. Oliver Twist was originally published in three volumes in 1838. The present edition was the first time that the three parts were printed together in a single volume. A good copy, joints and corners rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Previous owners bookplate to front paste-down. John Podeschi, Dickens and Dickensiana. (A39).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The New and Revised edition with a preface by Dickens who was 36 years old at the time of publication. A very good copy in half leather. Rubbing to the front and rear panels and sporadic foxing, but better than usually found. H and C Treacher bookseller in Brighton label on the cover verso. The binding is tight and despite rubbing to covers this is an attractive copy of a very early edition of this Dickens favorite classic.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: . The Adventures of Oliver Twist. or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank. A new edition, revised and corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank. A new edition, revised and corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First octavo one-volume edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm). xii, 311, [1, colophon] pp. With twenty-four inserted plates, including frontispiece. Half-title present. Half polished tan calf, over tan cloth boards. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with red and blue morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Front hinge cracked but firm. Inner hinge split but holding. Some rubbing to edges and corners. A marginal repair and a small hole to plate facing page 136. A dampstain (?) to top edge of plates facing pages 192, 204, 212 ans 216 but not affecting image. Overall very good. Oliver was first published in book form in 1838, and appeared in a number of so-called editions until it was "extensively revised and appeared in ten monthly parts from January-October 1846. [before it was published] in one volume on September 26, 1846" (Smith, 36-37). This printing was done from a copy of the 1841 edition. Cruikshank designed a new cover (containing 11 scenes from the novel) for the issue of this edition in parts, and the plates from various three-volume editions were retouched and re-bitten by J. Findlay. Eckel, 63. Smith 4, Note 5. Gimbel A39. HBS 69010. $1,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Oliver Twist.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$1127.66 + shipping
Description: "A New Edition, Revised and Corrected." First edition in one volume. Tall 8vo., full contemporary tan calf, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, leather spine labels, gilt and blindstamped borders, inner dentelles gilt, A.E.G., xii, 311pp. With 24 plates. Light foxing throughout, plates foxed with browning at the perimeter, plate at page 85 repaired, minor repair to upper board, a touch of rubbing but this is still an attractive copy. Sadleir 696c, Gimbel A39.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1265.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, handsomely bound in full dark green crushed levant morocco by the French binder S. David showing the refinement and delicacy associated with the best traditional bindings of the ages. The spine with raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, fine French marbled endleaves, binding edges gilt tooled, the turnovers with gilt roll tooling at the borders surrounding triple gilt fillet rules surrounding another roll tooled inner border gilt, all edges gilt, the original cloth covers bound in at the front and rear. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A very fine copy, tight, clean and beautifully preserved, the spine panel mellowed to honey-green as is normal. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1590.03 + shipping
Description: First one-volume edition of the author's second novel, the first appearance of the definitive text, revised by Dickens from the prior three-volume edition. This copy comes from the library of William Foyle and is in an attractive Samuel Tout binding. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and then as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from Bentley. His revisions offer a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his subsequent experience of the novel's public readings. The one-volume edition was issued in ten monthly parts from January to October 1846, and in the present form on completion. This edition is scarcer than the preceding three-volume edition: "many collectors prize this edition very highly and consequently it is the more valuable of the Oliver Twists" (Eckel, p. 62). From 1868 to 1879, Samuel Tout (1841-1902) bound books in Soho, London. He then worked in Whitechapel with William Coward, continuing on his own after 1880. Tout was also an early member of the staff of Karslake's Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898. Provenance: though unmarked as such, this copy comes from the collection of William Foyle (1883-1963), the co-founder of the eponymous chain of booksellers. Foyle's grandson acquired a substantial portion of the original collection at the landmark Foyle Library sale in 2000, including the present copy. Eckel, pp. 59-63; Gimbel A39; Kremers, pp. 90-3 & 188-95. Octavo (208 x 129 mm). Late 19th-century brown half morocco by Tout, spine with raised bands forming six compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled paper sides and endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk bookmarker. With 24 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. With 19th-century armorial bookplate of Daniel Drew (1850-1914) of Burnley on the front pastedown. Bound without the half-title. Light rubbing, faint sunning to spine, minor foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, slight browning to content margins, faint offsetting from plates to several leaves: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1749.03 + shipping
Description: Half title, plates by George Cruikshank. Beautifully bound in sl. later full scarlet crushed morocco by Tout, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders & dentelles. With the orig. dark purple cloth bound in at end. t.e.g. A v.g. handsome copy. The first one-volume edition with the plates re-worked by Cruikshank. Dickens's preface to the third edition of 1841 precedes the text.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1908.03 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, and unusual thus - Smith notes he has only seen a few copies in this state. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December 1845, the title page postdated 1846. It proved very popular - Dickens's friend Forster recorded that it doubled the circulation of its predecessors. That is since recognized as an exaggeration, but it nonetheless quickly underwent two editions, and by January there were 17 stage adaptations in progress (Schlicke, p. 128). The first state has the advertisement for Oliver Twist opening in two italic lines, the second state has the notice expanded to three. Smith, II, 6; Eckel, pp. 119-20. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2011. Octavo. Original red cloth, lettering and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Engraved frontispiece and title page, 12 illustrations in the text. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of G. Mann of Cornhill to front pastedown, and bookplate of Emanuel Boutcher (1824-1888) of Grateley House in Hampshire. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Very minimal sunning to spine and trivial splits at joint ends, ever so slightly shaken. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Cricket on the Hearth, The. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: "To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!" DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, with first state of "Oliver Twist" advertisement. Foolscap octavo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 102 mm.). [iv], 174, [2, advertisements] pp. Additional engraved frontispiece and pictorial title (by Maclise) with original tissue guard. Illustrated throughout in the text. Handsomely bound ca. 1880 by Samuel Tout (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free endpaper). Full blue crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively ruled and bordered in gilt, spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, light brown patterned imitation silk liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. A very fine example. "Although the titlepage is postdated 1846, The Cricket on the Hearth was published on December 20, 1845." (Smith). "Of the 14 illustrations in this Christmas book, seven were designed by John Leech; three by Richard Doyle; one by Clarkson Stanfield; two by Daniel Maclise; and one by Edwin Landseer." (Smith, p. 42). John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. Victorian binder Samuel Tout worked out of Nassau Street in Soho, London 1868-79. He then partnered with William Coward in a bindery in Whitechapel but in 1880 continued on his own in the same location. Smith II, 6.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2131.52 + shipping
Description: The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, first revised and first one volume English edition, a fine rebound copy in a full leather Riviere binding with raised spine consisting of 6 compartments (2 text and 4 decorative, all in gold-gilt), double ruled gold-gilt along the margins of both front and rear covers, edges of boards finely decorated, marbled-end-papers and gold-gilt page edges all around. Furthermore this copy exhibits hardly and foxing and the twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank are all quite nice. A most handsome and desirable copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good condition copy of the third edition of this classic title, a highly significant revised and corrected version. This re-issue is both desirable and quite scarce, and forms the basis for the Oliver Twist text as currently published. The author's preface in this edition adds to its importance. The cover is half leather and half boards, with ribbed leather back strip featuring gilded print and ornamentation. The sewn binding is tight. The back strip is solidly attached to the front cover, however, it is separated from the back cover. A small, <.5-inch, piece is missing from the back strip where it intersects with the back cover, but is included to re-glue. We will re-glue the entire back strip, if so requested. The book's interior is clean, with some foxing on some pages. Included are 24 one-sided illustrated plates, which are steel engravings produced by George Cruikshank, the same illustrator as the 1838 first edition of this title. Charles Dickens is the attributed author in this edition, rather than the Boz pen-name he used in 1838.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3180.06 + shipping
Description: First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from the original publisher Bentley; many of his revisions were in the direction of a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his experience of public readings. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). "Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Once the scene shifted to London, however, Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend of a 'realistic' tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver (the first of many such child figures in Dickens), the farcical comedy of the Bumbles, the sinister fascination of Fagin, the horror of Nancy's murder, and the powerful evocation of London's dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld, all helped to drive Dickens's popularity to new heights" (ODNB). Gimbel A39; Carr B98. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, covers panelled in blind, gilt garland to front cover, repeated in blind to rear cover, light yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and 23 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Spine sunned, light wear to cloth around extremities and some superficial splitting to rear joint, some minor marks within but on the whole clean and fresh, very good condition overall.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of DOMBEY AND SON [20 parts in 19]. , 1846.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: [a handsome set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in October 1846 and ending in April 1848. The serialization of this novel began upon the end of serialization of OLIVER TWIST (the scarcest of all "Dickens in parts," occurring eight years after its publication in book form); until OLIVER TWIST these monthly parts of Dickens's works were issued by Chapman & Hall, but were now being issued by Bradbury & Evans. Part XVIII of DOMBEY AND SON includes the first so-called "dark plate" (appropriately, "On the dark Road") to appear in a Dickens work -- possible due to a new process; there would be another in DAVID COPPERFIELD, followed by ten in BLEAK HOUSE and eight in LITTLE DORRIT. At the end of serialization, DOMBEY AND SON was published in book form -- the preliminary leaves for which are supplied at the end of the final monthly part. As for issue points (there are three), this set like most is mixed: it reads "Capatin" on p. 324 (the uncommon 1st state), "if" is absent on p. 426 (1st state), and "431" is present on that page (2nd state) -- curious, in that pages 426 and 431 are in the same part. (The word "Delight" on page 284 is a faux issue point, since all copies in parts have that error.) This is a very good-plus set -- fine in appearance, because all the wrappers (front and rear) are unusually clean; six of the front wrappers bear the small ink-stamp of "Webster & Co., 60 Piccadilly". Two of the rear wrappers (I and XVI) are "borrowed" from a different part, and all the delicate (plain) spines are expertly renewed. Notably, this set has ALL the advertisements and slips that are specified in the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography for a complete set. All the plates have varying degrees of darkening or foxing in the margins, but only Part II has plates that are significantly foxed. In all, an absolutely complete, clean set, with allowances for the "renewals." Hatton & Cleaver pp 225-250. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with morocco spine.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20288.77 + shipping
Description: Half title, plates. With the original green variant cloth casing, bound into full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, triple-ruled borders & dentelles in gilt; spine very sl. faded. A very handsome copy. In cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of the first one-volume edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with George Cruikshank's original watercolour design of Fagin in the Condemned Cell. This constitutes one of Cruikshank's finest and most recognisable Dickens illustration, portraying the wretched Fagin seated in his cell at Newgate, anxiously awaiting the day of his execution, and contemplating his demise. Bound in opposite the plate at p.304, the watercolour is signed by Cruikshank, and also adorned, in the lower margin, with a small self-portrait in pencil, and three further unidentified sketched portraits.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom