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[DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist.. Richard Bentley, London, 1839.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 3 vols. Illustrated. Small 8vo, old half morocco; gilt spines; marbled sides; t.e.g. Second edition. Shallow chip at the top of the spine of Vol. I which has a 2" split to the top of the upper joint; otherwise very nice.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$635.31 + shipping
Description: First Editions. Five Volumes. 22 x 14 cm. Vol.1: vii, 636 pages, 16 Plates / Vol.2: vii, 636 pages, 13 Plates / Vol.3: viii, 628 pages, 12 Plates / Vol.4: vii, 632 pages, 15 Plates / Vol.5: vi, 673 pages, 18 Plates. Vol.1-4: Black half-leather over marbled boards. Raised Bands. Vol.5: Brown half-leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end papers. Black spine labels. See images. Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Gilt titles on spines faded out on volumes 1-4. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Some spotting and age darkening. Overall a very nice set. See images. Charles Dickens worked as the Editor of Bentley's Miscellany between 1836 and 1839. Oliver Twist, one of Dickens' most important books was published in parts over the first five volumes of the Miscellany, under his pseudonym of 'Boz'. There are other smaller texts by Dickens included in those five volumes. The Oliver Twist sections are illustrated by George Cruikshank. Please note: The five volumes contain all the plates listed, however, the page numbers given in the 'List of Plates' is not always accurate. Sprache: english.
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
DICKENS, Charles.. Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. 2nd edn. 3 vols.. Richard Bentley. 1839, 1839.
Price: US$779.40 + shipping
Description: Half titles, fronts & plates by George Cruikshank, 4pp ads vol. I; sl. spotting or browning to plates. Uncut in orig. purple-brown vertical-grained cloth, imprints at tails of spines; carefully recased. A good-plus copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. 2nd edn. 3 vols.. Richard Bentley. 1839, 1839.
Price: US$921.11 + shipping
Description: Half titles, fronts & plates by George Cruikshank, 4pp ads vol. I; sl. spotting or browning to plates. Uncut in orig. purple-brown vertical-grained cloth, imprints at tails of spines; carefully recased. Early signature of Acheson in vol. I, & later labels of Andrew Brown in each vol. A good-plus copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. London Richard Bentley 1839, 1839.
Price: US$942.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd Edition. [ii], [1], 2-331; [ii], [1], 2-307; [ii], [1], 2-315pp. Small octavo. Three volumes. Contemporary half green pebbled calf over marbled boards. Discrete professional restoration to spine and corners. Spine in 6 compartments with gilt titles to second. Raised bands flanked with double gilt ruling. Some chipping to marbled papers on edges of boards. Plates browned, else very clean internally. Lacking half titles. very good A nicely bound second edition of Charles Dickens' beloved Oliver Twist, issued just one year after the first edition and in the original Triple Decker format. With the 24 engravings by George Cruikshank that are included in the first edition. This second novel by Charles Dickens introduced Oliver Twist, who has endured as one of the most compelling child protagonists in fiction. An excellent set of this classic in an attractive contemporary binding.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist. Richard Bentley, London UK, 1839.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition set of three books of Oliver Twist in custom made slip case. Volumes 1 and 2 with contemporary half calf bindings. Light wear to the boards. Volume 3 rebound in original faded cloth retaining the original spine. Browning and foxing within the text of the volumes. Three frontpieces and twenty one plates. 8vo
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist. London Richard Bentley, 1839.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, complete in three volumes. Oliver Twist was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838 before the serialization ended. Here we have the second edition released just one year later and still preserved in their original bindings, which is quite uncommon. Bound in scarce publisher?s original purple/brown cloth, with titles in gilt to spines and blindstamping to boards. A full suite of plates by George Cruikshank. Collated as fully complete throughout. Externally the cloth is moderately soiled, spines sunned and some trace of prior liquid/humidity damage to back board of volume three. No interior pages affected and internally clean aside from moderate foxing to prelims and engravings. Corners bumped and fraying. Professionally recased, preserving the original bindings throughout.
Seller: Sparrow's Bookshop, IOBA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. In three volumes. Richard Bentley 1839, London, 1839.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In 3 volumes complete. Second edition. 331, (4); 307; 315 pp. Publisher's original blind-stamped brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Chipping & wear to spine ends with a short tear. Boards rubbed and marked. Yellow endpapers. With 24 full-page plates by George Cruikshank, as called for. Spotting & browning to plates and scattered spotting & staining throughout. Hinges split in volume 2 only. With 'Charles Dickens' as author on the title pages and 'Boz.' on the spines. An unsophisticated set of the second edition in the original cloth. The cloth binding is the same as that of the first edition. A Good set. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist in 3 volumes. Richard Bentley, London UK, 1839.
Price: US$1288.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good second edition of Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist in three volumes. Original cloth with gilt lettering on the spines. Rebacked preserving cloth. Twenty four illustrated plates with spotting and staining. Otherwise generally clean contents. A couple of tears. 8vo
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist.. Richard Bentley, London, 1839.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Early edition of Dickens' classic ânovel of crime and terrorâ (Baugh et al). Octavo, three volumes bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. An attractive binding. From the jollity of The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), âDickens 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 Twistâ (Baugh et al., 1346-47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$6441.31 + shipping
Description: First US edition of one of the best-known of all works of English fiction, unrestored in the original quarter cloth. Oliver Twist was first serialized in the UK in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. Before serialization was complete, the full novel was issued in the UK in book form in November 1838. The publishing history of the first US edition is complicated. Dickens's works did not have copyright protection in the US, to his irritation, and his novels were subject to rapid competing piracies. Lea and Blanchard made a payment of £50 to Dickens, and £60 to his UK publisher Richard Bentley, in return for advance sheets of Oliver Twist to gain an advantage over other American publishers. From these advance sheets, Lea and Blanchard issued a separate part serialization, and planned a one-volume illustrated edition, which was indeed the first printed in early December 1838. However, delays in receiving Cruikshank's illustrations from the UK ensured the sheets of the one-volume edition were not published until 2 February 1839. Lea and Blanchard feared their competitors would publish first, pirating copies of the UK edition which were making their way over the Atlantic. They quickly printed this two-volume edition, published on 19 December 1838, the title page post-dated 1839. Gimbel A33; Walter Smith, Charles Dickens: A Bibliography of his First American Editions, 2012, pp. 83-7. See Kathleen Tillotson, "The Philadelphia editions of 1838-9", in The Clarendon Edition of Oliver Twist, 1966. Two volumes, octavo. Original purple quarter cloth, printed paper label to spines, drab paper-covered sides. Housed in a brown half calf solander box. With 2 pages of preliminary advertisements in vol. I (first state, signed with an asterisk but not "1"), and 16 pages in vol. II (some copies have 12 pages, without established priority). Contemporary ownership signature of one Joseph Hall to front free endpaper of each volume; recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Light sunning to spines, slight wear to labels and corners, contents a little browned and foxed as usual, vol. I a little shaken, pp. 155/6 of same with 80 mm closed tear affecting pagination and headline without loss, pp. 81/2 of vol. II with 81 mm closed tear into text without loss. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom