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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 268 pp. With two engravings by Cruikshank, which are free from the dampstaining that affects most of the text. Lacking the illustrated half-title page. 8vo, original cloth-backed plain boards with printed paper label on spine. New Edition, Complete. Tiny ink numerals on endsheets; old ink ownership signature; some dampstaining to text throughout; one gathering partly sprung; spine label tanned and rubbed with several tiny chips. Text in double columns.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1st American edition "New Edition, Complete". A Fair copy. Tall 8vo., 268 pp., 20 plates. Text in double columns. Bound in publishers brown cloth with stamped pattern on covers. Spine has title in gilt. Top third of spine detached, but included. Covers show overall wear and soiling with tips rubbed and bent. Interior is foxed. This American edition contains "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble," and "The Pantomime of Life," by Boz, - sketches published by the Author since the May 15 London collection was issued. Philadelphia, August 1839.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First thus American "complete " edition - First American edtion of the 1839 Sketches with "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" and "The Pantomime of Life" added. August, 1839. Nineteen full page engravings by J. Yeager of George Cruikshank drawings (missing one "The Rugg's at Ramsgate"). Green embossed cloth 10 1/8" x 6 1/4". Large blindstamped design front and back boards. 268pp. Spine of cover gone, pages at front separating, a few tears, a little foxing, boards worn at edges. Needs to be rebound. Flyleaf missing. Some page edges tattered. Rear free endpage loose and torn. Needs to be rebound.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 268, [16] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full binding of brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Mild shelfwear. Chipping and tearing of cloth along edges and spine. Rubbing to front and rear covers. Age-toning and foxing to textblock. Writing of previous owner throughout. With 16 pages of advertisements in rear. Features twenty illustrations by Cruikstank throughout. Shelved in Case 13. 1371288. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, in fours. 268 pp. Twenty plates. Text in double columns. Contemporary calf over cloth boards, gilt-decorated spine with black leather label. Binding extremities rubbed and lightly worn, occasional light foxing and browning. A good copy. First American book edition of the 1839 Sketches, with The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble and The Pantomime of Life added. Thus, first American "complete" edition. Gimbel A13. Wilkins, p. 12.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. Lea & Blanchard, Phila., 1839.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 404 pgs. with 6 leaves of the publisher's adverts bound in at the end of the book. Believed to be the first American issue, but not so stated in the book. This publisher offered,contemporary with this book, a fancier edition having all the Phiz plates, The small Lea and Blanchard 'catalog' is bound in at the end of the volume in 12mo. format. It notes that Lea and Blanchard had available illustrated editions with 'embossed cloth' bindings of 4 Dickens works -- Pickwick, Papers, Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz, and Nickleby, and that "Cheap editions of the last 3 may be had, with 2 plates each." This is that 'cheap' edition. It is dated 1839, and there is a printer credit showing for "T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers, No. 3 Lodge Alley," [London has been omitted] making it likely that the English plates or sheets for the book were modified to be used here. Two preliminary blanks have been removed from this copy, so that the 2 plate pages now open the book. Board surfaces are tan paper, with brown cloth spine, covers have surface scuffing and light stains. Corners are turned in and slightly peeling. Spine label is fully visible, but also scuffed. Text pages are mostly moderately foxed, though some are not. Prints and the title page are nearly free of aging marks. There is a light stain mark 2"x3" on the front cover, and some water mottling outside toward the board edge. One small dark mark on rear board, and 1x3" water-stain at top. Two Phiz. plates precede the title page, no others provided within the book. One leaf showing a prior fold. A rare book, intact in its original binding. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.