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Price: US$256.05 + 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
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.
DICKENS Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress. , 1846.
Price: US$960.65 + 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
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.
Price: US$1601.08 + 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$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$3202.16 + 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
Price: US$20429.78 + 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