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Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Description: Lwd.,Bindung gelockert,Titel in Goldprägung, stark berieben, Ecken bestoßen, angeschmutzt, wasserrandig, 497 S. With eight illustrations.
Seller: Antiquariat Klabund Wien, Wien, Austria
Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Price: US$11.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, lacks dustwrapper. Leather decorative boards with five raised bands to spine. Spine is somewhat rubbed and worn but is only lightly faded. Titles to spine are still clear. Clean copy internally with little wear, hinges tight, no loose pages, all eight plates present. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Bleak House Volume II. Chapman and Hall, 1867.
Price: US$16.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1867. Chapman and Hall . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE NO DJ. Ex Library.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 48 pp., blue wrappers detached and chipped.
Seller: Bellcourt Books, Hamilton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: And Wilkie Collins A Good + copy in paper covers as issued. Published Christmas, 1867.
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Chapman & Hall, 1867.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean hardback bound in contemporary tan half leather over green cloth boards, gilt titles at spine, 4 raised bands, leather worn at corners and spine ends, name, place and date on 2nd blank endpaper. viii + 522 pages, frontispiece + 7 plates by Phiz all present, one with tissue guard. Marbled endpapers with 3 small family photos on front and 1 on rear dating from the 1920s
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp: 48. FIRST EDITION. Original blue printed paper wrappers. A good copy with wear along the edges. The string binding is loose. This collaboration between Dickens and Wilkie Collins was presented on stage for Christmas 1867. This copy is the novel released at the same time as the play. It appeared in 'All The Year Round' as the Christmas Number.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 48 pp. Bound in blue wraps. Chipping along the edges of the cover with repair along the fold.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Reading copy only. Considerable wear to boards. Splitting at joints and hinge. Loss of leather and paper to spine ends. Sewn binding intact. Marbled endpapers. FFEP, fly, and half title pages are detached. Spotting on pages up through Table of Contents. Ink stamp on back of fly before LEP.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 497 Seitenc + Preface blauer Halblederband im Oktavformat; gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit 8 Illustrationen und einem Vorwort von Charles Dickens Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1
Seller: ACADEMIA Antiquariat an der Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Price: US$33.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book Condition:A Good copy, bound in the original publishers black cloth, rubbed and chipped top and bottom of the spine. some small marks to boards, page edges gently toned, some spine lean, end papers very gently toned, internally clean and bright, loose binding.
Seller: Bawnmore Fine and Rare Books, Rugby, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 522 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown boards with a few marks, light blanching in small places. Dark brown/maroon leather to hinges, boards' corners and spine which is missing for about the bottom quarter and split to half-way up. Thin gilt lines in cross-band pattern to spine with gilt titles and number. Rubbing to spine-ends & surface of spine taking off top layer of leather in places. Leather covering of spine ripped but could be repaired. Rubbing to small areas of surface and to boards' corners which have heavy wear through to cloth at extremities. Probably rebound, probably not original binding. Some darkening/blotching to end-papers. Ink name dated 1867 to title-page. Page-edges have some age-yellowing & light blotches. Last three pages are detached. A three cm paper-crack to bottom of inner front hinge, binding cracked but holding at page 18 and a bit pulled at illustations at page 224. All 8 B&W plates are present. Would benefit from a complete rebind because at present is only a reading copy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.. Chapman and Hall / London, 1867.
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Description: Halbleineneinband der Zeit, Rücken goldgeprägt, 18 x 12 cm, dreiseitiger Rotschnitt, schwach bestoßen und berieben, Papier altersbedingt gebräunt, handschriftliche Notiz auf dem Vorsatz, stabile und gut erhaltene Bindung, sauberes Exemplar; mit 8 der 1839er-Illustrationen von Hablot Browne. Band aus der Charles Dickens Edition. Nicholas Nickleby ist ein sozialkritischer Gesellschaftsroman von 1839, in dem Charles Dickens Leben und Abenteuer seines Protagonisten Charles Nickelby erzählt. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters, der sich mit Börsengeschäften verspekuliert hat, ist Nickleby gezwungen, sich in die Abhängigkeit von dessen Bruder zu begeben, der ihn dazu bewegt, einen Hilfslehrerposten anzunehmen. Nickleby lernt zunächst die erschreckenden Seiten des englischen Schulsystems der Zeit kennen, bevor er in London Ränke und Intrigen in der mittleren Gesellschaft miterlebt. Auch familiäre Verwicklungen spielen eine wichtige Rolle, jedoch führt alles zu einem glücklichen Ende. Charles Dickens war ein scharfer und kritischer Beobachter des gesellschaftlichen Lebens in England im 19. Jahrhundert, das in sehr starkem Maße klassen- und standesdefiniert war, und in der Industrialisierung für den einfachen Arbeiter meist nur ein Leben am Rande des Existenzminimums ermöglichte. Andere bekannte Werke von Dickens sind Oliver Twist und A Christmas Carol . Stichworte: Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Gesellschaftsroman, England, 19. Jahrhundert 515 S., 8 Abb. Englisch 550g
Seller: Antiquariat an der Linie 3, Darmstadt, Germany
DICKENS, Charles; Collins, Wilkie. No Thoroughfare. Chapman & Hall, London, 1867.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Large Octavo. Original blue printed wrappers over softcover. Very good, wear to edges, curling to foredge, light chippi g to spine ends, darkening to top edge, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.45 + shipping
Description: Volume in 8 piccolo, tela editoriale impressa a secco, titolo al dorso (piccole mende), sguardie, occhiello, antiporta incisa, frontespizio, XII, 497 pp, 7 tavole complessive ft. L'immortale Circolo Pickwick in una piacevole e corretta edizione abbellita dalle esilaranti tavole. Facendo salve le piccole mende alla legatura, in ottima conservazione. Non comune.
Seller: Accademia degli Erranti di Vada Monica, Torino, Italy
Price: US$52.75 + shipping
Description: 13 x 19,5 cm., 325 S. Ganzleinen, goldgepr. Rückentitel. E Sprache: Englisch. inband etwas beschabt, Inhaltsverzeichnis und die ersten Seiten , (bindungsbedingt) mit einer Knickfalte, Kl. Namenszug a.d. Vorsatz, ansonsten gutes Exemplar.
Seller: Antiquariat Tode, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. String sewn, 48 pp. in blue wrappers printed in black (as issued); outer side edges of the front wrap advertise "The Moonstone" by Collins as wll as the "Charles Dickens" edition of Mr. Dickens's Works. . Edges uncut. The wrappers are present but detached and have chipping about the edges. Interior is complete and lightly embrowned otherwise at least VG.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Description: X, 515 S. mit 8 Tafeln nach Phiz. Rotes Leinen mit Goldprägung. Starke Gebrsp. Einband berieben u. fleckig. Kapitale etwas beschädigt. Gelenke u. Buchblock locker. Innen etwas gebräunt. Die "Charles Dickens Edition" (1867-68), deren Bände vom Autor z.T. neue Vorworte und Kolumnentitel erhielten und nochmals durchgesehen und korrigiert wurden, ist die letzte zu Dickens' Lebzeiten erschienene Werkausgabe.
Seller: Antiquariat Kaner & Kaner GbR, Staufen, Germany
Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club.. London: Chapman & Hall., 1867.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo. Quarter Gilt Leather on Marbled Boards, Marbled Edges & End Papers, Good with tears & splittlng along spine; foxing to FFEP & LFEP. 497 pp. Illustrated. Previous owner's signature on page preceding title page & illustrated frontispiece.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Three Quarter Black Leather on Marbled Boards, with Marbled End Papers & Edges of Text Block, Five Raised Bands on Spine with Gilt Titles. Very Good with minor abrasions to boards; edges rubbed. Illustrations. 307 & 391 pp. Dickens composed summary titles at head of every right side page, commenting on the story detailed below.A list of titles of a 15 volume set, of which this is one, is hand inked on FFEP, facing a newspaper clipping.Related Christmas card loosely laid in depicts Westminster Abbey (where Dickens is buried) from the perspective of Old Tothill Street, as featured in Barnaby Rudge. The card has a signed dedication to this volume's previous owner.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles & COLLINS, Wilkie. No thoroughfare. Chapman & Hall, 1867.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1867, being the extra Christmas number of 'All the Year Round'. In original blue paper covers, now worn & fragile; 48pp; bound in pale blue paper-covered boards with paper title label on front board. Pages browned, & a little stained in places Used - Very Good. VG rebound paperback
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.00 + shipping
Description: The last of Dickens's nine extra Christmas numbers of All The Year Round. Dickens wrote only The Overture, Act III, and portions of Acts I and IV. Wilkie Collins, his son-in-law's brother, wrote the rest. Collins wrote the first murder mystery "The Woman in White" in 1860. 8vo, 48pp. Original blue printed wrappers,1st & last 2 pp detached, some sml. stains.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. Chapman and Hall, London, 1867.
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a volume in the first printing of the People's Edition launched by Chapman & Hall from 1865, so first thus. The People's edition is a reprint of the Cheap Edition (published from 1847) and published in monthly parts designed for the railway bookstall. The prefaces, dedications, and lists of contents are omitted, and the frontispieces designed for the Cheap Edition are replaced by engravings from the first editions. The parts were subsequently bound in green paper boards but this volume is bound in half calf over marbled boards. 4¾ x 7¼" 2 vols books bound in one. 1 pp. [4] + 258 with frontispiece "The Marshalsea becomes orphan (Phiz 1856); 2 pp.[4] + 240 with frontispiece "The old church( Phiz as HKB). Boards rubbed, title label missing. Contents firm, clean and bright. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 48 pp. Double columns. 8vo. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens wrote the Overture, portions of the First and Fourth Acts, and the entire Act III. Wilkie Collins wrote the remainder. Podeschi: E20. Eckel p. 168. A very good copy, wrappers lightly worn at fore corners, tiny tear at stitch hole on spine, rear wrapper with small soil spot, contents lightly browned, a few marginal tears, affecting the bottom of the column divider on pp.10-11. Stitched blue printed paper wrappers
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles; COLLINS, Wilkie. No Thoroughfare. Chapman & Hall, London, 1867.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, Christmas 1867. 48 p. 25 cm. Blue paper covers. Edges roughened. Former owner's label attached to first page. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, No Thoroughfare also opened as a stage play in December 1867. The publication of the story in All The Year Round represents an early example of commercial merchandising, promoting the story to those who were aware of the stage play and the play to those who had read the book. Note that the chapters of this book are referred to as "acts".
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Type: Book pp viii, 526. With 40 illustrations by George Cruikshank. ? bound in red Morocco with marbled boards. Shows wear.
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 17 only, From December 19, 1966, to June 22, 1867 (Nom 401-426) 3/4 leather binding.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: 4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$127.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GC.Chapman and Hall,1867.The Charles Dickens Edition.Second edition.Red hardback(gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, a couple of marks,ink marks,dents and nicks on the cover and spine,very small tear on the edges of the spine) in GC, no Dj cover as issued.illustrated with eight b/w plates.Illustrations by Phiz Boz Pickwick.Clean pages but aged and tainted on the outer edges,a couple of marks,ink marks and small creases on the edges of the pages,two small stain marks on the edges of the second page of the book.The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear.545pp.A collectable book.
Seller: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. Chapman and Hall, UK, 1867.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Edition 1867/1869. Two volumes. Illustrated by H K Browne. Came from a set of Dickens library edition but complete in it's own right. Retains the original cloth binding. Rare Thus. Books are very good with quite bright boards. Spine lightened and age toned. Contents good. Light foxing to some pages. Small stain to one title page. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 12479 ##014466
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A new edition, complete, viii, 526pp, 40 black & white illustrations by George Cruikshank, illustrated title page, occasional spotting, offsetting from the illustrations, contemporary half green leather with marbled boards, matching edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate to front free endpaper, binding sound. Apart from the occasional spotting this is A VERY GOOD COPY. Charles Dickens wrote some of his early works under the pen name "Boz" Size: 8.75 X 5.5 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Chapman and Hall of London, 1867.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good. Half leather binding, with ribbed spine with gilt print, marbled end papers. Strong binding, no writing, some wear to spine and minor corner wear. There is heavy foxing to the title page, and moderate foxing to the first ten pages, with the rest of the book having minor spotting. Ships within 24 hours.
Seller: Centurybookstwo, St. Joseph, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: tall8vo, 24cm, first editions, 5volumes in One, 48 & 48 & 48 & 48 & 48pp., all in the original printedblue wraps all with ads., in contemporary pebble dark green cloth, giltbook titles on the spine, extra stock flora decorated endpapers, lightdamp stain toward the fore edge of both boards, internally fine. (LT) Podeschi. E9-E21., also cf. H504-H507.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New Edition, Complete. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, boards showing on top corners, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, small rips with edges fraying, small rip o edge of spine join with back cover 1cm, spine faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, some light foxing on edges and plates. 526pp
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. NO THOROUGHFARE. , 1867.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Being The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round. London: Chapman & Hall, Christmas 1867. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being the last of Dickens's nine extra Christmas numbers of his periodical All The Year Round. Dickens himself wrote The Overture, Act III, and portions of Acts I and IV; his son-in-law's brother, Wilkie Collins, wrote the rest. This is a near-fine copy (some wear along the fore-edge of the rear wrapper). Podeschi (Yale) E20; Eckel p. 196.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 526 pp. Very Good, Half Calf on Burgundy Cloth with sun-fading, minor stains, edge wear, & rubbing on boards; foxing throughout; some tearing along gutters of marbled end papers; minor shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; bookplate of previous owner on FFEP. Illustrations. Engraved title page and fronstipiece.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles;. The Charles Dickens Edition. Chapman and Hall 1867-69, London, 1867.
Price: US$429.79 + shipping
Description: Reihe: The Charles Dickens Edition Untergebiet: Literatur Abbildungen: Each volume with eight or four Illustrations by Phiz. Zustand: In red half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Some foxing. Format: 8°. Einband: Hldr. Gebiet: Englisch
Seller: Antiquariat Narrenschiff, Trin, Switzerland
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 526 pages of text. Full dark green leather binding is rubbed at the extremities, with minor shelfwear and darkening, with both hinges expertly repaired; intact and attractive. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece entitled "The Election for Beadle"; engraved title vignette; title; blank verso; advertisement dated London May 15 1839; blank verso; Contents vii-viii. Ilustrated by 38 engraved plates as well as the frontispiece and title vignette. A few spots of staining to several pages. Two pages with browning from old newpaper clipping. As many as six plates are moderately to heavily browned, especially to the page edges, and a few plates are affected by offsetting. An early edition, not a first edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Half calf spine with extensive blind tooling and label on 2, with contemporary holographic brown cloth. Gilt rules on calf edges. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges marbled. , Charles Dickens (1812?1870) was a renown English writer and social critic of the Victorian Era. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator. , Size : 8vo.(206x133mm). , With double frontispiece. A good example of these short pieces by Dickens. Interior very good.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens (Charles).. Works. Chapman and Hall, 1867-1869 and no date, 1867.
Price: US$606.07 + shipping
Description: Frontispieces, plates Eleven volumes Very nice copies; armorial bookplate of Geo. Lucas Esq. Comprises Our Mutual Friend; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Pickwick Papers; Old Curiosity Shop; Little Dorritt; Nicholas Nickleby; Bleak House; Sketches by Boz and Christmas Books; American Notes and Reprinted Pieces and The Uncommercial Traveller; A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist. Green half calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt and with red leather label lettered in gilt, silk bookmarks
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$705.47 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Sewn as issued in orig. buff wrappers; spine a little fragile, a little dusted. Booklabel of the Dickensian B.W. Matz. Gimbel B296. BL only on Copac. 'A great author certainly never had any more magnificent demonstration than that which was accorded to Charles Dickens through the farewell banquet given in his honour at Freemason's Hall on. the 2nd of November, 1867. The mere catalogue of the names of the stewards was in itself a noble tribute to the fame, the genius, and the popularity of Charles Dickens.' Among the 120 or so distinguished guests were Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, John Forster, Charles Landseer, William Gladstone, Alfred Tennyson, and the Duke of Argyll.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. "New Edition", Complete (in one volume). 8vo. Brown cloth binding, 526 pp. Published in 1867 as part of the "Charles Dickens Edition" or "Original Edition" set, Bleak House is in its original fine brown sandcloth (also called "diapercloth") binding, with a blindstamped rule around the edges. "SKETCHES BY BOZ." (short swollen rule), "CHARLES DICKENS." (all caps), "ILLUSTRATED", ORIGINAL EDITION" (all caps) appear on the spine in gilt. Original chocolate brown endpapers. 9" tall x 5.5" wide. Blank endpaper. Half title. Engraved frontispiece entitled "The Election for Beadle", protective tissue, engraved title vignette, title, blank verso. Advertisement dated London, May 15, 1839, blank verso. Contents (vii-viii), "Seven Sketches from Our Parish" title. 526 pp., blank endpaper, colored endpaper. 38 engraved plates, plus frontispiece and vignette, 40 illustrations in total. Dickens re-edited his works for this edition with the intention of developing an authoritative version of his works. When Oxford University Press decided to print a set of Dickens' works, this was the edition that was chosen. Light scuffing, bright and solid textblock, all tissue guards and illustrations present. In exceptional, near fine condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: The first appearance of The Moonstone, serialised in All the Year Round between December 1867 and August 1868. Also bound in are the two Extra Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round for 1866 and 1867 which include Charles Dickens' Mugby Junction and Wilkie Collins' and Dickens' collaboration No Thoroughfare. 8vo., 2 volumes bound in one. Sometime bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. With the bookplates of E Hubert Litchfield, Florence & Edward Kaye and Lawrence Solomon. A very good copy. A Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone, T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone the first and best modern detective story. Mugby Junction is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere," who has spent his life cloistered in the firm Barbox Brothers & Co., makes use of his new-found freedom in retirement to explore the rail lines that connect with Mugby Junction. Dickens's collaborators each contributed an individual story to the collection. Mugby Junction includes the famous ghost story The Signal-Man. The novel No Thoroughfare was first published in 1867, in the Christmas number of Dickens's periodical All the Year Round. There are thematic parallels with other books from Dickens's mature writings, including Little Dorrit (1857) and especially Our Mutual Friend (1865).
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, seven numbers, all with their original self wrappers or blue printed wrappers, sewn, as issued. First editions. Seven of the nine issues -- those for 1859; 1862-1867 -- of ALL THE YEAR ROUND (1859-1867). The issues present include THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1859), SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE (1862), MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS (1863), MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY (1864), DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS (1965), MUGBY JUNCTION (1866), and NO THOROUGHFARE (1867). Dickens and Wilkie Collins were the major contributors to these issues. Others include Amelia B. Edwards and Jane Gaskell. For aficionados of the ghost story the highlight here is the first appearance in print of Dickens's classic "No. 1 Branch Line, The Signalman," which is part of the "Mugby Junction" cycle written by Dickens, Andrew Halliday, Charles Collins, Hesba Stretton and Amelia B. Edwards. Also present is "The Haunted House" (1859), a collaborative work by various authors, including Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Gaskell, combined with material by Dickens to create a supernatural story. The Dickens contributions to this work are the chapters "The Mortals in the House" and "The Ghost in Master B.'s Room." Wilkie Collins' story, "The Ghost in the Cupboard Room," is the original version of his classic non-supernatural nautical suspense story which Collins revised and published in 1873 as "Blow Up With the Brig." Bound with the original wrappers (when so issued) in calf-backed cloth, front cover detached. The advertising matter is present in the 1864 issue, including the OUR MUTUAL FRIEND slip. The issues for 1859 and 1862 are very good, 1863, 1864 and 1865 are fine, 1866 has a 40 mm horizontal closed tear in the fore-edge of the rear wrapper, but is otherwise fine, 1867 has a tiny spot on the front wrapper and a tiny hole in the rear wrapper, but is otherwise fine. A gathering of superior copies. Although large editions were printed, the Christmas numbers rarely survive in such admirable state. (#164477)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, eighteen numbers, all with their original self wrappers or blue printed wrappers, sewn, as issued. First editions. The complete set comprises the nine issues from HOUSEHOLD WORDS (1850-1858) and the nine issues from ALL THE YEAR ROUND (1859-1867). The major contributors were Dickens and Collins. The highlight here for aficionados of the ghost story is the first appearance in print of Dickens's classic "No. 1 Branch Line, The Signalman." For lists of titles and contributors see Wolff 1812c-1812t and 7687b. Some light wear and chipping, a few spines split or splitting, a few repairs; overall very good or better. All numbers housed together in a custom green straight-grain morocco solander box (worn at edges, pull-off lid cracked). From the library of Jean Hersholt, with bookplate on added paper wrapper and small label on the case. Hersholt's library was sold at auction by Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc. in 1954. A superior set. Although large editions were printed, the Christmas numbers rarely survive in such admirable state. (#160996)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.