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Charles Dickens. Christmas Books. Chapman And Hall, 1868.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An early edition of Dickens' collected Christmas Stories, including 8 original black and white illustrated plates from John Leech and others. The Stories include: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.Near Fine Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebound, suspected remainder binding. Binding and hinges are firm. Contents page is slightly loose. Pages and plates are clean with minimal tanning. Boards are clean with minimal edge-wear, light crushing to spine ends and bumping to corners.

Seller: Hewett's Books, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles; With Original Illustrations. THE PICKWICK PAPERS (Two Volumes Complete). Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1868.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: CHARLES DICKENS’S WORKS (Illustrated) LIBRARY EDITION Vol. I THE PICKWICK PAPERS (in Two Volumes Complete), by Charles Dickens; With ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS- 1868- Ticknor and Fields, Boston- ORIGINAL 1868 EDITION (with same 1868 date on title page)- These are NOT an ex-library books and they are NOT reprint editions- BINDINGS are ORIGINAL decorative blind-stamped dark green cloth HARDCOVERS with titles in GOLD on spine (ALL GOLD is present and with LUSTER); bindings and texts are in the same generally neat, clean and solid, VG with NO extraneous writings (only neat, previous owner VINTAGE BOOKPLATE front free page). Just light wear and normal ‘age-coloration’. Overall, nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPIES of VOLUME I (of the 30 volume ‘Library Edition’) the UNCOMMON ‘Ticknor and Fields’ 1868 ’LIBRARY EDITION’ of CHARLES DICKENS’S WORKS (includes a second, FACSIMILE ‘London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly’ TITLE PAGE with ILLUSTRATED FRONTISPIECE) which includes the 1867 CHARLES DICKENS EXPOSITORY on the COPYRIGHT PAGE: ‘By a SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT made with ME and my ENGLISH PUBLISHERS, (partners with me in the copyright of my works,) Messrs. TICKNOR and FIELDS, of BOSTON, have become the ONLY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES in AMERICA of the WHOLE SERIES of my books CHARLES DICKENS; London, April, 1867’ VOLUME I, 408 pages VOLUME II, 419 pages includes ALL ILLUSTRATIONS with tissue guarded FRONTISPIECES with DARK BROWN END-PAPERS The CROWDS that greeted CHARLES DICKENS in BOSTON on Nov. 19, 1867 suggested the city was ready for a message of CHRISTMAS HOPE and CHEER. His American publishers, WILLIAM TICKNOR and JAMES FIELDS, persuaded him to return for a two-year READING TOUR of a ‘CHRISTMAS CAROL’ and other stories CHARLES DICKENS made BOSTON his home away from home during his stay in America ’Mr. DICKENS always regarded BOSTON as his AMERICAN HOME,’ wrote George Dolby, his agent. ‘All his LITERARY FRIENDS lived there ’ Publisher, JAMES FIELDS, greeted the author and whisked him in a carriage to the PARKER HOUSE, where a crowd gave him an ovation. CURIOSITY SEEKERS peeked at him through the half-open dining room door as he ate ’ VOLUME I, 408 pages VOLUME II, 419 pages includes ALL ILLUSTRATIONS with tissue guarded FRONTISPIECES with DARK BROWN END-PAPERS BK18122129

Seller: The Maine Bookhouse, Oxford, ME, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. The Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round. Chapman and Hall [1868], London, 1868.

Price: US$422.35 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The collected edition of the Christmas Numbers from Dickens's periodical 'All the Year Round,' from 1859 to 1867. Containing nine Christmas numbers from Charles Dickens's weekly literary magazine 'All the Year Round' from 1859 to 1867. The collected edition with uniform title page, containing numbers: 'The Haunted House,' 'A Message from the sea,' 'Tom Tiddler's Ground', 'Somebody's Luggage,' 'Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings,' Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy,' 'Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions', 'Mugby Junction,' and 'No Thoroughfare' by Charles Dickens. In the original publisher's full cloth binding, gilt to edges. Externally smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting affecting first few leaves, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. Christmas Books, A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall, UK, 1868.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New Edition Dated 1868. Part of the Charles Dickens Edition. Bound in the Original Cloth. Rare Thus. Eight illustrations per novel. Novels complete in their own right. Includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and Sketches by Boz. Book is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages lightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17841

Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom