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dickens, charles. the cricket of the hearth. bradbury and evans, 1846.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, second state with "New Edition Oliver Twist" ad in rear. In stamped brown cloth boards with couple small smudges. Light wear to corners. Front hinge starting to crack. Bookplate to front pastedwon.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 174 pp. Illustrated from engravings, including frontispiece and added engraved title page. 12mo, old half green morocco; elaborately gilt spine; marbled sides; a.e.g. First edition. 1/16" chip at the bottom of the spine with 1" split to the lower joints front and rear; still, tight and sound and generally attractive
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 175, [2] p. 17 cm. Frontispiece engraving, engraved title page, and 11 other engraved illustrations. Burgundy cloth with gold and blank impressing. All edges gilt. 2 p. of ads at rear for Dickens' works. A little soiling to exterior. Corners a little worn. Tape repairs to hinges. A novella by Charles Dickens, the fourth of his five "Christmas Books," coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle, the battle being a metaphor for the struggles of life. A relatively unknown Dickens work, unlike the wildly popular A Christmas Carol.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This copy has the ad. leaf in the second and usual state, with ?No. I. of? on a line by itself. 1st Edition. 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Half black calf with black boards. Edgewear, splits in the gutters on the front hinge. Library plate on the front pastedown (nobody borrowed it) Pencil insc. on ffep. dated 1899. Signs of pencil erasings on the two blanks following the half-title.Rear hinge cracked but holding very well. Age-toning to the end-papers.Contents clean and tight with a little toning to the page edges. Small spot of old red sealing wax on rear cover. 174pp. plus 2pp. pub. ads. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life A Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. Pp. (8), 175, followed by 2 pp. of publisher offerings. Lavish frontis. and title page. Illustrated with engravings by Maclise (two plates) and three each by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and Clarkson Stanfield. Bound in blindstamped ribbed red cloth with bright gilt illustration and lettering stamped on front cover; gilt lettering and design on spine. AEG. Corners bumped, with lower corners slightly worn-through. A bright copy. An attractive copy in original state. Written under duress and published the same year as "The Cricket on the Hearth," the literary quality of this effort hasn't held up. While an immediate commercial success, with 23,000 copies immediately sold, the stature in Dickens' Christmas books is trifling. ECKEL, p. 121.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bradbury and Evans. London. 1846. 174 pages. A fine contemporary replica of the first printing in red leather with marbled endpapers. Titles and design stamped in gilt; and gilt page edges. This book is the same size and design as Dickens' Chrstmas Carol, only Christmas Carol is issued in green leather versus red. A beautiful, crisp copy of the quality made replica first edition, first printing.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.91 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2nd state ( with three lines instead of two on the Oliver Twist advertisement at end). Engraved frontispiece and extra pictorial title and illustrations. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches), pages: 174:(2, advertisements). Original red cloth blocked in blind and pictorially in gilt. Headbands chipped, ragged 1 1/2 inch tear at head of upper joint, upper joint rubbed with a few narrow small punctures, corners rubbed.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy (first edition).. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state with "Twentieth Edition." noted in ad at rear for Cricket on the Hearth. Pp. 270, (2) ads, woodcut ill. on title page, others in text, 12mo, original green blindstamped cloth, gilt titles. Contents mostly VG with original hinges, clean leaves, no owner's inscriptions. Title page has a one-inch square cut from the upper corner. Rear hing cracking a bit but firm. The cloth bumped and worn through a bit at the tips but very bright and clean. Cloth and titles not faded. About 1/8 loss due to wear at head and tail of backstrip, few small chips to green covering along rear joint. Quite an attractive copy overall, priced well with respect to condition.
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles. The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.36 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st state, with advertisement page at rear with 2 italicised lines stating "On the First of January will be published. etc.". Red cloth with gilt; all page edges gilt. Owner's name on front pastedown; a few spots of foxing; board edges a little worn, with slight dent in bottom edge of front board; spine damages, with fraying at head; split in cloth on back joint, & 3cm loss at foot; gilt vignette on front board a little worn. Used - Acceptable. fair hardback in red cloth; aeg
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Has some tape on places outside the binding but is in nice condition internally with only some small foxing. Illustrations in great condition. Original binding is more sought and this is a very early edition from the same year 1846.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth : Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated December 1845. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. New -end-papers and finely restored re-backed spine. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Description: 174, [ii ads]pp. Second state with ' 'New Edition of Oliver Twist'. 14 engraved illustrations including a frontispiece and title-page. The engraved frontispiece and additional title by John Thompson and G. Dalziel after Daniel Maclise. Wood-engraved illustrations by G. and E. Dalziel, Thomas Williams, John Thompson, J. Swain and Groves after Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer. Dedication page dated December 1845. Finely illustrated frontis. and title-page. Fine original cloth with the 'fireplace' gilt dec. to the front board. Red vertical ribbed cloth. Owner's name in heavy ink dated May 3rd 1846 to the inside front board. [ The book was first sold in December 1845 with a 1846 date] IN ORIGINAL STATE WITH A TENDER SPINE AS OFTEN, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Size: small 12mo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. Original endpapers present. Pp [viii], 270, plus ad leaf to rear. Label sometime removed from front board, leaving a faint trace, light splash marks to rear board. Early ownership signature in pencil to flyleaf recto. Collated complete and correct. On Page 1, Reader s Passport is in Gothic type, Cricket in the Hearth is advertised as twentieth edition at 5s on final ad leaf, page 5 and 270 are unnumbered. A good example of Dickens only book of travel (see photos).
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book. Second state with two pages of ads and promotion of "New Edition of Oliver Twist." Red ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustrations on front panel and spine; blind-stamped decorative borders on front and back panels. All external page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled, edges and spine are sunned. Spine folds are rubbed, upper and lower edges at head and tail of board spine are split. External outermost upper and lower edges of board panels are scuffed and rubbed through in several places including fore-edge corner tips. Age-toning with small stains and light smudges to text pages. Text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, with uncommon first state of the advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist beginning "On the First of January.". 12mo (17cm). Rebound in early twentieth-century half leather, gilt decoration and title on spine, cloth-covered boards, with original cloth from front board and spine bound in at rear; marbled endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; [8], [1]-174, [2] pp; frontispiece, vignette title page, and 12 illustrations in the text. Clean and sturdy, with some wear to top edges of boards and ad leaf at rear partially detached: a Very Good copy. One of Dickens' three Christmas books, complete with half-title, ad leaf, and all 14 illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer, with some but not all of the internal flaws listed in Smith. Though the title page states 1846, this book was actually first published in late December 1845. ECKEL p.119-20. YALE/GIMBEL A92. SMITH II (Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth) pp. 37-43.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, First edition, 2nd issue, 1846. Hardcover, with cocked spine, and general wear to cloth cover, with rubbing to cloth and bent corners. The spine has split to cloth and repaired. Gilt edges and gilt fireplace illustration the front cover. Author's dedication to Lord Jeffery dated December 1845. "New Edition of Oliver Twist" on the advertisement page in the back of the book. The 175 pages of contents are clean and clear. slight cracking inside front cover with endpapers. Various illustrators as: Leech, Doyle, Landseer, Standfield,and Maclise.
Seller: Pandora's Books, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket On The Hearth, A Fairy Tale Of home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$436.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, Bound in the original gilt decorated cloth, Double frontis plates, Half title present, Two leaf advert page to rear, 174pp, Front hinge cocked slightly forward, Some wear at top & bottom of spine, Few minor chips to cloth at rear outer hinge but with both boards firmly attached, Few minor marks to rear board, Corners bumped, Small name to fep, Very occ light foxing, Occ faint crease to corner margins., Overall a good-very good copy. Overseas orders may require extra postage costs
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life, a Love Story. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of Charles Dickens' lesser known 'Christmas Books', a heart-warming love story. The fourth issue of the first edition. The first edition, fourth issue of this work, with the vignette showing an angel holding a banner with no publisher's information.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and in-text engravings.'The Battle of Life' is the fourth of Dickens' spirited 'Christmas Books', set in an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle.A romantic novel, this is the only Christmas book that doesn't have any supernatural or explicitly religious elements.Charles Dickens is one of the most popular authors of the Victorian age. His novels show the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England, showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive characters.In the original publisher's cloth binding.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored, though missing the bottom half of the original spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little discolouration and marking to the boards and spine. Front hinge is weak. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with a few odd spots. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$461.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The fourth state of the first edition of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale, with charming illustrations. The first edition, fourth state of this work, with the engraved title page showing an angel holding a banner, with no publisher's information.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and in-text engravings.'The Battle of Life' is the fourth of Dickens' spirited 'Christmas Books', set in an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle.A romantic novel, this is the only Christmas book that doesn't have any supernatural or explicitly religious elements.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, retaining the original half title.With a former owner's inscription to the recto of the frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Head of front joint starting, with board holding firm. Rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Inscription to recto of title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned to perimeters, with light handling marks throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$489.76 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing. (8), 174, (2) pp. + 1 engraved frontispiece and 1 engraved title-leaf. Illustrated. Publisher's decorated and blindstamped red cloth with gilt edges. Boards with some faint, trifle soiling. Spine just slightly slanted, spine ends and corners just slightly bumped, the cloth of the front joint with ca 2 cm tear, binding still firm. A couple of pages with some slight foxing, interior else fine. A well-kept copy of what supposedly is the second printing of Dickens' third Christmas book. With the advertisement at the rear announcing a "New edition of Oliver Twist", followed by three lines in italics. Supposedly the second printing of the first edition of Dickens' third Christmas book.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$494.06 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; sl. cocked, spine dulled & a little chipped at head & tail. a.e.g. Contemp. signature of Mrs Danby on leading f.e.p. Smith II, 6; second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. , 1846.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint. In our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright copy, perhaps near-fine, with the usual minor wear at the spine ends; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked. Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life, a love story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1846 1ed Charles Dickens Battle of Life Christmas Romance Maclise Illustrated There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol The Battle of Life is one of Charles Dickens famous Christmas Books . First published in 1846, this short novel was published following Cricket on the Hearth and follows the culture in an English village near the site of an historic battle. Dickens describes the struggles of life as a battle; though strangely, Dickens does not include any sort of supernatural or religious themes in this book a style that differs from that of each of the other Christmas Books . Item number: #19930 Price: $550 DICKENS, Charles The Battle of Life, a love story London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o [6], 175, [3] o 13 illustrations Provenance: Handwritten N. Yorke Language: English Note on edition: o Includes ads at end Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Decorative red cloth Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 19930 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. , 1846.
Price: US$606.35 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. This copy has the ad leaf in the second and usual state, with ?No. I. of? on a line by itself. A handsome unworn copy, with a few tiny ink stains on the front cover, and a large and ungainly bookplate, the offence of which is doubled by matching glue residue on the lower paste-down suggesting that it had originally been placed there. Podeschi A92. In a marbled paper and red morocco folding case.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. Bradbury & Evans, Fleet Street, 1846.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red covers with slightly faded gilt titles and vignette to front. Corners bumped. Gilt titles to spine.All edges gilt. Internally exceptionally clean with double illustrated title page as new.Dedication page has a postage stamp' 1p centenary testimonial 1812-1912. A Tribute to Genius with portrait of Dickens.' All pages clean and bright with no foxing. 174pp with the two pages of ads.the first for Oliver Twist.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper, "Kay Gittings 1947", i.e. Katherine Edith Gittings, née Campbell, the first wife of writer Robert Gittings. Dearer inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. A travelogue of Italy, where Dickens toured for some months with his family in 1844. Elements of this book were first published in 'The Daily News' under the title 'Travelling Sketches - Written on the Road'; the remainder was composed specially for this bookform edition.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: A Christmas Carol. The Cricket on the Hearth. The Battle of Life; A Love Story. Bound together in a single volume. A Christmas Carol. 166 pages. Lacking title page - The first page present is the colored plate 'Scrooge's Third Visitor.' Followed by the preface, table of contents, and then the first page of the tale. 166 pages. The original ads from the end, if there were any, are gone. Contains 3 hand-colored plates by Leech and 4 black and white illustrations in the text. The plates are, Scrooge s third Visitor, Marley s Ghost, and The Last of the Spirits. Binding is broken. Pages 1-18 are detached from the text block (but attached to each other). Page 19-30 make up another disbound group. Page 31-32 is detached. Pages 33-48 are another disbound signature. All the rest is attached to the large textblock that contains the rest of this story and all of the other two. Without a title page or the advertisements, it is hard to determine exactly which printing this is. The publisher s name, Bradbury and Evans, is printed at the bottom of the final page. Chapman & Hall printed the first printings of the book, so the Bradbury & Evans slug suggests that this is printed after May 1844. A note on the publication history: A Christmas Carol was first printed on Dec 19, 1843 in an edition of 6,000 copies. It was reprinted on January 6, 1844. It was printed 5 more times by the end of May of that year. In June of 1844, Dickens moved from Chapman & Hall to Bradbury & Evans. Bradbury & Evans printed A Christmas Carol in 1846 (presumably from the same plates as the earlier Chapman & Hall editions). Considering that the other Christmas books in this volume are 1846 Bradbury & Evans publications, the best guess is that this is the 1846 printing. That would make it an eleventh printing. Bound with: The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1846. First Edition. Engraved title page and vignette. 174 pages. 12 illustrations in the text by Doyle, Leech, Maclise and Stanfield. Previous owners name on the title page Marianne Thesiger. Bound with: The Battle of Life; A Love Story. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1846. First Edition. Engraved title page and vignette. 175 pages. Final page is detached from the text block and still attached to marbled endpaper. All illustrations present. All three books bound together in a single volume. Green leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards and matching endpapers. Spine strip missing and text block broken into several pieces, as detailed above. Both boards detached but present. 4.75 x 6.5 . Large bookplate on inside front cover Cecil Woods Vest. I have not been able to find any information on him. There is a detached blank page tucked inside the book with the name, Charles W Thesiger, 6 th Dragoons written on it. It s not clear if this is a blank page from one of these volumes or if it s from another book. As noted above, the name Marianne Thesiger is written on the title page of The Cricket on the Hearth. The Thesiger name is a prominent one and it adds interesting provenance to this book. Marianna Thesiger was married to Frederic Thesiger, the Baron of Chelmsford & Lord Chancellor of England (1858-1859). Her second son was Charles Wemyss Thesiger (he of the sixth Dragoons). Charles W. Thesiger was Aide-de-Campe to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, fought in the China War in 1860 and also in the Curragh Brigade. He commanded the Inniskillings (the Sixth Dragoons) from 1868-1878, and was then promoted to the Inspector of Yeomanry Cavalry. He was promoted to Major-General in 1884, became Inspector General of Cavalry in Ireland the next year, and was finally promoted to Lieutenant General in 1891. He died in 1903. It s wonderful to be able to place the book with its original owners & always s delight to discover such a complete biography of those owners on the incredible online resources available to us these days. A wonder
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: The 1846 1st edition, 2nd state (including "New Edition of Oliver Twist", followed by 3 lines in italics, at the rear). Well-preserved and VG in its red cloth, with bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and bright, decorative gilt-flourishes and lettering along the spine. Very light soiling at the panels and mild darkening to the spine. Internally very clean, with the lightest soiling at the endapers and the slightest hint of limited spotting. 16mo, 174 pgs., all edges gilt. The book is wrapped in a custom-made linen dustjacket (with leather spine labels) and, beyond that, is housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Lon. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: In original blue-green blindstamped cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. First Edition. Vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. With Gothic lettering on p. 1 title: "The Reader's Passport" and with ads for Mr. Dickens's Works on pp. 371 and 372. The Cricket on the Hearth is advertised at "Twentieth Edition. In Foolscap 8vo, price 5s." in last line on p. 271. VG- in original blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine and blindstamped designs on front and rear boards. A tight, solid, clean copy with front hinge expertly repaired and rear hinge going. Slight spine slant with heavy chipping to the top of the spine. Overall, a handsome copy of the first edition. Scarce in the original cloth. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$771.45 + shipping
Description: Kl.-8°. 4 Bl., 174 S., 2 S. Anz. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz, gestoch. Vortitel und 12 Textillustrationen von Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Standfield, John Leech und Edwin Landseer. Originalleinen mit Gold- und Blindprägung und Ganzgoldschnitt. Erstausgabe. - Zweite Variante der Anzeigenseite mit der Überschrift "New Edition of Oliver Twist". - (Rücken fachgerecht restauriert. Einband fleckig und etwas berieben). Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$818.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red horizontal-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine a little dulled & with small chip at head. Signature of Anne Probert, Dec. 1845, on half title. a.e.g. A nice bright copy. Smith II 6. Second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr including frontis and extra title, 6.5 x 4.25, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, binding by Bayntun-Riviere (though not identified as such), 174 pp with two pp of ads in back, covers lightly rubbed, hinges loose, pp toned and with scattered finger soil, else a nice copy with original red cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. FIRST ED, Second State, with all points in Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography (but with three-line notice for "Oliver Twist" on rear ad). Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. , 1846.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint; in our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright, near-fine copy, with very little wear; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked (the front paste-down bears the bookplate of the late Chicago professor Thomas S. Moch, and a small corner of the rear paste-down is chipped). Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, the original cloth covers backed and cornered in red morocco, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands and gilt ruled and decorated compartments, lettered in gilt in two compartments. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A fine clean copy, the binding well preserved. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 12mo. An unrecorded binding, bound in plain red pebbled cloth, speckled edges. Half-title, bound without engraved title, frontispiece or advertisement, ink name to title and front fly-leaf, pale plain endpapers. An unusual, scarce nd uncited variant binding.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Cricket on the Hearth.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1058.69 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, front., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf in second state. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt. a.e.g. v.g. Smith II, 6; second state of the advertisement leaf, with the italic headline re-set to occupy three lines rather than two.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.. London Bradbury and Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$1265.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, handsomely bound in full dark green crushed levant morocco by the French binder S. David showing the refinement and delicacy associated with the best traditional bindings of the ages. The spine with raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, fine French marbled endleaves, binding edges gilt tooled, the turnovers with gilt roll tooling at the borders surrounding triple gilt fillet rules surrounding another roll tooled inner border gilt, all edges gilt, the original cloth covers bound in at the front and rear. [viii], 174, [2] ads. pp. A very fine copy, tight, clean and beautifully preserved, the spine panel mellowed to honey-green as is normal. FIRST EDITION. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens idea to begin a weekly periodical named "The Cricket" with an added motto, "A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth." Dickens relinquished that idea to instead concentrate on the venture that resulted in the founding of the "The Daily News." The original periodical idea manifested itself in his "Household Words." 'THE CRICKET' was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Half title, front., engr. title & illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield & Leech, final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine dulled & a little chipped at head & tail. Contemp. ownership inscription, 'Martineau, Highfield Road' on leading f.ep. a.e.g. Smith II, 6; with the first state of the advertisement leaf showing the italic heading over two lines rather than three. This first state is much scarcer than the second; Smith comments, 'I have found the second state of the advertisement in all but a few copies of the first edition that I reviewed'. First published on 20th December 1845. From the Martineau family library, Highfield Road, Birmingham.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, and unusual thus - Smith notes he has only seen a few copies in this state. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December 1845, the title page postdated 1846. It proved very popular - Dickens's friend Forster recorded that it doubled the circulation of its predecessors. That is since recognized as an exaggeration, but it nonetheless quickly underwent two editions, and by January there were 17 stage adaptations in progress (Schlicke, p. 128). The first state has the advertisement for Oliver Twist opening in two italic lines, the second state has the notice expanded to three. Smith, II, 6; Eckel, pp. 119-20. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2011. Octavo. Original red cloth, lettering and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Engraved frontispiece and title page, 12 illustrations in the text. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of G. Mann of Cornhill to front pastedown, and bookplate of Emanuel Boutcher (1824-1888) of Grateley House in Hampshire. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Very minimal sunning to spine and trivial splits at joint ends, ever so slightly shaken. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Cricket on the Hearth, The. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: "To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!" DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, with first state of "Oliver Twist" advertisement. Foolscap octavo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 102 mm.). [iv], 174, [2, advertisements] pp. Additional engraved frontispiece and pictorial title (by Maclise) with original tissue guard. Illustrated throughout in the text. Handsomely bound ca. 1880 by Samuel Tout (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free endpaper). Full blue crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively ruled and bordered in gilt, spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, light brown patterned imitation silk liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. A very fine example. "Although the titlepage is postdated 1846, The Cricket on the Hearth was published on December 20, 1845." (Smith). "Of the 14 illustrations in this Christmas book, seven were designed by John Leech; three by Richard Doyle; one by Clarkson Stanfield; two by Daniel Maclise; and one by Edwin Landseer." (Smith, p. 42). John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. Victorian binder Samuel Tout worked out of Nassau Street in Soho, London 1868-79. He then partnered with William Coward in a bindery in Whitechapel but in 1880 continued on his own in the same location. Smith II, 6.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Half title, front., engr. title & illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield & Leech, final ad. leaf. Orig. red vertical-grained cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt. Contemp. signature of Harriet Simpson, & booklabel of Rev. Charles Upwood Manning; bookseller's ticket: J. Robinson, Market Hill. a.e.g. A v.g. bright copy. Smith II, 6; with the first state of the advertisement leaf showing the italic heading over two lines rather than three. This first state is much scarcer than the second; Smith comments, 'I have found the second state of the advertisement in all but a few copies of the first edition that I reviewed'. First published on 20th December 1845.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens (Charles).. The Cricket on the Hearth. A fairy tale of home. Bradbury and Evans,, 1846.
Price: US$2694.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Etched additional title and frontispiece, illustrations Small 8vo A few small marks to spine, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy Original red blindstamped cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom