Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Bibliophile Society January 1910 Binding: Hardcover in Good condition, many pages remain uncut
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.73 + shipping
Description: This edition is limited to 483 copies printed for members only. Small 4to; original half-vellum, with brown boards; pp. (x) + 90; pages uncut; plates with captioned tissue-guards; facsimiles, incl. folding. Rather foxed throughout. Good only. "At the time of the issue (in 1908) of the volume of the Dickens-Beadnell Correspondence, containing Professor Baker's footnote calling attention to another collection of early Dickens letters that changed hands in Birmingham, England, about ten years ago, it was hardly to be hoped or believed that within a year these letters should be located here in the United States, and in the hands of a generous Bibliophile, who not only expressed an eager willingness to share their contents with his fellow-booklovers, but also offered to edit and arrange them for the press, which he has done in a scholarly and highly entertaining and instructive manner. . It will be remembered that Kolle, in addition to looking after his own interests in wooing a fair member of the Beadnell household, served young Dickens in the capacity of messenger in smuggling his imploring love missives through the parental barriers and into the hands of the coquettish Maria, after Dickens had been debarred from the Beadnell home ."
Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Smith, Harry B., edited by. The Dickens-Kolle Letters. The Bibliophile Society, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. In slipcase. Front slipcase edges lightly rubbed, slipcase title label age-toned. Moderate foxing throughout; covers and contents otherwise clean, no marking or writing. Pages still uncut. Binding sturdy and tight. Numerous tissue-guarded illustrations throughout. 90 pp Edition limited to 483 copies
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/2 vellum and Paper Boards. Limited to 483 copies. Occasional foxing. 90pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, half faux vellum over brown paper covered boards. 90 pages. One of 483 copies printed for Harry Smith by the Bibliophile Society for their membership. Lacks slipcase. Top of several pages roughly opened. Printed on heavy, untrimmed stock, deckle edged. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, solid copy exhibiting light toning to white faux vellum spine. Very good. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardcover in brown cover boards with white spine and corner tips, one of 483 copies printed for members only as stated, 90 pages with rough cut edges, foxing spots to end papers, well preserved inner hinges, encased in a double slipcase with watermark near paper spine label, period gift inscription on lower edge of front fly dated 1938
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles & Harry B. Smith (ed). The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Bibliophile Society, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Vellum spine and tips over brown boards. Slight offsetting from frontis portrait to titlepage, small stain to upper front board, still fine in custom mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: VG One inch damp stain to the top of the spine, moderate foxing throughout. Tissue guards present, tipped in letter present. Deckled edges. one of 483 copies. vellum spine and corners
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 90 pages, many pages uncut, very minor rubbing to board, and apparently a small nicely done repair job along edge between vellum and board, backstrip stained. Excellent illustrations within on heavy art paper which is water stamped Vangelder Holland. No slipcase.
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Harry B. Smith. In a boxed slipcase. Modest wear; a nice copy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper (immitating vellum) over boards. Fine copy in lightly worn publisher's double slip case. which has some chipping at bottom of spine and spotting to labels. Illustrated with engraving and fascimilies of letters. 90 pages.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Foxing. ; Printed for members only. ; B&W Illustrations; 90 pages
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: When a later collection of Dickens letters was published it was recalled that an earlier collection of Dickens letters had changed hands in England about 1900. They turned out to be In New York in the hands of noted bibliophile Harry B. Smith. He graciously offered to edit them and in 1910 483 copies were published for Members of the Harvard Bibliophile Society. Smith received 100 copies for his personal use. This copy is one of the 100 copies. It was inscribed by Smith on the FFE to Karl K. Kitchen, a New York journalist and dated October, 1911. This copy has several rub marks on the front boards where the brown paper is missing. The gold taped spine has a piece of tape missing near the lower edge. Several pp at front have light to moderate foxing but the balance of the volume is clean and the binding remains tight. A scarce volume in any condition. My own search for inspiration from the famous English author involved several trips to the pub in Bloomsbury (London) where Dickens had often written at one of the corner tables. No one was sure which corner so several trips were made in order to cover all the bases.
Seller: Uncle Bill's Books, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: One of 100 copies privately printed for the editor. Engraved title, frontispiece, plates including facsimile of pencil sketch of Dickens. 1 vols. 4to. Original three-quarter parchment and boards. Fine, in original, slightly torn, glassine Engraved title, frontispiece, plates including facsimile of pencil sketch of Dickens. 1 vols. 4to One of 100 copies privately printed for the editor.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$106.77 + shipping
Description: Limitation leaf, facsim. preceding front. Uncut in orig. half vellum. v.g. One of one 483 copies. Letters to Henry Kolle, the city bank who introduced Dickens to Maria Beadnell, with whom he fell fervently in love.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, half faux vellum over brown paper covered boards. 90 pages. One of 483 copies printed for Harry Smith by the Bibliophile Society for their membership. Illustrated with two portraits of Dickens and holograph copies of letters. Printed on heavy, untrimmed Van Gelder stock, deckle edged. Housed in the original double slipcase with printed paper spine label on outer box. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy, near as new. Fine in a near fine box. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Firrst Edition. Limited to 483 copies. Engraved title, frontispiece, plates including facsimile of pencil sketch of Dickens published here for the first time. 90pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bixby's Copy. Bixby had had privately printed in 1898 the "Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell Private Correspondence," the originals of which were in his collection. The Dickens-Kolle letters were in Harry B. Smith's private collection. Henry William Kolle was an early friend of Dickens, and a go-between during ther period of Dickens' infatuation with Maria Beadnell. Original half parchment. Some spotting of binding and text. From the library of the noted collector William K. Bixby with his engraved bookplate Engraved title, frontispiece, plates including facsimile of pencil sketch of Dickens published here for the first time. 90pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown hardcover binidng with cream colored spine and corners square and tight, corners lightly bumped, soiled. Interior is foxed. Clean and tight. Tissue intact between frontispiece illustration of Dickens and title page. 90 ragged-edged pages. There were 483 copies printed for members of The Bibliophile Society; one hundred were printed for Harry Smith for his private distribution. This copy is personally inscribed by Harry Smith on the ffep and dated September 1912. Scarce.
Seller: Deja Vu Books, Poplar Grove, IL, U.S.A.