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Dickens, Charles. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club: with forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. 609pp. Rebound in red cloth covers, faded and worn. Label inside front endpaper states: 'A genuine but defective copy of the first edition, originally bound up from the 19/20 parts issued 1837/7. Some plates mising, several cleaned. This is the books as the author himself, then a young man of 25, saw it 'in print'.' Directions to the binder and errata pages after the contents. Missing 7 plates are the Frontispiece, Vignette title, Cricket match, Arbour scene, The effect of the salmon, Mr Pickwick in the pound and Coachmen drinking the toast. Pp195/196 also missing. Library repairs to some pages. Some fosing, binding showing between some pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Tuggs of Ramsgate. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tuggs of Ramsgate by Charles Dickens. Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837. viii,[9]-204pp. Recased with original boards. Boards worn, label slightly eroded but quite legible. Foxing through the first 61 pages very light thereafter. Chapman & Hall's monthly fiction periodical "The Library of Fiction" began in April 1836, starting right off in that issue with the sketch "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" by a writer using the pseudonym "Boz." First separate U.S. edition thus, reprinting the second series of SKETCHES (published in February in the U.S appearance, and adding the last from its periodical appearance in the UK. Gimbel asserts that one thousand copies were printed in June. GIMBEL A10. 4 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches. A scarce Dickens item. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-082. Price: $550. Language: eng

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with Forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 609p octavo, First edition bound from the parts with blue printed wrap bound in the rear. Author/Poet Eugene Field's Copy with eritten statement from hisson and from Julia S Field his wife. His son has written " This book comes from yje library of my father, Eugene Field, and was one of his choicest items. Eugene Field 2nd Oct 14 1923" Then it was signed and notarized by Julia Field in 1929. This copy sold at auction in 1937. A very good copy in full calf, old restoration along the gutters, top edge gilt . Old antiquarian bookseller's (Trebizond Rare Books)note circa 1950's laid in.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers. Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 22 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xiv (2) 609pp. Half-title. Handsomely bound in full red leather, gilt lettering to spine.Signed binding "Harry F. Marls."Gilt top foredge. 5 raised bands to spine. Marble endpapers. With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. Infamous forger Eugene Fields, Jr. association copy with "This book comes from the library of my father, Eugene Field - Eugune Field II Oct 20 - 1920". First edition first issue with points described in "Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth" by Walter E. Smith (Part 1: 3) the the suppressed plates by R. W. Buss present opposite pages 69 and 74. . Light scuffing to raised bands. Two closed tears to the half-title page. Small trianglular piece re-attached to the frontispiece which effects the very edge of the image. Housed in a custom red and brown slipcase, which shows some scuffing. Nice copy.

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens: with forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1837.

Price: US$4449.31 + shipping

Description: Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with blind-boardered decoration and gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Includes new endpapers with the prelims foxed. All points collated and confirmed. Provenance; from the library of Edward Saunders with the owner's bookplate.Physical description; 609 pages. Notes; 'Phiz' is a pseudonym for H.K. Browne. With a half-title. Source of acquisition: Purchased and placed on deposit by the Governors of the Baillie's Institution of Glasgow. Subjects; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). English Literature. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens: with forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1837.

Price: US$4804.00 + shipping

Description: Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with blind-boardered decoration and gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Includes new endpapers with the prelims foxed. All points collated and confirmed. Provenance; from the library of Edward Saunders with the owner's bookplate.Physical description; 609 pages. Notes; 'Phiz' is a pseudonym for H.K. Browne. With a half-title. Source of acquisition: Purchased and placed on deposit by the Governors of the Baillie's Institution of Glasgow. Subjects; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). English Literature. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.

Price: US$5543.10 + shipping

Description: Octavo, with the half-title; 43 plates in first state; publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth binding, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. First English edition, first issue, of the great novel, preceded only by the publication in original parts, and the unauthorised Philadelphia printing. This copy has a charming if rather boisterous bibliophile association, having been given to A. Edward Newton by R. B. Adam, who has written on the front free endpaper 'Dear A E N, I do not remember who Pickwick was; but I think you told me he was a relation of yours so this must be yr book. R. B. May 30 1927'. Beneath this he has added 'Sam [Weller] why don't you answer?' Tipped in on the same leaf is a slip of paper in Adam's hand: 'Dr N, I have read a book or 2 but I be d. d if I do not think this is one of the greatest books in the World. R. B.' This first issue of the first edition has the Phiz plates in first impressions. The relevant bibliographical points are:- Page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V line 1 has "ruined wall" in the singular Signature "E" on p. 25 & "X2" on p. 261 P. 10 last line has no mark between "r" & "u" in rum P. 17 the last "e" appears broken Vignette on title has "Veller' . Provenance: W.P. Watson (Edinburgh bookseller, with label); R.B. Adam (leather booklabel, and inscription dated 1927 presenting the copy to:) A. Edward Newton (with his Oak Knoll bookplate); Newton's sale (1940, lot 498): private collection (Australia). Spine and joints worn at head and tail; inner stitching a bit weak. Some occasional browning to plates, but generally good.

Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia

DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, containing a faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz". Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.

Price: US$11086.19 + shipping

Description: Twenty numbers as published, in the original nineteen monthly wrappered octavo parts; forty-three inserted engraved plates, including frontispiece and vignette title-page; original green printed wrappers designed by Seymour; in a custom-made quarter morocco case. A most attractive set of Pickwick in original parts, well-preserved by a series of owners, and in unsophisticated condition. Collation of a Pickwick in parts is famously laborious. There are often multiple varying states or issues of individual components, whether text, engravings, wrappers, or advertisements. Changes were made to engravings as they were reprinted, sometimes because the plates wore out, errors in the text were corrected, and changes to the wrappers were frequent to revise the advertisements that they included. Suffice to say of this set that, as with most, it is made up from different states. What is important is its impeccable original condition, as sold by the Belfast bookseller Hodgson, probably to H.W. Calmount who has boldly signed each part (presumably a Dublin reader, since there is a Calmount Park in Dublin). The exhaustive description by Hatton and Cleaver is recognised as the standard bibliographical analysis: a full collation has been prepared of the present set. In summary: Parts I-XIII are in the later or reprinted wrappers with the others in the primary wrappers. The plates are mostly in their later states (where priority is distinguished) until the tenth part, after which they are a mixture of first and second states. Most texts are in their corrected later state. Four of the seven inserted "address leaves" by the author and publisher are present. (Also present are Calmount's copies of "Illustrations to the Pickwick Club. by Samuel Weller" (E. Gratten, 1837) parts I & II, in the original green wrappers). Nowadays, as it should be, as much attention is paid to the coherence of a set and to be able to show, as with this one, that there has been no sophistication attempted. The set is as issued, as purchased serially by its first owner, and in original condition. --- In the past collectors have been anxious to acquire so-called "prime" sets, composed only of first states or issues of the various components. This was especially the case in the 1930s when enormous premiums were paid. Since only a few hundred copies of the first few parts were published in 1836, and those parts were later reprinted to meet demand as the novel's popularity snowballed after part IV, this is an almost hopeless ambition - at any rate to find a set issued in that form, rather than later merged or made up. Over the years collectors have exchanged parts between sets, often improving individual plates and exchanging earlier states of wrappers for older ones, thus terribly muddying the bibliographical waters. . Provenance: Hodgson, Belfast bookseller (small label on most front wrappers); each front wrapper inscribed at head "H.W. Calmount"; Arnold Greenhill (pictorial bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (emblematic bookplate, sale Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2766, $6,000); private collection (Australia). Some wear to a couple of spines, some stitching a little loose; the first part a little aged; generally in fine original condition.

Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia