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Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first appearance of the Cheap Edition of 1848. The true first appeared as part of Master Humphrey's Clock in 1840-41. The Cheap Edition of Barnaby Rudge, bound in afer, is from 1849. This book is in contemporary half leather, rubbed and worn, with marbled pages edges, webbing showing. Cattermole illustrations all present, with some rubbing, and one leaf loose but present. An ideal candidate for a rebind.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Foolscap8vo, guarded engraved frontis of a lady in a church, vii, 344 p. Contemporary polished black half-calf, marbled boards, gilt on dark red lettering piece, all edges marbled. Light tanning of the endpapers, slight rubbing of marbled paper, small ink blots on two pages, paper cracked on hinges, staining to edge of frontis, small splits to the top 7mm of the joints otherwise a VG- copy with the binder's ticket of Lamont, Donegall Place, Belfast on the front pastedown. Bindings by Lamont are scarce.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a VG 1848 edition in 3/4 brown leather, 5 compartment spine with gold stamping, marbled boards. This is a first Cheap edition with a new preface dated Sept. 1848 in a bespoke leather binding neatly executed at the Depository, 23 Essex Quay Dublin.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. Chapman & Hall, 1848.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Description: Early edition, with a frontispiece from a painting by George Cattermole, engraved by T. Williams, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt lettering on black spine label, raised bands, extremities slightly rubbed. Endpapers, frontis and titlepage well foxed. An attractive early copy, with text aligned in double columns.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: 1st edition thus. Two columns of text per page. 12mo. (6) + 344pp. Bw engraved frontis by George Cattermole. Contemporary half leather binding. Original green leather spine with gilt raised bands+ red leather label with gilt lettering. Green marbled paper covered boards with green leather corner protectors with blind tooling along edges. White eps. Neat original ink signature + another with address dated " Hythe 1906 " on fep. Rubbing to outer edges of boards withchipping of marbleing, slight rub top of spine. Contents heavy foxing to frontis, slight foxing/browning to prelims & trails else clean & tight. **. VG.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman and Hall, London, 1848.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: The first cheap edition of Charles Dickens' novel following the fate of a granddaughter and grandfather as they struggle against the evil doings of a moneylender. The first cheap edition, following the serialistion of the novel from 1840 to 1841 in 'Master Humphrey's Clock'.Illustrated with a frontispiece by George Cattermole, engraved by T. Williams.'The Old Curiosity Shop' was incredibly popular when serialised, so popular that readers in New York stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment over.This novel follows Nell Trent and her grandfather, who live in the Old Curiosity Shop in London, where they become targeted by an evil moneylender.Bookplate of D. B. Anderson to the verso of the front endpaper. In a quarter calf binding with cloth to the boards, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the occasional spot and handling mark. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman & Hall, London, 1848.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: First issue of the cheap edition of this Dickens classic with the new preface dated September 1848. The third of Dickens' works to be offered in this format. In total 18 books (most sources say 16 or 17 - but they are wrong!) were published in the cheap edition between 1847 and 1868. In publisher's original vertically ribbed olive cloth with elaborate blind-stamping to covers and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Frontis. by Cattermole, 3pp preface and text in double columns. Neat repairs to minor snags at head and tail of spine, faint ring stain to front cover and usual sunning of spine from green to brown. A perfectly sound copy of a book that is now increasingly had to find in the original cloth.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. YOUNG, Robert, [illustrator]. Four Plates. The Old Curiosity Shop. Engraved Under the Superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to Illustrate The Cheap Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop. Little Nell and Her Grandfather, The Marchioness, Barbara, and an Etching by "Phiz." Published with the Approbation of Mr. Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. First edition. Quarto. Original pale blue printed wrappers. With four plates illustrating Little Nell and Her Grandfather, The Marchioness, Barbara and an etching by "Phiz." Some chipping to extremities, else, fine. HBS 66212. $200.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Old Curiousity Shop, The. Chapman and Hall, London, 1848.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 344 pages, some foxing, edges show wear of boards, solid condition, previous owner's bookplate on front free end page, marbled endpages.
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman and Hall, London, 1848.
Price: US$339.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original green cloth with stamped decorations to the boards and gilt decorations to the spine. This is the 1848 Cheap Edition, published the year following the first seprarte edition of 1847. In original cloth with some professional repairs to the head and heel of the spine. The spine is also a little browned, as are the outer page edges; some shelfwear to the cloth at the outer extremities of the boards and the spine. Bookplate to the rear pastedown, mistakenly placed in upside down. The suite of 4 plates separately issued to accompany this are not present.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Browne, Hablot K. First edition. 8 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. VanderPoel B207 Green wrappers. Splitting at spine. Very Good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Christmas Books. Chapman & Hall/ Bradbury & Evans 1843-1848, 1848.
Price: US$4682.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: five volumes, later half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, ruled in gilt, illustrated (preface and one plate laid down first volume), advertisement leaves, origiinal decorated upper covers and spines bound in, all edges gilt, occasional spotting, minor dust-soiling, a handsome set. Further information on individual titles and images available on request. comprises A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (third state), The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (second state), The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home (second state), The Battle of Life. A Love Story (fourth state) and The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain; first editions
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$14500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An excellent, complete set of Dickens's Christmas books, including a first edition, first issue of "A Christmas Carol" with parts of original cloth bound-in. All volumes 16mo. uniformly bound by Tout in three-quarter green morocco over green marbled boards, spines elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. AEG. Matching marbled endpapers. Each volume with the bookplate of The Library of B. George Ulizio Charles Dickens Collection. Spines uniformly darkened. Some occasional offsetting from the bound-in cloth. Overall, a handsome set housed in matching full red morocco pull-top slipcases, felt-lined.A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.: First edition, first issue. Pp. [viii], [1], 2-166, followed by two pages of publisher ads. Four inserted hand-colored plates, including frontis. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear.The Chimes. A Goblin Story: First edition, first issue. Pp. [vi], [1], 2-175 followed by colophon, and publisher's notice for the tenth ed. of Christmas Carol. First state of the added engraved title and frontis. by Becker after Maclise. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear.The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home.: First edition. Pp. [viii], [1], 2-174, followed by two pages of publisher ads, including the second state of the final leaf for the new edition of Oliver Twist. Engraved title and frontis. by G. Dalziel after Maclise. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. Small marginal repairs to pp. 59-61.The Battle of Life. A Love Story.: First edition, fourth issue. Pp. [viii], [1-3], 4-175, colophon, followed by two pages of publisher ads including Dombey and Son. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. Faint owner signature at head of frontis.The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: First edition. Pp. [vi], [1], 2-188, followed by two pages of publisher ads including Works by Mr. Dickens. Additional pictorial frontis. and title by Martin & Corbould after Tenniel. Original trimmed cloth from front board and spine bound-in at rear. ECKEL, pp. 110-125. SMITH, Dickens II: 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Leather bindings housed in red full-morocco pull-top cases with some original cloth bound-in
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.