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Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 8.75 x 5.5", rebound in library cloth, 406pp; 420pp with index, covers lightly rubbed, spines slightly cocked, hinges loose, EX-LIBRARY with usual markings, pp a little edge-toned else nice copies of this SCARCE edition.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: 406, 420. FIRST EDITION. Library Discard. Two volumes bound in blue cloth with title in gilt to the spine. The introduction in Volume I contains a considerable amount of bibliographical information on the contents. Library discard with the remains of a library label on the front paste down. This edition was withdrawn from publication due to issues with copyright. The first volume contains 'The Village Coquettes (1836), a collaboration by Dickens and John Hullah. These two met through Dickens' sister Fanny. The second volume contains two plays and twenty-one poems. One of the poems with a noteworthy title, first appeared in The Pickwick Papers. A very good set with moderate wear.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$780.00 + shipping
Description: 230 x 146 mm. (9 x 5 3/4"). Volume II lacking title page. Two volumes. Edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. Pleasing contemporary scarlet three-quarter morocco over buckram by Jeremiah Larkins (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with central starburst of lancet tools, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original blue cloth spine bound in. âBindings lightly soiled, very minor wear to extremities, gutter open at final page of volume I (though without causing looseness), trivial foxing, but still quite appealing--entirely clean and fresh internally, and in well-preserved bindings. This is an attractively bound copy of the first collected edition of Dickens' plays and poems, which was immediately suppressed after its publication due to copyright infringement. The piece that caused the trouble was the play "No Thoroughfare" (see volume II, pp. 67-180), which was co-written by the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins and published without his permission. The amended work was not reissued until 1885.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens with a Few Miscellanies in Prose. , 1882.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens with a Few Miscellanies in Prose. Now First Collected Edited Prefaced and Annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. Contemporary full smooth calf, triple ruled in gilt with gilt corner ornaments, raised spine bands, spine elaborate gilt, red and black morocco spine labels, gilt chamfering, inner gilt dentelles, morocco endpapers, T.e.g., housed in custom cloth slipcase. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1885. Large 8vo. 2 Vols. First collected edition. One of 150 numbered copies. Gimbel D96. Bookplates of the Earl of Carysfort. Front board of Vo. Two reattached, else a very good or better copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. Narrow 4to. 406 + (2) pp & v1 + (2) + 420 pp. Publisher's blue cloth covers, gilt lettering + framing lines on spine, blind line around edges on front. Original yellow eps. Untrimmed leading page edges. Covers : slight rubs top/bottom spine + corners, slight lean else bright. Contents : foxing to prelims/trails else very clean & tight. Tight clean attractive set. VG.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom