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Dickens, Charles. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, London, 1906.
Price: US$16.05 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo (20.5 x 13 cms). [4], vi- xvii, 666, plates. Red cloth; gilt lettering and decoration to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Red marbled endpapers. Biographical introduction signed AW (Arthur Waugh, father of Evelyn). 39 illustrations by Phiz. Volume IV in The Biographical Edition of Dickens’ works. Not dated. The 19 volumes of the Biographical Edition were published between 1903 and 1907, this one in 1906. CONDITION. Corners and edges somewhat scuffed but externally good for its age. Front hinge has a 1cm tear at its base; joints and hinges otherwise sound. There is a distinct crack between the first two gatherings, and some of the pages are creased at the top corner. The text block is otherwise tight and sound and the pages clean.
Seller: Michael Napier, Kettering, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles.. Oliver Twist: The Works of Charles Dickens National Edition Volume V. , 1906.
Price: US$35.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1906. Chapman and Hall Limited. Hardcover. GOOD Spine Faded. Covers worn. Limited to 750 copies. Rough cut pages. Foxing. Hinges worn. Loose pages. Previous owners name.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Condition: (see pics.) 40 black and white illustrations. Deceptively light as the pages are wafer thin despite being over 964 of them and no lighter than an average paperback. Beautifully decorated boards and spine. Rubbed to edges and corners due to age. Neat, clean and tight copy. Assume 1900 printing as part of a bestseller list in 17 volumes. Synopsis:A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.
Seller: Karmakollisions, Molesey, SURRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.06 + shipping
Description: (Englischsprachig). The life and the Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby containing a faithful account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and complete carreer of the Nickleby family. Edited by "Boz" - with 11 illustrations (steel engravings) by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), each accompanied by a captioned tissue - limited editon in 750 copies, darkgreen cloth, spine with gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpaper, pp 231-494, gr. 8vo. - series: The Works of Charles Dickens. National Edition. Title on spine little bit scratched, in all very good condition. Sprache: EN
Seller: HESPERUS Buchhandlung & Antiquariat, Hannover, Germany
Price: US$46.06 + shipping
Description: (Englischsprachig). The life and the Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby containing a faithful account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and complete carreer of the Nickleby family. Edited by "Boz" - with the facsimile title of the 1838 edition and 10 illustrations (steel engravings) by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), each accompanied by a captioned tissue - limited editon in 750 copies, darkgreen cloth, spine with gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpaper, pp 255-497, gr. 8vo. - series: The Works of Charles Dickens. National Edition. Cover little bit rubbed, title on spine minimal scratched, in all very good condition. Sprache: EN
Seller: HESPERUS Buchhandlung & Antiquariat, Hannover, Germany
Price: US$77.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1906. Chapman and Hall Limited. Hardcover. GOOD Spine Faded. Covers worn. Limited to 750 copies. Rough cut pages. Foxing. Hinges worn. Loose pages.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$198.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1906. Special Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Complete in 21 volumes, comprising the whole of Dickens's works. Published at 2 guineas in 1906. Books in VG condition in maroon cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, illustrated, spotted foxing to endpapers,some pages, and edges of text-blocks. Very heavy set which will incur considerable extra overseas postage. May incur more postage within UK due to weight.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$571.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete Set of 21 Volumes. Title Pages Dated 1906. B&W Full-Page illustrations. In contemporary Red Calf Half-Leather Bindings with Grey & Gilt Marbled Paper-covered Boards and Leather Corners. 2 Raised Bands to spines with Gilt Lettering above the upper band, Gilt "1906" beneath the lower band. Most of the spine, between the 2 bands is filled with an attractive Gilt Floral Design. Top Page Edges Gilt. Marbled Endpapers. 8" Tall. Titles are: Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; Edwin Drood; Master Humphrey's Clock; Child's History of England; Christmas Stories; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities; Barnaby Rudge; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books; Sketches by Boz; Dombey & Son; Hard Times; Reprinted Pieces; Martin Chuzzlewit; Great Expectations; Old Curiosity Shop; Uncommercial Traveller; Lamplighter; To Be Read at Dusk; Sunday Under Three Heads; Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices; American Notes; Pictures From Italy. Centenary 1d stamps illustrated with Portrait of Dickens, 1812 - 1912 pasted on the back of the marbled ffep. Some edge wear and scuffing to leather. 3 vols have a small closed tear to leather at corner of spine (1/2" or 1" long), one has a strip of leather ( 1 1/2" long) missing at bottom of spine and 2 have a closed tear to leather all down 1 side of spine. Previous owner's surname at top corner of blank preliminary page on some books. All hinges sound but the 2 books with the long closed tear. Bindings firm. Occasional spots of foxing throughout. An attractive set. Weighs 12.5 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1906, and the Educational Book Co. Ltd. Later Editions. Twenty volumes, uniformly bound including 18 Works of Charles Dickens and 2 additional volumes published by the Educational Book Co. Ltd, being the Dickens Companion and Picture Book. 11 Volumes published by the Educational Book Co. Ltd and 9 published by Chapman and Hall. The Chapman and Hall published volumes slightly taller but in the same binding although the spine leather has sunfaded from green to brown. Gently worn to the spines, worn to the boards with marks and scratches. Works including 11 of 18 volumes of the Charles Dickens Library published by The Educational Book Co. Ltd. Including:Our Mutual Friend. [viii], 857pp, with 28 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. Sketches by Boz. [xii], 483pp, followed by Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Sketches of Young Coples, The Mudfog Papers Etc., ix, [i], 244pp; with 30 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. A Tale of Two Cities. [xii], 358pp; with 32 Original Plates by Harry Furniss; bound with American Notes For General Circulation, with a Special Frontispiece by Harry Furniss, [viii], 250pp; bound with Pictures from Italy, [ii], 179pp, with a Special Frontispiece by Harry Furniss. Dombey and Son. xii, 898pp; with 29 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. The Personal History of David Copperfield. [xii], 882pp, with 29 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. Christmas Stories from Household Words and All the Year Round. [viii], 593pp, followed by No Thoroughfare, and other stories, 218pp; with 29 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. Great Expectations. [viii], 461pp, with 28 Original Plates by Harry Furniss; bound with Reprinted Pieces, iv, 224pp, with a Special Frontispiece by Harry Furniss; bound with Memories and Sketches, iv, 212pp, with a Special Frontispiece by Harry Furniss. Little Dorrit. xii, 860pp, with 28 Original Plates by Harry Furniss. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. xvi, 418pp; with 34 Original Plates by Harry Furniss; bound with A Childs History of England, iv, 393pp, with a Special Frontispiece by Harry Furniss. The Dickens Picture Book, A Record of the Dickens Illustrators by J. A. Hammerton, with 600 Illustrations and a Frontispiece by Harry Furniss, viii, 466pp. The Dickens Companion, A Book of Anecdote and Reference by J.A. Hammerton with 72 Illustrations and a Frontispiece by Harry Furniss, xvi, 607pp. With 9 volumes of the Works of Dickens published by Chapman and Hall, all dated 1906, including: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated, xiii, [i], 715pp with a Postscript. The Uncommercial Traveller. viii, 433pp; with twenty-six illustrations by E G Dalziel. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Illustrated, xviii, 702pp. The Old Curiosity Shop, Illustrated, vi, 511pp; Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of the Eighty, Illustrated, viii, 586pp. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Illustrated, xviii, 675pp. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories. vii, 319pp. Bleak House, Illustrated, xiii, [i], 737pp. Christmas Books, Illustrated, [vi], 397pp. Approximately 7 ½ to 7 ¾ inches tall (19-20cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition nice contemporary binding, some rubbing and wear spines, gilt titles and floral decoration, Chapman and Hall set evenly faded to brown. Joints good condition worn, solid. Corners good condition worn and bumped. Boards good condition green cloth, minor marks and scratches to the leather. Page edges good condition top edge darkened gilt, others tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition strong and secure to all. Paste downs good condition green paper. End papers good condition green paper. Title good condition gently foxed, tanned with minor marks. Pages good condition some foxing, tanned with minor marks. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1906 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Works of Charles Dickens. Chapman and Hall, London, 1906.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 40 volumes of the best edition, the large royal 8vo thick of the National Edition, set of only 750 sets produced by Dickens original publisher. from 1906 to 1908, Original green gilt cloth with top edge gilt and others uncut. Beautifully illustrated with profuse etchings, includes the Life of Dickens and other works for the first time published. A Master work, sells for 5,000 however this set has suffered in the last 9 volumes from damp staining with some waffle to some boards, the others are very good with the same mellow to brown as usual effect on the gilt spines, the gilt on the spines a tad dull, the texts are very good. a bargain set that needs a tad of love. Special costs for shipping UPS Size: 4to
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 40 large octavo volumes. Edition limited to 750 copies for England and America, "The type of which was distributed as each volume was printed." An attractive edition, with facsimiles of the original titles and wrappers. Plates separately printed on heavy paper, with tissue guards. In addition to Dickens' fiction, it includes the Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (2 volumes) Miscellaneous Papers (2 volumes) and Letters and Speeches (2 volumes). Bound in green cloth, the spines ornately gilt. T.e.g. The spines are uniformly sunned to tan; a few volumes have small nicks to spine head, and Volume I has a 3/4 inch tear to spine head. Still a very handsome shelf of books. Two corrected pages are included in the original printed envelope, with a "Notice to Subscribers" by Chapman and Hall. Shipping will be rather costly.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1906-1908, FIRST EDITION THUS. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. GREEN CLOTH, OCTAVO. THE SPINES ARE FADED TO A UNIFORM TAN COLOR (OTHERWISE VERY GOOD). A PUBLISHERS ENVELOPE CONTAINS ONE SHEET THAT WAS OMITTED AND ANOTHER WITH A SPELLING CORRECTION. TWO VOLUMES HAVE A VERY SMALL TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE. ONE VOLUME HAS A 1 x1/3 HORIZONTAL LOSS AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE. THE TEXT BLOCKS ARE FINE. PICK UP SUGGESTED IF POSSIBLE TO AVOID POSTAL HANDLING.
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Works.. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1906, 1906.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: An appealing library set in the publisher's deluxe binding. This edition features illustrations from a wide range of artists commissioned by Chapman and Hall for their popular 1870s Household Edition. The prolific Brothers Dalziel produced the wood engravings after drawings from 11 different illustrators, including Phiz and Luke Fildes. Fildes worked on Edwin Drood in 1870, making him the last artist to collaborate with Dickens himself. 21 volumes, octavo (195 x 133 mm). Publisher's deluxe half calf, spine lettered and decorated with floral design in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume, numerous illustrations. Later 20th-century pencil ownership inscription to first blank of Martin Chuzzlewit. Spines uniformly faded, gilt bright, occasional spots of skinning, light rubbing to edges, contents foxed. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$27360.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 750 sets of the National Edition. With illustrators that include George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), George Cattermole and many others. Bound in full red morocco with five raised bands on the spine, with spine panels ruled, lettered, and decorated in gilt. Full red and black morocco front and rear inner covers with five perimeter gilt rules and floreate corner decorations in gilt. Edges of spine and covers are decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. A few volumes skillfully rebacked. Cancelled check signed by Dickens, dated 1864, mounted on the leaf preceeding the half title. Liberally illustrated with engravings laid onto heavy stock with captioned tissue guards. Occupies six linear feet on the shelf. The most authorative Dickens set with a stunningly beautiful full leather binding.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$28231.84 + shipping
Description: 80 vols. 8vo. (235 x 168 mm). Each vol. with leaf with limitation verso, half-title and printed title in red and black with publisher's vignette and Full contemporary blue crushed morocco, banded spines with gilt titles in six compartments, turn-ins with decorative gilt borders, marbled endpapers, blue silk placemarkers, t.e.g. Arguably the best edition of Dickens' works, with the definitive text, large type and facsimiles of title pages and original covers, etc. Limited to 750 copies. This a deluxe extra-illustrated set with before-letters proof states of most of the wood-engraved plates, together with additional hors-texte illustrations, many hand-coloured. This set also includes an original ALS from Dickens to George Dolby, his manager, dated the first of July 1866, in which Dickens tries to fix a date for the two to meet. A truly fine set.
Seller: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom