Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. Parts 1 and 2 (Volumes 18 and 19 of The Writings of Charles Dickens Standard Library Edition. Houghton, Mifflin & Co./The Riverside Press, 1894.

Price: US$27.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good 2 VOLUME SET of hardcovers. No DJ's. Wonderfully illustrated. Volumes 18 and 19 from "The Writings of Charles Dickens Standard Library Edition". Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt top page edges. Covers (orange/red boards with gilt decoration) show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Spines faded. Front hinge cracked in volume 18 but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. The Writings of Charles Dickens with Critical and Bibliographical Introductions and Notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and Others. Illustrated with Steel Portraits and Engravings from the Original Designs by Browne, Cruikshank[,] Leech, and Others.. Houghton Mifflin & Company (The Riverside Press), Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1894.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Standard Library Edition in THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES. Copyright and publishing date of 1894, top edge gilt, numerous steel engravings in each volume. Original green cloth with brown leather labels printed with gilt. Volume XXXII label loss of "IC" of Dickens, scratches/chips to top edge of labels on volumes IV, V and XIV without loss of print, corner bumps to volume IV and rear inner gutter starting to split at volume XV. Printed tissue guards throughout.

Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles [with Signed Check laid in]. The Works of Charles Dickens [Signed] [Large Paper edition, 32 volumes, leather. Houghton Mifflin and Co. Boston. Riverside Press, 1894.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Writings of Charles Dickens Large-Paper Edition With critical and bibliographical introductions and notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and others. Illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech and others. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Riverside Press. 1894. A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 271. In Thirty-Two volumes Hardcover. Bound in handsome red leather (crushed levant) with raised cords, gold lettering and decorations. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Leather corners. Top edge gilt. About 400 page per volume. Many volumes have 3 plates at the front (higher numbers have only two), one of which is beautifully hand colored. Illustrated throughout with the original illustrations, with tissue guards. The set is: The Pickwick Papers (2 volumes); Sketches by Boz; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby (2 volumes); Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge (2 volumes); Martin Chuzzlewit (2 volumes); Dombey and Son (2 volumes); David Copperfield (2 volumes); Bleak House (2 volumes); Little Dorrit (2 volumes); A Tale of Two Cities; Our Mutual Friend (2 volumes); Christmas Books (2 volumes); Hard Times; Uncommercial Traveller; Plays, Poems, Miscellanies; A Child’s History of England; Life, Letters, Speeched (2 volumes); The Dickens Dictionary. 2 volumes have small chips (nickel sized) on the crown of the spine where a piece of the leather is missing, and 4 others are cracked there, and the leather needs repair. 2 volumes have front cover detached (Volume 1 & the Christmas Books volume). Both covers are present. No other significant damage, but there is some wear to hinges and darkening to the leather corners throughout. A handsome set on 2 full shelves, notwithstanding the small chips mentioned above. Laid in at the front of the first volume, there is a check filled and signed by Dickens. Drawn on the bank of Messers Coutts & Compy. to ‘messrs Dawson, Newman & Co.’ in the amount of Thirty one pounds, six shillings and fourpence. Signed by Dickens and vigorously underlined, as was his style. Dated ‘Second February, 1866.’ The check is on blue paper, embossed with a ‘One Penny’ crowned stamp. It is struck through with blue ink. Mounted edgeways in white paper such that both sides are visible. Measures 7.5 x 3.75 inches. Endpaper and three blanks are detached on this volume. The page with the check is the first page attached. All the missing pages and board are here, however. Please email with questions or to request photos. Shipping will be more than the default settings, because it's 32 volumes.

Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens [Signed Check]. THE [ COMPLETE Works] WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS [Large-Paper Edition WITH CRITICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES BY EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE AND OTHERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL PORTRAITS AND ENGRAVINGS FROM THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY BROWNE, CRUIKSHANK LEECH AND OTHERS. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York/The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.

Price: US$12000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The Complete writings of Charles Dickens. 32 Volumes bound in 3/4 Red leather bindings, marbled boards and end papers. Top Edge gold gilt. Five raised bands with gold gilt leaf compartments. Limited to 500 volumes with a Signed Check by Charles Dickens tipped in to the front page. Set numbered 34. A fine set. No cracked hinges. No loose boards. Corners are sharp and square. No signatures of ownership or bookplates. An exquisite set with very little rubbing to corners or edges. [See Pict's].

Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.