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Price: US$7.64 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: The Gadshill Edition: Top edge gilt. Pages uncut and darkened. Backstrip darkened with age. Vellum's after illustrations. Backstrip dented. Fairly bound pageblock. Front and back hinge split. pp. 355.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.64 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: The Gadshill Edition with the original illustrations. Top edge gilt. Backstrip darkened with age and dented at the tail. Front and back covers shelfworn. Fore edge top and tail shelfworn. Cover corners bowed and edgeworn. Front and back hinge split. Pages uncut and browned with age - dogearred. Vellum infront of title page and illustrations. Binding split and spine hubbed. pp. 449.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$41.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume I: Loss to spine head and to spine base, mull exposed at front hinge, first few pages loose but included. Volume II: Front hinge starting. Both volumes: Spine faded. 1899 Hard Cover. xxii, 468; viii, 480 pp. Two volume set. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens' first novel. Because of his success with Sketches by Boz published in 1836 Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour,[1] and to connect them into a novel. The book became Britain's first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise.[2] On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in The Atlantic writes, ?Literature? is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call ?entertainment.?[3] Published in 19 issues over 20 months, the success of The Pickwick Papers popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings.[4] Seymour's widow claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's, but Dickens strenuously denied any specific input in his preface to the 1867 edition: "Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book."[5]--Wikipedia
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: 33 volumes. The Gadshill Edition. With the illustrations from the original first editions, as well as additional material such as manuscript copies, portraits, etc. 8vo, in contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spines decorated in gilt in compartments between flat bands, two contrasting labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Internally a nice solid set, the bindings still firm and strong but with rubbing and edge wear, the spines mellowed with chipping at several of the spine tips, a few labels lacking, one volume lacking additional leather on the spine, lacking volume 21, 'A Tale of Two Cities'. ONE OF THE VERY BEST COLLECTED SETS OF DICKENS. It "contains all the original illustrations, with many additional ones by Charles Green, Henry Furniss, Maurice Grieffenhagen et al". They were printed from author's carefully corrected editions of 1867 and 1868.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Gadshill Edition, complete in 34 volumes. Each volume with a fine engraved frontispiece and engraved extra title. Illustrated throughout from the original illustrations by Cruikshank, Browne, Seymour and others. With introductions, a general essay and notes by Andrew Lang. Large 8vo half tan calf and marbled boards by Morrell. Spines with raised bands, brown and tan morocco spine labels and gilt decorations in compartments. Some very light scuffs at the extremities and some scattered very light loss at the upper spine tips; three volumes with a board nearly off, else a near fine set of this important edition.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce collected edition of Dicken's Christmas books. 12mo., 5 volumes, original three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece and vignette title in color to each volume. In near fine condition. A scarce edition of Dickens' classic work. A Christmas Carol "may readily be called the Bible of Christmas. It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day. The number of reprintings have been so many that all attempts at the figures have been futile. Altogether 24 editions were issued in the original format" (Eckel, 110). "It was a work written at the height of Dickensâ great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor" (John Mortimer). "Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks, [A Christmas Carol] was the first of Dickensâ Christmas books (a new literary genre thus created incidentally) it was an extraordinary achievementâ"the one great Christmas myth of modern literature."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$5733.19 + shipping
Description: The Gadshill edition, "printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868" and including H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank's beloved illustrations. A handsome set of what is generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens. 34 volumes, octavo (193 x 138 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun in crimson half calf, titles and centre tool to spines gilt, crimson cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout the set with engraved titles pages and plates. Contents clean, some minor tanning to a few fore-edges, spines a little rubbed and faded. An excellent set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5733.19 + shipping
Description: The Gadshill edition, a handsome set of what is generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens, using his definitive revised texts and featuring the original illustrations. 36 volumes, octavo (201 x 140 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, smooth spines lettered and blocked with floral design in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout the set with engraved titles pages and plates. Light sunning to spines, some rubbing at extremities skilfully retouched. A very attractive set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom