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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. O. Rich & Sons, 12, red Lion Square, London, 1846.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xx, [iv], 175, [1] pp. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. 1 vols. 12mo. SIGNED. Contains Griswold's memoir (pp. xvii-xx) of the author from "Poets and Poetry of America." While including the contents of the 1836 "Poems" the following were added for this edition: "Departed Days;" "Lines Recited at the Berkshire Festival"; "The Only Daughter"; "The Parting Word" (it's first appearance in book form); "Song Written for the Anniversary Dinner of the New York Mercantile Library Association"; "Song, Written for the Dinner Given to Charles Dickens. . ."; "The Steamboat"; "Terpsichore" (first book appearance) and "Lines Recited at the Cambridge Phi Beta Kappa Society's Dinner in 1844" (first book appearance). Most of the others had appeared in periodicals or other collections. BAL 8743 Original ribbed cloth, floral center wreath, a.e.g. Very Good, head and tail have early tape, unobstrusive. Signed "D. Holmes" cut signature tipped in on front pastedown xx, [iv], 175, [1] pp. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. 1 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. [2] (two pages advertising new and revised edition of "Oliver Twist" and a new untitled novel (Dombey and Son, per Eckel), 269, [1], followed by two pages of Dickens titles. With the original backstrip, titled in gilt, bound-in. Bound in red morocco, gilt spine titles with compartments tooled in gilt with raised bands, triple rule gilt frames in gilt. Turn-ins rolled in gilt. Binding signed Zaehnsdorf. Top edge gilt. Endpapers with slight offsetting; front free endpaper with chip to lower corner; fore-edge with superficial dampstain. Corners a trifle worn and scuff on rear cover; joints expertly repaired with discrete tissue strengthening to joints. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. A sumptuous Zaehnsdorf binding for Dickens' dispatches from Italy: The first few accounts were published 1846 in the paper he edited, The Daily News; five more were added to create Pictures from Italy, also 1846, presented here in the first issue of the first edition. Italy's built (and decayed) environment has been documented since Vitruvius. Dickens' brilliance? His depictions of street life, including a public execution. ECKEL, pp. 126-127; with all the points revealed by SMITH, Part II, p. 49.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. PICTURES FROM ITALY.. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1846.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Samuel Palmer, 6.75 x 4.5, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, SIGNED BINDING BY BAYNTUN- RIVIERE, 270 pp, very minor cover rubbing, hinges a little loose, pp toned else a nice copy of FIRST ED, FIRST STATE with "interdicted" on p 74, "1" in p169 battered, but with unraised "E" on p(iv) and a good "r" on p122 (occasional errors); see Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography. Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$20610.15 + shipping
Description: Half title, plates. With the original green variant cloth casing, bound into full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, triple-ruled borders & dentelles in gilt; spine very sl. faded. A very handsome copy. In cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of the first one-volume edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with George Cruikshank's original watercolour design of Fagin in the Condemned Cell. This constitutes one of Cruikshank's finest and most recognisable Dickens illustration, portraying the wretched Fagin seated in his cell at Newgate, anxiously awaiting the day of his execution, and contemplating his demise. Bound in opposite the plate at p.304, the watercolour is signed by Cruikshank, and also adorned, in the lower margin, with a small self-portrait in pencil, and three further unidentified sketched portraits.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom