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“Please, sir, I want some more”: First Edition of Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
DICKENS, CHARLES.
Oliver Twist.
London: Richard Bentley 1838.
First edition, second printing with “By Boz” to each title page and the “Church” plate. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full brown calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple ruled gilt to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Original cloth bound in at rear of each volume. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 15010
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The Works of Charles Dickens; complete in Twenty Volumes
DICKENS, CHARLES.
The Works of Charles Dickens Complete Editon in Twenty Volumes with Illustrations by Cruikshank, ‘Phiz,’ &c.
London: Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Humphrey Milford n.d.
Finely bound set of the complete works of Charles Dickens. Small octavo, twenty volumes, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, profusely illustrated by Cruikshank, Cattermole, and ‘Phiz.” In near fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 144912
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Rare First Edition, First Issue of Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities
DICKENS, CHARLES.
A Tale of Two Cities.
London: Chapman and Hall 1859.
First edition, first issue of one of Dickens’ most enduring works. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, sixteen plates after H.K. Browne including frontispiece and title vignette. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 143955
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The Works of Charles Dickens; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco with John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens
DICKENS, CHARLES; JOHN FORSTER.
The Works of Charles Dickens and The Life of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1873-1876.
Finely bound set of the works of Charles Dickens, uniformly bound with John Forster’s definitive biography of Dickens. Octavo, 30 volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with numerous etched plates after H.K. Browne, George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Marcus Stone and others including frontispieces and engraved vignette titles. In near fine condition. A very nice set.
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 143537
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, CHARLES.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans 1850.
First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In very good condition, bookplate.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 139470
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“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot": First Edition of Our Mutual Friend: Dickens' final completed novel
DICKENS, CHARLES.
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman and Hall 1865.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ fourteenth and final completed novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 142437
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Rare first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; bound in full royal blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery
DICKENS, CHARLES.
Great Expectations.
London: Chapman and Hall 1861.
First edition, first impression of Dickens’ rarest novel. Octavo, three volumes bound in full royal blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Bayntun, all edges gilt. The earliest impression of Dicken’s rarest novel. This copy agrees in all points with Margaret Caldwell’s extensive analysis of the differing impressions in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations. As in the Lawrence Drizen copy sold in 2019 at Sotheby’s and in the Clarendon edition, the third volume here contains the numeral “3” in the pagination on p. 103, and the initial “i” in “inflexible” on p. 193, which are sometimes missing in copies of the first impression of the third volume, indicating that the present copy is among the earlier printings of the first impression. Smith comments that “the rarity of the first issue of Great Expectations has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title-page, coupled with the fact (according to C.P. Johnson, “Hints to Collectors”) that “the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.” Only 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 copies of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second (1400 copies in all) were purchased by Mudie’s Select Library. Eckel, pp. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14. In fine condition. An exceptional example of one of Dickens’ great masterpieces.
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 142357
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"The veritable Bible of Christmas": COMPLETE SET OF DICKENS' CHRISTMAS BOOKS, INCLUDING FIRST EDITIONS of The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, THE BATTLE OF LIFE, AND THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN and the first appearance of A Christmas Carol in the matching red cloth
DICKENS, CHARLES.
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans 1844-48.
Complete set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books, comprising the first appearance of A Christmas Carol in red cloth, issued to match the others, and first editions of the remaining four. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol is a tenth edition with 4 hand-colored plates, spine neatly repaired [1844]; First edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story with the advertisement leaf for the above edition of A Christmas Carol, second state of vignette title-page, recased [1845]; first edition of The Cricket on the Hearth, second state of advertisement leaf [1846]; first edition of The Battle of Life with vignette title-page in fourth state without imprint (Todd’s E1) [1846]; first edition of The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain with p.161 numeral intact, spine ends repaired [Bradbury & Evans, 1848]. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 141364
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“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded": CHARLES DICKENS’ OLIVER TWIST
DICKENS, CHARLES.
The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1846.
First single volume edition of Dickens’ classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Original front wrapper bound in. Armorial bookplate.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 141345