Search results for: 'DICKENS, Charles'
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DICKENS, Charles. The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution... Speeches in behalf of the Institution, by the late Mr. Charles Dickens, President.London : [c.1870]
Second edition, reprinting reports of speeches and correspondence dated between 1849 and 1870. Podeschi notes two editions in the Gimbel collection: one printed by Buck and Wootton and another (entirely reset) printed by Wm Clowes and Sons, as here. Provenance: William Glyde Wilkins (1854-1921), bookplate, his sale, The Anderson Galleries, New York,... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 138161
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DICKENS, Charles; Robert Browning; and others. Collection of autograph material, including 4 autograph letters signed by Charles Dickens, 4 by Robert Browning, and a quantity of other autograph material.Various places : 1860s-1910s
The Dickens and Browning letters are addressed to Emma Pender (18171891), second wife of Sir John Pender, Scottish textile merchant in Manchester, submarine communications cable pioneer, and politician.
The Dickens letters are:
a) with envelope, stamp clipped, to Mrs Pender, 9 Park St, Westminster, SW; 5 May 1863, declining an invitation... Learn More£7,000.00Stock Code: 137842
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores. Dickens met Bryant for their first private audience on his American tour on Tuesday... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 90110
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DICKENS, Charles, Jr. Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames,London : 1880
First edition, very scarce presentation copy inscribed, "George Ryan, with kind regards, Charles Dickens, Nov. 1879" above the Preface. Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames was a very popular guide to the river by Dickens's eldest son, updated and reissued every year until his death in 1896. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143704
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DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy.London : 1846
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author at the head of the half-title, "Thomas Beard Esquire, From his old friend Charles Dickens, Devonshire Terrace, Nineteenth May 1846". The inscription is dated the day after publication. Thomas Beard (1807-1891) was almost the oldest of Dickens's friends, and their friendship was uninterrupted... Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 130416
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DICKENS, Charles. The Village Coquettes: A Comic Opera.London : 1836
First edition of Dickens's comic opera, in the original sheets, never bound or sewn. The Village Coquettes opened on 6 December 1836. "The quaint humour, unaffected pathos, and graceful lyrics of this production found prompt recognition, and the piece enjoyed a prosperous run" (George Sala, Speeches, Letters, and Sayings of Charles Dickens, p. 10). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138195
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DICKENS, Charles. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.London : 1848
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "William Haldimand Esquire With the cordial remembrance and regard of Charles Dickens Twenty ninth March 1849".
A former director of the Bank of England and a Member of Parliament for Ipswich, William Haldimand (1784-1862) was the brother-in-law of William de Cerjat,... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 143199
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DICKENS, Charles. Sunday Under Three Heads.London : 1836
First edition of the young Dickens' pseudonymous political pamphlet defending the right of the poor man to a free Sabbath, in opposition to a proposed law (put forward by Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet Agnew of Lochnaw) prohibiting all work and all recreation on a Sunday. Provenance: Richard Manney, book-label to chemise, sale of his library at Sotheby's... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 138166
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DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed.1842
Autograph letter signed from Charles Dickens to Thomas C. Grattan (1792-1864), Irish novelist and British consul in Boston, upon Dickens's return from his first trip to America, in total around 200 words in his hand. A bitter Dickens reflects upon his trip, generally seen as unsuccessful following controversies over copyright, and has come back to find... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 137058
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation, inscribed by Dickens: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores, and with two accompanying autograph letters signed. In the... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 90111
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DICKENS, Charles. Signed invitation card with holograph entry in Dickens's hand and annotated playbill for the production of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, given by Dickens's company, the Amateur Players.London : 1845
A superb memento of Dickens's theatrical high-water mark, his bravura performance as the "craven and boastful" Captain Bobadil in his own "strictly private" production of Ben Jonson's comedy Every Man in his Humour.
The invitation card in effect a ticket to the performance carries his characteristic flourished signature on the verso and a holograph... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 143142
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DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller.London : 1861 [i.e. 1860]
First edition in book form, presentation copy from Dickens to his friend William Harness, inscribed by the author on the title page "The Rev: William Harness From Charles Dickens Christmas, 1860".
Dickens's friendship with the Shakespearean scholar William Harness (1790-1869) probably began at the Athenaeum - where both were members - in 1838,... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143168
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1852-3
First edition in the monthly parts. As usual, there is some variation in the make-up of the inserted advertisements from the exhaustive collation of the ideal copy provided by Hatton and Cleaver; however, "The Village Pastor" booklet in Part XV, described by Hatton and Cleaver as "rather scarce" and "often wanting", is here present.
H. K. Browne... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 142907
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DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books.London : 1852
First authorized collected edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the inserted blank facing frontispiece, "Agnes Sarah Lawrence, from her affectionate friend Charles Dickens, Twenty Second November 1852". The recipient Agnes Sarah Lawrence (born c.1835, and a young lady at the time of this inscription) was the daughter of John Towers... Learn More£60,000.00Stock Code: 135836
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1853
First edition, a dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page "Charles Knight from Charles Dickens third October 1853", the recipient being the publisher Charles Knight, a member of the Guild of Literature and Art, to whom the book is dedicated: "as a remembrance of our friendly union, to my companions in the Guild of Literature and... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 143179
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DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son.London : 1846-8
First edition, in the original monthly parts published from September 1846 to March 1848, here an especially fresh and clean set of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works... It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB).
The parts are accompanied by Hablot K. Browne's additional "Four Portraits",... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 136251
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) The Holly Tree & The Seven Poor Travellers. By Charles Dickens.1900
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the frontispiece. Includes, at the bottom, Brock's note to the printer, "I would suggest that the letters between pencil crosses be in red or blue." Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76061
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DICKENS, Charles - ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens Their Points and Values.New York : 1932
Revised and enlarged edition, number 42 of 750 copies only. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138142
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WISE, Thomas James (forger); DICKENS, Charles. To Be Read at Dusk.London : 1852 [i.e. 1891]
The Estelle Doheny copy of this Thomas James Wise forgery. Wise (1859-1937), the most prominent bibliographer of his day, funded his bibliophilia and fuelled his vanity by forging 19th-century literary publications, taking a known text, and producing non-existent "privately printed" editions in pamphlet form, which he sold to wealthy book collectors... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138197
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DICKENS, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby.London : [c.1870]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's third novel, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. Dickens's novel "has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English language" (Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, pp. 262-3). Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 122721
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : 1844
First edition.
Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking "a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics... For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 145353
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : [c.1875]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's classic, first published in book form in 1844. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking "a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics... For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 122708
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : 1844
First edition. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking "a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics... For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 134817
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : [c.1870]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's classic, first published in book form in 1844. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking "a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics... For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 122722
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DICKENS, Charles. Mr. Nightingale's Diary: a Farce. In One Act.Boston : 1877
First US edition of this farce commenced by Mark Lemon and completed by Dickens. This the brown cloth variant, another in green, no priority assigned. In 1851 Dickens promised to write a farce for his recently formed "Company of Strolling Players", founded to support the Guild of Literature and Art, but his busy schedule prevented him from completing... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 138164
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DICKENS, Charles. Library of Fiction,London : 1836-1837
First editions in book form, the first volume containing two early pieces by Dickens (as Boz) - "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "A Little Talk About Spring and the Sweeps". Both were collected in Sketches by Boz published later in the same year. The second volume, completing the publication, does not contain any work by Dickens, but contains illustrations... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138190
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : [early 1900s]
A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Dickens, with illustrations throughout.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 68471
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DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England.London : 1863
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "Charles Dickens To Katie Cornelius November, 1864", the recipient being the six-year old daughter of his and his wife Catherine's longtime housemaid Anne Cornelius (neé Brown).
Anne was a most trusted housemaid for the Dickens household, even accompanying the novelist and his wife... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143169
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DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist;London : 1846
First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 140379
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1874-76
An attractively bound complete set of Dickens's works with a commemorative British "Charles Dickens" postage stamp pasted to the front free endpaper of each volume. As part of the Charles Dickens Centenary celebrated in 1912, a London Committee was established to collect funds for the benefit of the author's descendants. The committee, which included... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 138660
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition, presentation copy from the author to Lady Holland in a publisher's presentation binding of red morocco gilt, together with Dickens's original autograph letter signed accompanying the presentation, two pages, mounted by its last page within the front free endpaper.
The presentation letter reads: "In begging you, My Lady Holland,... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 143166
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DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist;London : 1846
First one-volume edition, handsomely bound. Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 110627
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DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes; [together with:] The Cricket on the Hearth; [and:] The Battle of Life.London : 1845-1846-1846
A superb set of presentation Christmas Books, all three copies presented by Dickens to his friend and theatrical Pickwick, John Pritt Harley, each inscribed by the author at the head of the printed title in blue ink, "J. P. Harley From his friend Charles Dickens".
The inscriptions are undated, but almost certainly all three were inscribed together... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 143148
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DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist;London : 1846
First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from the original publisher Bentley; many of his revisions were in the direction of a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his experience of public readings.
Oliver Twist was first published... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139279
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DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge.Philadelphia : 1842 [i.e. 1841]
First US edition in book form, inscribed by the author on his first visit to America on the vignette title page: "George Morris from Charles Dickens New York. First June 1842".
The recipient was the noted American journalist and poet George Pope Morris (1802-1864), editor and founder of various papers including the New-York Mirror and Ladies'... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 143156
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Second US edition in book form, inscribed by the author on his first visit to America on the title page: "George Morris from Charles Dickens New York. First June 1842".
The recipient was the noted American journalist and poet George Pope Morris (1802-1864), editor and founder of various papers including the New-York Mirror and Ladies' Literary... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 143159
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DICKENS, Charles. Original autograph leaf from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.[London : before April 1837]
Original autograph manuscript leaf with authorial deletions and insertions from Pickwick Papers, the novel that transformed an obscure 25-year-old journalist into England's most famous author in a matter of months. One of only five such leaves remaining in private hands, this leaf is from the setting manuscript used by the printers. Fewer than 50 of... Learn More£97,500.00Stock Code: 124911
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1836-1837
First US editions, first states. Parts 1 to 4 (appearing between 5 November 1836 and 20 September 1837) precede the first book edition in London, which was published by Chapman and Hall on 17 November 1837. The fifth part of the American edition appeared on 29 December. Part I is particularly scarce in first state, being issued in only 1,500 copies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138128
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DICKENS, CHARLES (attrib.), but George Moggridge. Sergeant Bell, and his Raree-Show.London : 1839
First edition. The book was once often accepted to be by Dickens, and indeed the binding here states Dickens as the author. However this is a fallacy - Dickens had originally agreed to write this book at the request of the publisher, but negotiations were cancelled. As Eckel notes "This is the third of the books illustrated by George Cruikshank with... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 138172
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : 1891
An extremely attractive library set of the works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 106052
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DICKENS, Charles. The Pic Nic Papers.London : 1841
First edition, the copy of Dickens's bibliographer Thomas Hatton, with his bookplate to the front pastedowns. This is a later issue without the incorrect "publisher young" on p. 3 of the introduction and with Palmer as the printer of both volumes. Charles Dickens edited the first two volumes of the work and wrote the introduction as well as The Lamplighter's... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 138220
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.London : 1848
First edition, extra-illustrated with the 12 character plates by "Phiz" (eight engraved solely by him and dated 1848, four vignetted within an oval frame and engraved by both "Phiz" and Robert Young). "With the author's sanction, 'Phiz,' co-operating with Robert Young, etched four extra plates for this work. They were fine portraits of Little Paul,... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 116660
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1899
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. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141805
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DICKENS, Charles. Reprinted Pieces.London : 1858
A Dickens curiosity, as attested by an inscription on the front binder's blank "These Reprinted Pieces originally appeared in Household Words, and were for the first time collected in the Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens vol I. This is the part of the vol. containing these Sketches to which I have added a new title page G. Chambers ?".... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 145439
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, bound from the original monthly parts, in a very handsome binding by the leading British bookbinders Bayntun-Riviere, and delightfully extra-illustrated with the full suite of Frederick Pailthorpe's 24 additional illustrations which were issued in 1882, retaining the front wrapper of that publication with the publisher's presentation... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 145656
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) Chapter II. The Story of Richard Doubledick.1900
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the heading of chapter two. The scene depicted shows Richard Doubledick, "gone wrong, and run wild", being shunned by his betrothed Mary for some unspecified importunity. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76023
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) "Adorable Norah, kiss me... or I'll jump in head-foremost".1900
The original illustration by Brock for Dickens's story The Holly Tree, signed by the artist, depicting young Norah and Master Harry at a high pitch of romance. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76049
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) "My friend -" began the Captain.1900
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which Captain Taunton comforts Richard Doubledick, and pulls him out of his dejection. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76042
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) "It is the hand of a brave Englishman".1900
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which Richard Doubledick meets, for the second time, the French Captain who had been leading the troops at Badajos that shot his friend Taunton. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76044
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DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) "Let it lie here, while I tell my story".1900
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which a convalescent Richard Doubledick awakens to find that the woman tending to him is his once-estranged love Mary, and that she is now his wife, they having married when he had been at the point of death. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76043
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DICKENS, Charles. The Nonesuch Dickens.London : 1937-9
First Nonesuch edition, number 9 of 877 sets, here with the original steel plate "The Boarding House" engraved by George Cruikshank for Sketches by Boz, with a proof pull and letter of authentication from Chapman and Hall signed by Deputy Chairman Arthur Waugh.
The peculiar limitation is due to the inclusion, enclosed in the 24th volume of each... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 145586
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DICKENS, Charles - SMITH, F. Hopkinson. In Dickens's London.New York : 1914
First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered sets, each signed on the limitation leaf by the artist and the publisher. Additionally signed by Smith on the print "Coffee-Room, George Inn". Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 75760
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DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend.London : [c.1870]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's classic, first published in book form in 1865. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens's last completed novel. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 122718
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DICKENS, Charles. Extraordinary Gazette:[London : March 1837]
First edition thus, one of two formats (the other larger and in 4 pages), of Dickens's supplement to Bentley's Miscellany. Dickens undertook the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany, commencing publication in January 1837. For the third issue (March) Dickens wrote this Extraordinary Gazette, veiled as a royal publication, promoting Richard Bentley's publishing... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 138158
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DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son.London : [c.1870]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's classic, first published in book form in 1848. Dickens's first novel to have an explicitly contemporary setting. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 122715
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DICKENS, Charles. The Letters.Leipzig : 1842-1880
An attractive uniformly-bound collection of German copyright printings, comprising Dickens's letters, two of his travel books, and three of his short stories, together with Forster's life of Dickens. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 132754
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DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son.London : [c.1875]
An attractively bound copy of Dickens's classic, first published in book form in 1848. Dickens's first novel to have an explicitly contemporary setting. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 122710
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DICKENS, Charles. The Strange Gentleman;London : 1837 [i.e. 1871]
Facsimile of the 1837 first edition of the first of Dickens's plays to be performed, in its original "the scarcest and costliest of all Dickens pamphlets" (Eckel). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 138173
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.London : 1848
First edition, bound from the original monthly parts as issued from October 1846 to April 1848, in the publisher's primary cloth binding, which was made available to owners of the parts upon the novel's completion, matching the binding of the book form edition. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111303
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DICKENS, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit.London : 1844
First edition in book form, first published as a serial between December 1842 and July 1844. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121402
