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 to dine,... Learn More£7,000.00Stock Code: 137842
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(DICKENS, Charles.) GALLOWAY, Alex Hair. A Critical Dissertation on some of the Writings of Charles Dickens, Esq.Liverpool : [c. 1862]
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Martin Browne Esq with the authors compts". A rare volume, untraced in British institutions, two copies located on OCLC in New Orleans and New Zealand. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 138179
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(DICKENS, Charles.) SMITH, Walter E. Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth.Los Angeles : 1982-1983
First editions, first printings, of Walter Smith's essential bibliography to the works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138143
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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. The Works of Charles Dickens.London : 1881-82
Edition De Luxe, limited to 1000 numbered copies of which this is number 559. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 134079
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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. Signed cheque, framed.26 July 1861
Check inscribed and signed by Charles Dickens, paying the sum of 15 to his trusted servant John Thompson (1821-71), who was in his employ since 1840. His trust was misplaced - in November 1866 Thompson was caught stealing and dismissed (see Letters 11: 262-63). A nice example of Dickens's signature, with his characteristic flourish. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 138577
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition, in the publisher's deluxe binding of half morocco. Following the serialization in parts, Dombey and Son was issued in book-form in cloth, full morocco, and the present half morocco. The deluxe bindings of Dickens have been somewhat marginalized by bibliographers, but it is certainly the case that they are significantly scarcer than the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138737
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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,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138195
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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.) FIELD, Kate. Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings.Boston : 1868
New and enlarged edition, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper "with the regards of K.F. Newport Aug 29 1868", together with the author's corrections on twenty pages. Kate Field (1838-96) was a writer, journalist, actress and lecturer. Dickens wrote to her on 3 January 1868 stating "I must avow that nothing in the pretty basket of flowers was... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 138178
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(DICKENS, Charles.) HATTON, Thomas, & Arthur H. Cleaver. A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens.London : 1933
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 35 of 250 copies signed by both Hatton and Cleaver. An essential reference work for Dickens's publications in parts. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138145
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[DICKENS, Charles.] Sketches of Young Gentlemen.London : 1838
First edition, Dickens's guide to young ladies of the qualities to look for in a gentleman, written against the publication Sketches of Young Ladies, issued by Chapman & Hall the previous year. Provenance: booklabel to front pastedown of the industrialist James William Ellsworth (1849-1925); the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, stamp on rear endpaper;... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138167
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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. 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... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 136251
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DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books.London : 1852
First authorised 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 John Towers Lawrence... Learn More£60,000.00Stock Code: 135836
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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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(WISE, Thomas James.) 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.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values.London : 1913
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 21 of 250 copies signed by the author and the publishers. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 138141
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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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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 principle... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 134817
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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 : [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.) 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... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138190
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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. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : 1844
First edition, bound from the original parts published from December 1842 to July 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£600.00Stock Code: 130564
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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. The Nonesuch Dickens.London : 1938-9
The Nonesuch edition, one of 877 sets, this set unnumbered. This peculiar limitation is due to the inclusion with each set of one of the original plates used in Chapman and Hall's first printings of each title. Since they held in their archive 877 such plates - the majority steel but with a number of wood blocks, as here - the limitation was enforced.... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 139227
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DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy.London : 1846
First edition of Dickens's second travel book, based on the travel letters he published in the Daily News (21 January-11 March 1846), describing his journey through France and sojourn in Italy in 1844-45. While preparing the book for the press he hit a snag: "Clarkson Stanfield had agreed to illustrate the text for Dickens but, when he read... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 138129
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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 Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition in book form (following publication in parts from April 1838 to October 1839), first issue with "visiter" on p. 123 and "latter" on p. 160. "All the humour of the recently completed Pickwick is reaffirmed in Nicholas Nickleby which has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 130536
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1931
First edition illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, handsomely bound for the luxury purveyors Asprey. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 134824
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(DICKENS, CHARLES, attributed). [MOGGRIDGE, GEORGE.] 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 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. 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. 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 : 1897-9
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.14 Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138138
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[DICKENS, Charles.] Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz."London : 1838
First edition, first issue, with Boz title pages and the Fireside plate. Walter E. Smith explains the bibliographical details in Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: "when Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 97462
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1874-6
A most handsome set of Dickens's works in 30 volumes, uniformly bound with a further two volumes of John Forster's biography of Dickens. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 139247
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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. 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.] 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... 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. A Tale of Two Cities.London : 1859
First edition in book form, second issue, without the signature "b" on the list of plates and with page 213 correctly numbered. Dickens's great historical romance, set during the French Revolution, remains one of his best known and most widely read works. The novel was originally serialized in the weekly journal All the Year Round, from 30 April to... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 130539
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life of Our LordLondon : 1934
First edition in book form, first impression, in the scarce publisher's deluxe leather binding with the dust jacket, printed on japon. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849, and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" (see Letters,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 138148
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life of Our LordLondon : 1934
First edition in book form, trade issue, unopened in the sealed mailing carton, as issued. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849, and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" (see Letters, Vol. IX, Oxford, 1997, p. 557). It was... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138154
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DICKENS, Charles. Library of Fiction,London : 1836
First edition in book form, first issue (1836 on title page), contains two 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. Although the first volume of The Library of Fiction was followed by a second volume... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 138171
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.London : 1848
First edition in book form, following publication in serial form from September 1846 to March 1848, 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). This copy is in a variant binding to that detailed by Smith, but the design matches that used... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138244
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DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist; [together with:] A Tale of Two Cities.London : 1890
A handsomely bound copy of Oliver Twist, first published in 1838, and A Tale of Two Cities (1859); uniting these two titles was a fairly common practice by Chapman and Hall, as both books are relatively slender. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 138711
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DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books; [together with:] Hard Times.London : 1891
A handsomely bound copy. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 138722
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.London : 1979
A handsome copy, bound for the luxury purveyors Asprey, of this facsimile of the first edition of 1837. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 134809
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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
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.London : 1844
First edition in book form, first issue, with issue points as stated by Smith, first serialised between December 1842 and July 1844. This copy has the transposed 100 title plate, which is often suggested as a first issue point. Hatton and Cleaver long ago dismissed this, however, stating that "It is merely one of the five cases in Chuzzlewit of triplicated... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 125543
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.London : 1848
First edition, first issue, uncorrected, bound from the monthly parts. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111303
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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. Christmas Stories.[London] : 1851-62
An attractive collection of nine of Dickens's Christmas Stories, bound from the original parts, consisting of What Christmas Is (1851), The Poor Relation's Story (1852), The Schoolboy's Story (1853), The Seven Poor Travellers (1854), The Holly-Tree Inn (1855), A House to Let (1858), The Haunted... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136590
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DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol.New York : 1930
First Wooly Whale edition, number 188 of 200 copies reserved for private distribution, out of a total edition of 250 copies (50 copies were for general sale). An attractive privately-printed edition of Dickens's Christmas classic, and the first prose publication of the Wooly Whale Press. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136766
