London: Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853. First edition. leather_bound. 624 [16] [16] [14] pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. From The Library of Jean Hersholt, with his signed bookplate inside of slipcase. First edition in the original 20 issues in 19 parts, with 40 inserted plates, including frontispiece and vignette..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852-1854. First edition. leather_bound. 210, 214, 321 pages. 15 x 12 cm. Dickens' intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchist history of England for children. Originally serialized anonymously in Household Words between 25 January 1851 and 10 December 1853. Topham was also one of Dickens's company of actors in..... More
London: Leopold B. Hill, ca.1900. leather_bound. 248 pages. 9 x 6 cm. Not in OCLC, although there are more than 200 titles by this publisher listed in OCLC. Half title, marbled endpapers, worn leather book label at rear cover of Brierley. Bond Street. More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. H.K. Browne. First edition. Hardcover. 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with following points -- two..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Hablot .K. Browne. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. 20 parts in 19 illustrated with forty plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. Perhaps most notable, the illustrations, usually darkened and foxed, are generally clean, the text as well. 12 line errata slip in part..... More
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1903. Suede. 66 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Bright, clean copy. Silk moire inside front and back covers. Borders designed by Samuel Warner, typography by Newell Q. White and presswork by George Parker. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. Hardcover. 499 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Frontispiece from a painting by T. Webster Esq. Yellow endpaper adverts for Chapman & Hall, text in two columns, latter clean and fresh. More
London: Bradbury & Evans, December 1855 - June 1857. Browne, H.K. First edition. Hardcover. 625 pages. 22 x 13 cm. In the 20 original parts (in 19). 40 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) including frontispiece and vignette title with latter, title page, Contents and List of Illustrations housed..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Cruikshank, George. First edition, second issue. leather_bound. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half–titles, EXTRA–ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank, many hand–colored and folding (including a play bill from the Drury Lane Theater announcing his last public appearance, Friday, June..... More
London: Robson & Kerslake, 1886. leather_bound. 331, 307, 315 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Facsimile edition of the 1836 edition uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf with the original brown cloth covers laid-in. Limited edition copy 114 of fifty sets with twenty-one colored etchings by F.W. Pailthrope. and black and white etchings..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, May 1864-November 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. In original blue/green wrappers. All latter correct with all ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver present, save for the rare "The Economic Life Assurance Society" following plates in Pt. 14. First issue of wrappers without..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, June, 1864 - December, 1865. Stone, Marcus. First American edition. Hardcover. 26.2 x 16.8 cm. Wood engraved portrait of Dickens after Marcus Stone and 34 parts in 19 vols. This was the first American periodical in parts. Each part appearing one month after the first..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Palmer, Samuel. First edition. Hardcover. 270 pages. 17 1/2 x 12 cm. ECKEL pp.135-136. The efficacy for Dickens in this journey and vacation with his family: his encounters with Italy's colorful street life that captured his imagination and is described here. Two pages of adverts..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Additional engraved title. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of amusing stories dealing with “Cockney..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of amusing stories dealing with “Cockney sporting scenes”. The..... More
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. 323, 298, 378. 18.5 x 12 cm. Three frontispieces and eleven etched plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz and Robert Jacob Hammerton. Lacks publisher ads. First issue with the error "publisher young" in Dicken's introduction in volume one and imprint of..... More