Charles Dickens. a selection of books by and about Dickens across a broad range of prices

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1 Charles Dickens a selection of books by and about Dickens across a broad range of prices Between the Covers

2 Between the Covers Rare Books, inc. 112 Nicholson Road (856) Gloucester City, NJ Fax (856) Charles Dickens A selection of books by and about from all price ranges The books in this list (and similar items) can be found on our website by searching for Charles Dickens in the Author or Title Search field on the right side of our banner. You can also view these books individually by typing in each book s BTC Product ID into the search field of our Advanced Search page. The BTC Product ID is the number shown in this catalogue at the end of each book s description and before its price. For example, the BTC Product ID for the first book in this list is Also please note that full COLOR illustrations of every item in our inventory can be viewed on our website. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER. N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. Please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

3 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall First edition, later issue plates. Bound in probably 19th Century half red morocco and cloth. Ruled and titled in gilt. Attractive bookplate front pastedown, slight soiling to the cloth, a near fine copy, with considerable tanning to the margins of some of the plates. # $1,500 DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall First edition. Three volumes. Bound in 19th Century diced calf, each volume very neatly rebacked. Ruled and titled in gilt. A couple of modest stains to the boards, a little rubbing at the spine, an attractive, very good or better set. Contains *The Old Curiousity Shop* and *Barnaby Rudge*. # $1000 (DICKENS, Charles). Two-page Third Person Letter from Charles Dickens, probably written in the hand of his traveling secretary George Putnam. : Octavo. Folded for mailing. Very good or better. A letter written 8 March 1842 from the United States Hotel in Philadelphia to Mr. Joseph Jones, declining an invitation from the Committee of that city's Hibernian Society, during Dickens's first trip to America. Dickens stayed at the United States Hotel from March 5th through 9th, during which time he met twice in his rooms with Edgar Allan Poe, who was seeking help from Dickens in finding an English publisher. # $950

4 DICKENS, Charles. The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans A fine, complete set of the Christmas books, beautifully bound by Bayntun. *A Christmas Carol* with first edition title page but corrected text; first edition, first issue of *The Chimes*; first edition of *The Cricket on the Hearth*; first edition, fourth issue of the vignette title page of *The Battle of Life*; first edition of *The Haunted Man*. All works with original illustrations, including four full-color plates in *A Christmas Carol*. Each volume has been uniformly bound in three-quarter, gilt-ruled morocco with gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers and all edges gilt. A lovely set, housed in a custom, half morocco gilt clamshell box. # $11,250 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. New York: Harper & Brothers Second American edition, later impression (preface on verso of titlepage). Printed green wrappers, [1-4], [5]-32. Includes the leaf of ads. Chip on the rear wrap, affecting no text (present and laid in), small chips and tears at the extremities, a very good copy. An unauthorized edition following the Philadelphia edition published the same year. Fragile and very scarce. # $950 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall First edition, second state with the frontispiece engraving corrected. Bound by Nelson of Glasgow in half green morocco and green cloth. Ruled and titled, and all edges gilt. Spine slightly darkened, else a sound, near fine copy with clean plates with just the slightest of tanning. # $1000

5 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose; the Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz First Collected edition. 12mo. Contemporary halfmorocco and marbled-papercovered boards. Bookplate and tiny owner name on the front pastedown, tiny ink page numbers on the first halftitle, indicating where each story is to be found in the volume, still a lovely near fine copy. # $550 DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars First edition, fourth state. Rebound by Henry Sotheran in full red crushed morocco gilt. Onwer's small name on titlepage, and equally small later inscription, else a lovely, fine copy. # $475 DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars First edition, fourth state. Bookplate front pastedown, lacking the top one inch of the spine, not affecting any text, light soiling to spine and along edges of boards. This is the fourth state with the frontispiece vignette including an angel holding the banner and no publisher's information. # $250

6 DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition. Forty illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title. Bound by Morrell of London in full polished calf, boards ruled in gilt, red and black labels titled in gilt, compartments and dentelles elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Gift inscription on the first blank, very slight rubbing, just about fine. A very nice copy. # $1,500 DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition. Forty illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title. Bound by Bayntun in older full cross grain calf binding, boards ruled in gilt, red and green labels gilt, compartments and dentelles elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to the spine ends, still just about fine. A very nice copy. # $1,250 DICKENS, Charles. Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition. First printing. "Captain" misspelled on page 324 as "Capatin." Three quarter red leather with marbled boards, endpapers and page edges, gilt decoration. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. Very good despite the following flaws: owner's bookplate on front pastedown (also a bookplate removed from front fly verso leaving a glue stain), owner's name on preliminary pages, pages foxed, very light water line on title page edges, cover modestly edgeworn. # $800

7 DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition, later issue. Lacks half-title (as usual), with 8-line errata page, and the following issue points: in the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle"s hook is on his left arm; p. xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p. 26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p. 40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" last line p. 324; p. 582, the last line has no end period. Thick octavo. Forty illustrations (including frontispiece and title-page vignette) by Browne ("Phiz"). three-quarter calf and marbled papercovered boards. Bookplate of Henry Lomax Gaskell, some light foxing, spine rebacked with some mild restoration to covers, a sound, very good copy. # $575 DICKENS, Charles. Old Curiosity Shop. PA: Peterson c Early reprint. Very good minus/hardcover no dustwrapper Some light browning, illustrated. Water staining on end paper and inside front cover. Dark brown cover has embossed design with gilt title and design on spine. Light fading and rubbing. Corners are worn with light wear along edges. Spine in torn and has small split, chip front top. # $50 DICKENS, Charles. Home and Social Philosophy; or, Chapters on Every-day Topics. From "Household Words," edited by Charles Dickens. First Series. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons First American edition. Putnam's Library for the People (also issued in wraps as Number XV in *Putnam's Semi-Monthly Library for Traveler's and the Fireside*). Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Bookplate of Frederic Bronson on the front and (erroneously on the) rear pastedown, else a nice, near fine copy of these selections from *Household Words.* # $250

8 DICKENS, Charles. Home and Social Philosophy: or, Chapters on Every-day Topics. From "Household Words," edited by Charles Dickens. Second Series. New York: G.P. Putnam First American edition. Putnam's Library for the People (also issued in wraps as Number XV in *Putnam's Semi-Monthly Library for Traveler's and the Fireside*). Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Two neat owner names on the front fly, general rubbing and wear to the boards, a tidemark in the upper margin of the last half of the pages, a bit of foxing to the text, a near very good copy of these selections from *Household Words.* # $150 DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England. New York: Harper and Brothers 1853,1854. First American edition of each volume (conforming to *Gimbel A129* with 1853 on titlepage of Volume One, and the correct publisher's addresses for each volume). Two volumes. Uniform publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, titled and decorated on the spine in gilt. Boards a trifle soiled, corners slightly bumped, slight foxing to prelims, still a beautiful and fresh, fine set. Very scarce, especially in this condition. # $1,500 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition, first issue (with the errata slip in Vol. XVI, "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in part 15, pp. 469, 470, 472 and 473, and all advertisements except lacking one page of the Dr. De Jongh ad in Vol. XVIII). Forty illustrations by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Twenty parts in nineteen. Original blue printed paper wrappers. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. A handsome set. # $3,750

9 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition, first state with signature BB2 marked "B2" (p. 371). Forty illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by H.K. Browne (aka, "Phiz"). Thick octavo. Rebound in three-quarter dark red calf and marbled papercovered boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Bookplate of F. Piggott, some light offsetting and foxing in the text, some rubbing to the boards, else a fine copy. # $1,500 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition, first state with signature mark B2 for 2B2. Forty illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title. Bound by Bayntun in older full cross grain calf binding, boards ruled in gilt, red and green labels gilt, compartments and dentelles elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing at the crown, still just about fine. A very nice copy. # $1,250 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans First edition. Thirty-nine illustrations by H.K. Browne. Rebound in three quarter leather with old marbled boards and new marbled endpapers whose pattern does not match. Endpapers foxed, preliminary pages have owner's name and bookplate offsetting, chipped rear endpaper corner, boards are scuffed, else very good. # $1,200 DICKENS, Charles. The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp. London: Bradbury & Evans First "reading" edition. Small octavo. 114,(1)pp. Original green wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers quite soiled, some erosion to the extremities of the spine, a fair only copy. An edition of these works prepared for bookstores and on the occasions of Dickens's public readings. # $275

10 DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall First edition. Original red publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary owner's initials on the front blank, a little rubbing and soiling to the boards, a bit of foxing to the plates, a near fine copy, in a red quarter-morocco clamshell case. A highspot of English literature, now grown exceptionally scarce in original cloth. # $30,000 DICKENS, CHARLES. Dickens' Little Folks: Florence Dombey from the Dombey and Son. New York: Clark, Austin, Maynard and Co First edition. Good with soiling to boards, cocked spine, and moderate wear to edges. # $22 DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial London: Chapman and Hall Traveller. Reprint.12mo. Rubbed maroon boards with gilt letter, toned spine, bumped corners, cracked hinges and loose end papers but complete good only copy. # $25 (DICKENS, Charles) F.G. De Fontaine, Compiled by. A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens. New York: E. J. Hale & Son Reddish cloth stamped in black and gilt. Small chips at the crown, some rubbing and slight erosion to the cloth, a near very good copy. # $150

11 The Charles Dickens Birthday Book. NY: Whittaker c1882. First edition. Very good hardcover. Name on endpaper. Writing in pages. Gold leaf edges of pages. # $60 RIMMER, Alfred. About England With Dickens. London: Chatto and Windus First edition. Very good in boards as isseud with chip and rubbing to spine and crack front hinge. # $40 DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Also Pictures From Italy, and American Notes. NY: Cassell Pub. Co. c Reprint. Good: Book shows water stain/warping of back panel, staining of panels/spine, bumping, book plate/stains on inner front panel, staining of end pgs, slight foxing. Top Pg ends gilded gold. # $11 DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Philadelphia: Lippincott ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 577pp. # $40

12 DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England. Philadelphia: Lippincott ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 468pp. # $40 DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books. Philadelphia: LIppincott ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 493pp. # $40 DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Stories. Philadelphia: Lippincott ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 709 pp. # $40 DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 552pp. # $40

13 DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Philadelphia: Lippincott ca Later printing. One book from a set. Near fine in green cloth with gold stamping on the spine, top edge gilt, scattered foxing on the pages. 409pp. # $40 LANGTON, Robert. The Childhood and London: Youth of Charles Dickens. Hutchinson & Co Revised and enlarged edition. Front pastedown with pencilled inscription and half-title with affixed newspaper review; very good plus, with cloth chewed over the spinal extremities. # $25 DICKENS, Charles. American Notes and Pictures from Italy. London: Macmillan and Company Reprint. Introduction by Charles Dickens the Younger. Very good with some offsetting to the endpapers and some foxing on the textblock. # $25 DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation and Pictures from Italy. London: Chapman and Hall Reprint. Octavo. Nicely bound in crimson half morocco and paper over boards by Rickers and Son. The front joint is beginning to split a little, else a tight, very good copy. # $85

14 SWEETSER, Kate Dickinson. Ten Boys From Dickens. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Very good in a fair dustwrapper with the top two inches of the spine missing, tears and chips along the edges. # $30 (DICKENS, Charles),(Phiz), C.C.G.. A Triptych of Three Illustrations Copied from Phiz. : Three very nice pen-and-ink drawings by an amateur artist. Each is 7 7/8" x 10", and each is on backing board of roughly equivilent sizes. Copied from the etchings "Mrs. Bardeau Faints in Mr. Pickwick's Arms" (a new etching for the second edition of the *Pickwick Papers*); "My Magnificent Order at the Public House" (from *The Personal History of David Copperfield*); and "The Eyes of Mrs. Chick Are Opened to Lucretia Tox" (from *Dombey and Son*); all originally created by Phiz for Charles Dickens. Each is signed "C.C. G." with the date in Images a bit tanned, light, scattered foxing, edges chipped, the second image has large loss at lower left corner of board and third has loss at upper left corner, neither effecting the images, all have glue residue along top of boards that does not affect the images, some minor soiling to all, very good. # $175 (Literary Biography) WARD, H. Snowden and Catherine Weed Barnes Ward. The Real Dickens Land with an Outline of Dicknes's Life. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited First edition. Good only, binding starting to crack between several pages, spine ends torn and chipped, cover corners worn, tears in cloth on top of gutters, closed tear in top of spine, spine faded, some scuffing and light staining on covers and spine, offsetting to end papers, Inscribed by H. Snowden Ward on front fly, Gilded top page edge. # $50

15 CHESTERTON, G.K.. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. New York: Dodd Mead & Company First edition. Small octavo. Maroon boards with wear to the extremities, spots on rear board, small tears and endpapers, remnant of book plate and penciled owner's name very good. # $35 The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers and Monthly Record of The Dickens Fellowship. Volume Three. London: Chapman & Hall Octavo. Publisher's red cloth gilt with facsimile Dickens' signature on the front board. Fine. A complete year, twelve issues, with all wrappers bound into the rear of the book. # $125 MATZ, B.W., editor. The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers and Monthly Record of The Dickens Fellowship. Volume Four. London: Chapman & Hall Octavo. Publisher's red cloth gilt with facsimile Dickens' signature on the front board. Fine. A complete year, twelve issues, with all wrappers bound into the rear of the book. # $125

16 WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey With Dickens. Boston: HMCo First edition. Illustrated by Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Very good plus hardcover without jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Wiggin on the front endpaper. Also, a further note " I was the child and this my first journey into the great world" and initialed K. D. W, also on the front endpaper. # $125 (Children) DICKENS, Charles. Captain Boldheart. London: Constable and Company ca Reprint. Acceptable hardcover. Reprint. Published ca The book spine cover is missing, cover corners have chipping, the covers have minor soiling, front endpaper has ink writing, endpapers and a few pages have minor soiling. # $20 WARNER, Charles Dudley. Charles Dickens: An Appreciation. Newark, New Jersey: The Carteret Book Club Limted edition, number 91 of 100. Very good minus with crack down the whole of the paper on the spine good slipcase with missing panel side panel and a complete tear to a top seam. # $50 SMITH, F. Hopkinson. With Dickens and Thackeray in London. New York: Scribner's Beacon edition. Volume XXIII of a set. Very good in cloth with a lightly sunned spine. # $15

17 SMITH, F. Hopkinson. In Dickens's London. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Reprint. Corners and spinal extremities lightly worn, else fine, without dustwrapper as issued. # $45 DICKENS, Charles. The Seven Poor Travellers. UK: Palmer First thus. About Very good in wrappers. paperback Browning, light foxing. Cover faded, creasing, bumped, small tear on spine. # $50 WOOLLCOTT, Alexander. Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons First edition. Top corners rubbed through, thus very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Bookplate of Eva Humphries Turnbull and Archibald Douglas Turnbull on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author: "To his Aunt Eva with the compiler's compliments. October 1922." Eva Humphries was not Woollcott's aunt, but rather the best friend of his mother. Her husband took an avuncular interest in the young Woollcott, paying for his schooling, and keeping Woollcott's erstwhile father reasonably well employed. An excellent association. # $150

18 WOOLLCOTT, Alexander. Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons First edition. Corners mildly rubbed, old price on the front pastedonw, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. # $45 QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur. Charles Dickens and Other Victorians. New York: Putnam First edition. Bookplate else very good plus in a very good minus dustwrapper with internal tape repair to the spine. # $50 CROTHERS, Samuel McCord. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. The New York: Charles Children of Dickens. Scribner's Sons First edition. Black cloth gilt with applied illustration. Front illustration quite rubbed, and slight wear at the spine ends, a nice, very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. # $350 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Philadelphia: David McKay Company (no datecirca1925). Reprint. The Pocket Classics series. 24mo. 59pp. Fine in near fine edgeworn slipcase. # $20

19 DICKENS, Charles. Captain Boldheart and Other Stories in A Holiday Romance. New York: Macmillan Company First edition of this collection. Bookplate front pastedown, neat owner name on title page, some spotting to the spine, and foxing on the color plates and the facing pages, else very good in very good dustwrapper with applied illustration, and with slight tanning and some splashmarks on the spine. Scarce in jacket. # $75 DICKENS, Charles. Pickwick Papers. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, Limited (1929). Reprint. Fine copy. Front flap of the dustwrapper laid in, otherwise lacking the dustwrapper. # $18 DICKENS, Charles. Collection of Dicken's Novels. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [none]. Reprints. Set of twenty four volumes. All near fine, some with slight bumps to the top and the bottom of the spine or a touch of foxing to the front endpapers. # $500 DICKENS, Charles. The Works of Charles Dickens: 15 Volumes. New York: Books, Inc. [c.1930]. Cleartype edition. Reprints. Fifteen volumes out of a twenty volume set. Lacking volumes three, four, six, nineteen, and twenty. Very good with modest wear to the edges, volume fifteen is water damaged. Titles include: David Copperfield; Martin Chuzzlewit; Oliver Twist; Pickwick Papers; Edwin Drood/Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby; Little Dorrit; Sketches By Boz; Hard Times/Pictures From Italy; Bleak House; Dombey and Son; Child's History of England; Uncommercial Traveller/The Haunted House; Barnaby Rudge/Master Humphries Clock; and Our Mutual Friend. # $75

20 A Christmas Song From the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. Park Ridge, Illinois: F. R. Wilkinson Family Limited edition. This is an unnumbered copy of 110 printed in this edition. Very good pamphlet tied at the spine with cord. The covers are lightly soiled and the cord is slightly frayed. # $20 (DICKENS, Charles) DARTON, F.J. Harvey. Dickens: Positively the First Appearance. London: Argonaut Press Fine in fine, spine-tanned dustwrapper. # $125 DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Oxford: Oxford University Press Reprint. Two volumes. Near fine in very good dustwrapper some browning and a few chips to the spine; fair slipcase with missing top and bottom panels. # $100

21 LACKINGTON, James and Chapman, John. The Author's Wallet: Narrative of the Messrs. James Lackington, and John Chapman, , both of London; their Exploration and Discoveries concerning the Price Fixing of Books; with the testimony of Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Thomas Carlyle, Mr. Wm. Ewart Gladstone, Lord Macaulay, Lord Campbell and other distinquished men of Letters of the Rights of Authors and Their Readers, and the Fallacies of Price-Fixing. New York: R.H. Macy & Co First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Faint stains on front wrap, number stamp on first leaf of text, a very good copy. # $30 DICKENS, Charles. The Life of Our Lord: Written for His Children During the Years New York: Simon and Schuster First American edition. Neat gift inscription, else fine in very slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy. # $85 DICKENS, Charles. David Copperfield. New York: Heritage Press (1937). Reprint. Very good with a crowned spine, without a dustwrapper housed in a very good slipcase. # $28

22 (DICKENS, Charles). WAUGH, Arthur, et al.. The Nonesuch Dickens. Retrospectus and Prospectus.. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press First edition. Fine copy in blue cloth, uncut. Contains "Charles Dickens and His Illustrators" by Arthur Waugh, Hatton's list of original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens, a retrospective guide to the published works of Dickens, a variety of order information and specimen pages, this last separately bound in wrappers. # $65 DICKENS, Charles. Five Christmas Novels: A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man. New York: Heritage Press (1939). Later printing. Very good with general soiling to the boards and spine, endpapers have scattered stains, without a dustwrapper or slipcase. # $15 DICKENS, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby. New York: Heritage Press Reprint. Illustrated by Stephen Spurrier. Near fine in the original very good glassine dustwrapper with a browned spine, housed in a near fine slipcase. With the Sandglass laid in. # $30 DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. New York: The Heritage Press (1941). Reprint. Fine in boards as issued in slip case. # $45

23 DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. New York: The Heritage Press (1941). Reprint. Yellowing on spine, otherwise fine in boards as issued in slipcase. # $45 DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. New York: The Heritage Press (1941). First edition thus. Illustrated by William Sharp. Former owner's name front pastedown, else fine. # $17 CHESTERTON, G.K.. Charles Dickens, The Last of the Great Men. New York: The Press of the Reader's Club (1942). Book club edition. Very good plus with scattered spots to the endpapers and soiling to the top edge in a good dustwrapper which has been torn into two peices, with parts of the spine perished. # $12 (Anthology) DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Stories: *A Christmas Carol*, *The Chimes*, *The Cricket on the Hearth*. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company (1946). First edition. Illustrated by Howard Simon. Introduction by May Lamberton Becker. Near fine with light wear on the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. # $15

24 DICKENS, Charles. Dickens and the Carpenter: Six Letters from Charles Dickens to John A. Overs now in the collection of William M. Elkins, Esq., of Philadelphia: A souvenir of an exhibition of the Elkins Collection. Philadelphia: The Free Library Of Philadelphia First edition. 8vo. Near fine in staple-bound wrappers, lightly worn and faded at the yapped edges. Illustrated with black and white photographs of original Dickens letters now in the Elkins Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia. # $20 CRUIKSHANK, R.J.. Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England. London: Pitman (1949). First edition. Very light foxing to fore-edge, else fine in a very good plus dustwrappper with rubbing wear to the folds of the flaps. # $25 DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. New York: Simon and Schuster (1949). Inner Sanctum edition. Fine lacking dustwrapper. # $30 (Anthology) TARG, William, edited by. A Reader for Writers. New York: Hermitage House (1951). First edition. Owner name and light stain on the front fly, else near fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper. Contributors include: Anthony Trollope, Paul Gallico, Coleridge, John T. Winterich, Grant Richards, Thoreau, William Hazlitt, Voltaire, John Earle, Charles Dickens and Arnold Bennett. # $45

25 JOHNSON, Edgar. Charles Dickens His Tragedy and Triumph. New York: Simon and Schuster First American edition. Two volumes. Very good without dustwrapper. # $30 (DICKENS, Charles) NISBET, Ada. Dickens and Ellen Jernan. Berkeley: University of California University Press Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Garden City: The Literary Guild of America, Inc. (1953). Later edition. Very good minus with paint damage to cover and slight sunning to spine. # $20 WILLY, Margaret, edited by. English: Autumn, 1954, Volume X, Number 57. Oxford: For the English Association by Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press First edition. String-bound wrappers. Near fine. Contains: Dylan Thomas, : A Critical Appreciation by Hermann Peschmann; Charles Dickens and The Ruffian by K.J. Fielding, and more. # $25

26 (Children's) DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Thames Publishing [no date c1956]. Reprint. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel and light edgewear. # $30 (Children's) DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University [no date]. Reprint. Near fine with slight discoloring to the spine in a very good plus dustwrapper with two one inch tears to the front panel, a tear to the rear panel and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. A Herbert Strang's Empire Library edition. # $30 DICKENS, Charles. Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy. none: none First edition. Very good. No. 458 of 1200 copies. Spine ends are lightly worn. In otehrwise nice clean condition. # $10 DICKENS, Charles. Bleakhaus. Munich: Winkler-Verlag (circa 1959). Later edition. Fine less some previous owner's notations on the rear fly with flexible boards in very good, lightly soiled dustwrapper that is taped to the book. Text completely in German. # $25

27 DICKENS, Charles. American Notes and Pictures from Italy. (London): Heron Books (ca1960). Reprint. Top cover corner very lightly bumped and a hint of browning on top edge, else a fine copy bound in green leatherette with decorative gilt on front cover and spine, decorative end papers, and yellow cloth bookmark. # $20 DICKENS, Charles. Complete Works. (no place): Heron Books circa Anniversary edition, 18 volumes. Overall fine, less a couple volumes with light wear to the extremities. Without a dustwrapper as issued. Novels include *Christmas Stories*, *Great Expectations*, and *Oliver Twist*, among others. # $250 DICKENS, Charles. Dr. Marigolds Prescriptions. none: none First edition. Very good. Some light fading to spine edges. Ends are rubbed somewhat. Corners are bumped. Front pictorial board. # $15 DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. (London): Heron Books [c.1960]. Reprint. Introduction by E. Salter Davies. Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Two attractive volumes bound in green leatherette with decorative gilt on front covers and spine, yellow cloth bookmark, and decorative end papers. A touch of spotting on top edge, else fine. # $70

28 DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Heron Books (ca1960). Reprint. Introduction by Malcolm Elwin. Ilustrations by Luck Fildes. Top edge of back cover very lightly bumped, else fine copy bound in green leatherette with decorative gilt on front cover and spine, yellow cloth bookmark, and decorative end papers. # $20 DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. (London): Heron Books (ca1960). Reprint. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow with Original Illustrations. Two volumes bound in green leatherette with decorative gilt on front cover and spine, decorative end papers and yellow cloth bookmark. Near fine with a few tiny nicks in leatherette on crown of spine, slight dulling of gilt on spine, and some faint spotting on top edge. # $55 (Christmas) DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Tree. PA: Printed Letterpress Illustrated by Ret Abruzzi. Fine. Hardcover is a very nice clean copy, like new, #177 of 1300 copies. # $15 HUNT, Peter, compiled by. Eating and Drinking: An Anthology for Epicure. (London): Ebury Press (1961). First Edition. Introduction by Andre L Simon. Fine in nice, very good plus dustwrapper with two internal repairs. Contributions from many noted epicures including Arthur Conan Doyle, George Sainsbury, Brillat-Savarin, Charles Dickens, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, S.J. Perelman, and many others, with art by James Thurber, Ronald Searle, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Aubrey Beardsley. Ex-James Gabler. # $25

29 (Christmas) DICKENS, Charles. Stories from the Christmas Numbers. PA: Printed Letterpress Fine. Hardcover, nice clean copy, like new, #369 of 1300 copies. # $20 DICKENS, Charles. Excerpts from the Pickwick Papers - The First Days Journey and the First Evening's Adventures With Their Consequences. none: none Limited. Very good. #950 of Boards are somewhat yellowed. Around edges. Front pictorial board. # $20 DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket On The Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press (1967). Reprint. Fine without a dustwrapper, housed in a fine slipcase. With the Sandglass. # $22 COLLINS, Philip. Dickens and Crime. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1968). Later edition. Near fine with crease in back wrapper and sticker shadow on front wrapper. # $20

30 MARCUS, Steven. Dickens From Pickwick To Dombey. NY: Simon & Schuster Firstpb. About very good in wrappers. Cover has rubbing on both sides. Spine has wrinkles running the length. Edges and corners of cover are worn. Back cover has some slight discoloring. # $25 DICKENS, Charles. Excerpts From The Pickwick Papers. Philadelphia: Samuel A. Dalton Limited. Fine condition hardcover limited edition. #1162 of 1300 copies. # $12 DICKENS, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press Later. Fine in full grey leather with gold stamping and raised bands, all edges gilt, silk ribbon place marker, silk endpapers, bookplate (no name) on a blank endpaper. From the Collector's Library of Famous Editions. # $80

31 (Mystery) DERLETH, August. The Adventures of the Unique Dickensians. Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran First edition. Wrappers. Tiny owner name bottom page edges, and date stamps on title-page, else near fine. # $25 COSTILLAS, Pierre (George Gissing). Gissing's Writings on Dickens: A BioBibliographical Survey together with Two Uncollected Reviews by George Gissing from The Times Literary Supplement. London: Enitharmon Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Of 275 numbered copies, this is copy number 7. # $45 DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Garden City, New York: International Collector's Library [no date c.1970]. Reprint. Very good in simulated leather with gold stamping, an ink notation on the half-title page, lacking a dustwrapper. # $20 Charles Dickens. London, England: Victoria And Albert Musuem First edition. Very good, with an ink notation on the front endpaper, in wrappers. # $50

32 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicolas Nickleby. London: Scolar Press Facsimile edition. Edited by "Boz" with illustrations by "Phiz". 20 parts in wrappers, in slipcase. Reprinted in facsimile from the original parts of with an essay by Michael Slater. Slightest of foxing to the spine, still fine. # $150 DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan (1974). First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $30 VALLANCE, Rosalind selected and introduced by. Dickens in Europe. London: Folio Society First edition thus. Fine without a dustwrapper housed in a fine slipcase. # $30 DICKENS, Charles. Die Pickwickier. Munich: Winkler-Verlag (circa 1975). Later German edition. Text in German. Fine less some previous owner's notations on the rear fly with flexible boards in very good, lightly soiled dustwrapper that is taped to the book. # $20

33 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. [Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co. no date c. 1976]. Facsimile edition, a facsimile of the first edition. Corners a little bumped, facsimile notice tipped to front free endpaper, else near fine. Bookplate of award-winning children's book author Lloyd Alexander with his ownership Signature. Laid in is an autograph card (unsigned) from Alexander, presenting the book "from my collection." # $150 WEST, Paul. Gala: A fictional sequel to Words for a Deaf Daughter.. New York: Harper & Row (1976). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with light wear to the crown and corners. Inscribed by the author to the novelist Monica Dickens (granddaughter of Charles Dickens). The rear flap of this book quotes Dickens' earlier review of *Words for a Deaf Daughter* for *The Boston Globe*. Laid in is a photocopy of a letter from West to Dickens, asking her to review this book, as apparently *The Globe* had not received their review copy. An excellent association. # $250 MANKOWITZ, Wolf. Dickens of London. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. (1977). First American edition. Fine with a remainder mark in near fine dustwrapper with a few small tears around the extremities. # $16 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Four Staves. [No place]: (Privately printed for the friends of Starkey + Henricks Typographers 1979). illustrated by Charles Dougherty. Papercovered boards gilt. Small dent on rear board, else near fine. Wood engraver John DePol's copy with his bookplate. Card laid in noting that this keepsake has been donated to The Goudy Society in celebration of Frederic W. Goudy's 115th birthday. # $45

34 MACKENZIE, Norman and Jean. Dickens: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light soiling on the rear panel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. # $30 DICKENS, Charles. David Copperfield. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library (1980). Reprint. Fine in brown leather with gold stamping and four raised bands, all edges gilt, without a dustwrapper as issued. # $40 SIMPSON, David. Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 The Scholar Adventurer: A Tribute to John D. Gordan ( ) on the Eightieth Anniversary of His Birth. New York: The New York Public Library First edition. Printed wrapper with self-flaps. Short closed tears on spine ends, else fine. Six essays on life and literature on Charles Dickens, Elinor Wylie, Carl Van Vechten, and Dr. Albert A. Berg. Gordon was curator of The New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature from # $25

35 ALLEN, Michael. Charles Dickens' Childhood. New York: St. Martin's Press (1988). First edition. Light rubbing to the extremities else fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 Heritage Village Collection 1989 Including Dickens' Village, Christmace Carol, New England Village, Alpine Village, Christmas in the City and Little Town of Bethlehem. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Department 56 (1989). Second edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. # $18 DICKENS, Charles, Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. The D. Case or the Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood. New York: Harcour Brace and Jovanovich (1992). First US edition. Near fine with lightly bumped corners in near fine dustwrapper. # $15 DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996). Reprint. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $15

36 (STEINBECK, John, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway). Printed Books and Autographs Including 19th and 20th Century Literature: Featuring Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. New York: Christie's East First edition. Fine, lightly worn in stapled wrappers. Auction Catalogue. # $15 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol New York: and Other Haunting Tales. Doubleday (1998). Reprint. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $10