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NY: Thomas Y. Crowell. good+. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1; 463 pages / 473pp; no publication date, probably around turn of the century; green patterned end pages; glossy b/w frontis with tissue guard; b/w glossy plates; top edge gilt; binding shaken; 7.75" tall; wear to edges of textured leather back strip & corners & burgundy cover with heavy gilt decoration & lettering on spine, author's signature reproduced in gilt on front; boards showing at corners; chips top of spine .

Hardback. New.

NY:: Pollard & Moss,. Very Good. 1885. Hardcover. Two volumes bound as one. With illustrations. A relatively early reprint edition. Thick octavo, bound in decorated green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine, floral pattern endpapers. Very good. .

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. 1st Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. large Octavo. Raymond F Houlihan. pp XVII, 272. 1st printing. An unread book in an as new condition slipcase. Number 1696 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. Signed by the Illustrator to the final page. Quarter bound in natural calf.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Hardcover. Good. 10 Volumes, sold together. Likely incomplete as a set. Ticknor & Fields, 1867-1868 illustrated editions. Blue cloth bindings with "The [Dickens's signature] Edition" in gilt on front board, gilt titling on spine. Full page illustrated plates by Cruikshank, Leech, Phiz, and others (16 in the Christmas Books/Boz vol., 10 in three others, eight in the rest). All volumes in good condition. A few partial separations/gaps between signature, but bindings on the whole are firm and fully intact; gilt titling/decoration remains bright and bold; light to moderate amount of wear to edges of boards, some fraying of cloth at spine ends; very faint dust smudging to cloth, some very minor toning to spines. A handsome group for your shelves, featuring (most of) his classic works. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1842. First American Edition. New-York: J. Winchester, Publisher, November 1842. Original self-wrappers, bound into very early plain blue wrappers. "First American Edition" -- second impression. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and (soon) to be confirmed in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography, this edition (12-1/2 cents) was published at 2:00 PM on Monday, November 7, 1842 -- just TWO HOURS before the "Brother Jonathan Extra" edition (12-1/2 cents) managed to get out on the streets. Harper got its edition (12-1/2 cents) out by early or mid-afternoon on the following day (Tuesday the 8th), and Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia had an edition (first 25 cents, then 12-1/2) on the streets by Wednesday the 9th. (L&B was the only one of these American publishers to have had a prior agreement with Dickens for publication in America -- but Dickens was so upset by the lack of an international copyright law, he forewent any such negotiations -- which is why none of these publishers had… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1852 and 1855. THE FIRST AUTHORIZED COLLECTED EDITION of the five famous holiday novels. It features a new preface by Dickens as well. Bound with the 1855 edition of AMERICAN NOTES. AMERICAN NOTES with a frontispiece reproduced from the first edition. CHRISTMAS BOOKS with a frontispiece reproducing John Leech's famous illustration of the dancing Fezziwigs. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter pebbled dark green morocco over marbled boards, the spine with gilt-tooled raised bands forming six gilt framed and decorated compartments, four with central gilt floral tools, two others gilt lettered and ruled, marbled endpapers, flies, and page edges. xiii, 175, [vii], 1-266 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy of these Dickens classics, rare in contemporary binding. THE SCARCE FIRST AUTHORIZED COLLECTED AND SINGLE VOLUME EDITION OF THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF CHARLES DICKENS COMBINED WITH AMERICAN NOTES. The text includes ‘A Christmas… Read More