Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. viii,[9]-204pp. Original cloth and boards, printed spine label. Boards a bit edgeworn, label slightly eroded but quite legible, two early ink ownership signatures on preliminary advert leaf, moderate foxing, but a very good copy of a scarce book. First U.S. edition thus, reprinting the.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Binding worn, joints mended, some restoration to spine, front binder's free endsheet cracking at gutter; just a sound copy. First edition. An uncommon collection, containing fifteen of Dickens' articles, including some well-known pieces: "A Curious Dance.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. vii,[4],95,[5]pp. Crimson cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Illustrations. Cloth a bit handsoiled, with quarter size spot on upper cover and some darkening to the spine, very slightly shaken, adhesive gold star in corner of front pastedown;. First edition, with the first form of.....
New York: The Macmillan Company. 1932. [10],91,[3]pp. Crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrations. Small spot on fore-edge, endsheets tanned, otherwise very good, without dust jacket. A photo-offset reprinting of the original 1876 edition, prepared in observance of the Lewis Carroll Centenary.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. Small octavo. Reddish cloth, gilt extra, a.e.g. First edition. A tight, internally clean and fine copy, in an early fleece lined folding cloth case, the lining of which has caused some bleached mottling to the cloth color.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Red cloth, decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Frontis and illustrations by John Tenniel. Cloth handsoiled and rubbed, inner hinges cracking, spine shows repair to cracked and frayed lower joint, some foxing and spotting to half- title, gold foil star on pastedown, otherwise internally very good. First.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Red cloth, decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Frontis and illustrations by John Tenniel. Cloth handsoiled and rubbed, spine extremities frayed, early gift inscription on half-title, inner hinges cracking; a well-read, but generally sound copy. First edition, first printing, with 'wade' for 'wabe' on p.21.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Gilt decorated cloth. Frontis portrait, illustrations. First edition. Faint offsetting to prelims, spine darkened, lightly soiled, touch of wear to extremities, but a very good copy.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Gilt decorated cloth. Frontis portrait, illustrations. First edition. Faint offsetting to prelims, spine slightly darkened, a few faint spots to upper board, but a very good copy.
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892. Two volumes. Original pictorial cloth, edges untrimmed. Plates. Some foxing to the endsheets, former owner's neat, small blindstamp on title-page of each volume, else a very good set in a cloth slipcase (spine darkened and edges dustmarked). From the collection of Mrs.....
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. xi,447pp. Quarto. Vellum backed polished buckram, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontispiece. 121 illustrations, and 6 pencil studies by the author printed in facsimile. Spine a bit darkened and soiled, endsheets a shade tanned, a few minor smudges, otherwise very good. First illustrated one-volume British edition.....
London & New York: Harper & Bros. 1898. Large, thick quarto. Half vellum and cloth. Plates. Vellum a bit soiled, edges sunned, but a good copy. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 numbered copies printed on large, handmade paper, specially bound. The author's last novel, a romantic fantasy in.....
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood / T. Cadell, 1824. Three volumes. Old plum polished calf, gilt spines and labels. Half-title in each volume. Front binder's free endsheet excised from first volume, upper inner hinge of volume two cracking (but sound), a few gatherings a bit extended at fore-edges, some foxing.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1829. Three volumes. [4],318,[2];[4],[3]- 307,[1];[4],[3]-328,2,[2]pp. Octavo. Modern boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Half-titles and ads bound in. Bookplate in each volume, very occasional light foxing, tiny ink smudge on title of third volume, else a very good set. First edition of this historical narrative, thinly concealed as.....
Alexandria [Va]: Published by Cotton and Stewart, 1805. Two volumes. 12mo. Three quarter 19th century calf and marbled boards. Edges a bit rubbed, some modest scattered foxing and spotting, one closed marginal tear with no losses. A very good set. First Alexandria printing of Godwin's novel, one of two American.....
London: Saunders & Otley, 1829. Three volumes. Old three quarter calf and boards, with what are likely somewhat later gilt labels. Extremities worn, with one board neatly detached, bound without half-titles, one signature in third volume starting. Just a good set, otherwise clean and sound. First edition of the Irish.....
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1866. Original cherry red cloth, heavily decorated in gilt. Spine just a trifle faded and a touch rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition, consisting of prose sketches reprinted from ALL THE YEAR ROUND, with permission from Charles Dickens. A presentation copy from.....
London: David Nutt, 1901. Large octavo. Original blue-gray paper boards, printed spine label. Label rubbed, small chip and tear at toe of spine, boards rubbed and a bit soiled at fore-edges, internally about fine, unopened. First edition, limited issue. Copy #1 of twenty copies printed on large, handmade paper, signed.....
London: [Privately] Published by William Heinemann, 1901. Single octavo signature, folded to make 16pp., untrimmed and not sewn. Outer pages dust-soiled around perimeter, a few spots of foxing, otherwise very good. First edition of the second part of the 1899- 1901 version, privately printed for the author as a proof.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. Three volumes. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt extra, gilt labels. First edition. Binding rather rubbed, but sound, foxing to prelims and terminal leaves, bound without half-titles, ads and errata; just a good fill-in set.
Cambridge & London: Macmillan and Co., 1859. xi,[1],228,16pp. Small octavo. Blue cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, a.e.g. (the variant with the lower board stamped only in blind). Double-spread pictorial title and illustrations by Richard Doyle. First edition, with the earliest textual readings on p. 6. Spine extremities frayed, with closed.....
Cambridge & London: Macmillan and Co., 1861. Three volumes. xii,319,[1], plus 24pp. catalogue; viii,[1],338,[1]; vii,[1],309pp. plus terminal blank. Original publisher's straight-grained blue cloth, pale pinkish-toned endleaves. Collector's bookplate in each volume, spine extremities a bit worn, with old but careful restorations at two crowns, and short splits at toes of.....
London: Whittaker & Company, 1842. xvi,477,[3]pp. Octavo. Stoutly bound in early 20th century library buckram, bookplate, pockets and stamps of a defunct mercantile library, pencil erasures. Unlovely, but sound, with the half-title and terminal adverts. First edition of this uncommon and archly anti-Catholic novel, "By the author of THE LUDDITE'S.....
Dublin: William Curry, Jr. and Co., 1828. 359pp. 12mo. Contemporary olive calf, boards decorated with a blindstamped basket-weave pattern, gilt label. Frontispiece. Sone rubbing to joints, scattered foxing, browning and spotting; a good, sound copy. First edition. "A controversial story of an anti-Catholic kind" - Brown. OCLC locates 9 copies.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. Dark olive cloth, decorated in black and gray- green, spine lettered in gilt. First edition, trade issue (there were also two hundred copies on large paper). Inner hinges cracking slightly, a couple marks to lower cover, scattered foxing, else very good.
