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Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc, 1988. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_buckram spine. Near Fine. Browne, Hablot K. "Phiz"; Cattermole, George; and others.. 6.4"x9.25" 525 numbered pgs. Maroon buckram over silver leatherette boards. Maroon letters on front and gold foil letters on spine. Includes Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading pamphlet. Afterword George Cattermole. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, Book plate inside front board, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1927. Inteira de Pele/Full -Leather. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º(190x130). 1 volume de XX-654-[2] pp. A reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the Younger. Full leather.

London; Humphrey Milford, 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, 337 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. Subjects: England Social life and customs 19th century ; Fiction.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1885. 1st edition in this form. Hardcover. Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Internally, bright and clean. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 314 pp. Subjects; Manners and customs. Historical fiction. English fiction 19th century.

London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1907. Vols. 8 & 9 of Dickens' Works, National Edition, title pages dated 1907, limited to 750 copies. Externally a little worn with faded spines, internally very good. Generously illustrated with traditional engravings laid onto thick paper stock, each accompanied by a captioned tissue. High quailty publication in sage green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, about 9.25" tall, top edges gilt, title pages in red and black, outer edges untrimmed. Some external rubbing, mainly to the extremities, light chipping to spine ends, good hinges, firm text blocks, clean pages with no names or other markings. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Poor binding. Front board and spine detached. Minor spotting. Page creasing. Sold with all faults. [4, iii]-vi, [9]-362 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, frontispiece, illustrations.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION in book-form. Complete in three volumes, bound as one. Large octavo (26 x 18cm). With in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Contemporary brown half calf, recently re-backed with the original spine laid over. Gilt titles to burgundy label on spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Quite a well-thumbed copy, gently toned throughout with some light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to original binding, now restored to an attractive, robust condition. Very good. First Edition in Book Form; originally a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens from April 4, 1840-December 4, 1841; Narrator Master Humphrey was a lonely man who lived in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique grandfather clock by the chimney-corner, and decides to start a little club, called Master Humphrey's Clock, where the members, including Mr. Pickwick himself, have a penchant for… Read More

Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1872. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover with gilt stamped title and illustrations is frayed at corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and overall in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Frontispiece protected by tissue. Pages are toned but clean and in very good condition. Illustrated in B&W. .

London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [circa 1910]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 370; [1], blank; pp.ii; 363; [1], blank. With introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. With the original illustrations throughout. Title pages printed in two colours. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in half deep red crushed morocco, with gilt titles to spines, raised bands, pink buckram sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents clean, faint spotting/toning to edges, bindings solid. A fine pair in attractive Edwardian-era leather bindings. One of Dickens' earlier works, chronicling the life and times of the beautiful and virtuous Little Nell and her Grandfather.

Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1842. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 362 p. : ill. Notes; Spine title: Curiosity shop. Transcription of added t. P. : The old curiosity shop. Originally started as a periodical ; contains the serial story of The old curiosity shop: p. 33-359. Subject: Dickens, Charles, (1812-1870) -- Curiosity shop --Periodicals Genre; Fiction.

London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets from the original triple-decker; an unrecorded variant. Octavo (26 x 17cm), 228 leaves, Page 2 is numbered 2-38, p.47 numbered 47-79, p.96 numbered 96-102, p.224 blank, as per Smith, p.307 reverts to number 1 (not in Smith). With eighty-three black and white textual engravings by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Brown ('Phiz'). Smith's later issue with Piccadilly address shown on an undated title page. In our copy the imprint is BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS, whereas Smith records BRADBURY, EVANS AND CO, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. He also notes that final page (224) is blank, whereas the present copy features a repeat of the imprint. Smith does concede the number of other one-volume issues from the stereos is uncertain. Recent half brown calf to style, old edge marbling from original/previous binding. Internally very clean, exterior unmarked. A fine copy. Walter E. Smith, 6A -see note 4.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes, quartos (25 x 17 x 9cm), pp.[2] iv; 306, pp.vi; 306, pp.vi; 426 [4]. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, with gilt-blocked clock design to upper cover (the clock hands indicating the volume numbers on each), white endpapers, volume three with edges marbled. A few minor marks with else contents clean, ink names to each volume (two of which are crossed through), cloth frayed to extremities, some bumping, gilt remains bright. Overall a very good set in the original cloth. First Edition in Book Form; originally a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens from April 4, 1840 - December 4, 1841; Narrator Master Humphrey was a lonely man who lived in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique grandfather clock by the chimney-corner, and decides to start a little club, called Master… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall [and] John Camden Hotten, no date [circa 1870]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with small print. INSCRIBED in 'Sketches by Boz' by the owner and editor of The Globe newspaper, George C.H. Armstrong (1836-1907), to his close colleague W.T. Madge, with whom he would go on to establish 'The People' in 1882: 'Presented by the | Proprietor of the "Globe" | to Mr. W.T. Madge | as a token of respect | and acknowledgement of | his valuable services as | publisher, | Geo. C.H. Armstrong, | Jan. 1st 1872 | 110 Strand.' Contemporary red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching grained cloth over boards. All edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. Internally crisp and clean. Bindings toned to spines, with some moderate general wear, and… Read More