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Odhams Press, NULL. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Two books in one. Red boards and backstrip. Gilt decoration on backstrip. Stamped decoration and stamped profie of author on front board. Boards and backstrip rubbed and marked. Some foxing. Text clean. No date stated. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, No. 102 Chestnut Street; (no date). Hardcover. Uniform Edition," very good- in brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on spine. Cloth is worn at corners and edges. Private library stamp, and different owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Spine is cocked, and one signature extends past the foredge of the page block. Contains Author's Introduction to the Third Edition (dated 1841). Contains 24 full page engravings by Yeager of the original Cruikshank illustrations.

T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1887 EDITION. Some very minor pencil marks, slightly tanned. Front end paper has writing and is loose. Some pages have edge tearing. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Back strip edge tears. Front hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 1st American edition. Cloth. Fair. George Cruikshank. 1st American edition "New Edition, Complete". A Fair copy. Tall 8vo., 268 pp., 20 plates. Text in double columns. Bound in publishers brown cloth with stamped pattern on covers. Spine has title in gilt. Top third of spine detached, but included. Covers show overall wear and soiling with tips rubbed and bent. Interior is foxed. This American edition contains "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble," and "The Pantomime of Life," by Boz, - sketches published by the Author since the May 15 London collection was issued. Philadelphia, August 1839.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. Hardcover. Good. . First American edition, without illustration. Volume 1 only. Plain boards with cloth spine, cover shows heavy wear and rubbing, some loss at the corners and spine ends, staining. Loose hinges, name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages shaken, lightly tanned, and foxed, with some minor tidemarks.

Philadelphia / Paris: Lea & Blanchard / Baudry's European Library, 1839 / 1844. (possibly) First American Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Binding broken; neatly detached text block, all edges marbled; 8vo, 2 volumes bound together; OLIVER TWIST, pp. [4] (title-p., list of illustrations, TOC), [13]-212, plus 20 (of 24) plates by George Cruikshank; IVANHOE, pp. [2] (title-p., blank), 223, with text printed in double columns. Text blocks (including plates) a little foxed and browned, but bright and clean overall. Nice early copies, worthy of rebinding -- Dickens may be the First American Edition.

Pesten (Pest): Emich Gusztáv, 1843. First edition. Two parts in one volume. In contemporary half cloth. Marbled fore-edge. With five woodcut illustrations. Pages yellowed due to ageing. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Two parts in one volume. In contemporary half cloth. Marbled fore-edge. With five woodcut illustrations. (6), 1-340.; (4), 1-373, (3) p. First Hungarian edition in this translation. Other translation is also from the same year (published by Hartleben.) .

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1838. First. Hardcover. Fair (Boards are heavily worn all over; spine strip is detached; back cover is detached; inner hinge is broken; personal library sticker on inside front cover; pages are untrimmed; text block edges are darkened; pages are heavily age-toned as expected, and foxed). Cruikshank, George. Brown linen boards with gilt lettering on the spine; 315 pp; illustrations. CONTAINS RARE, UNAPPROVED "Fireside Chat" Illustration by George Cruikshank, and the replacement illustration, "Rose Maylie and Oliver," bound in later editions, is laid-in. This an extremely rare, first-edition copy of "Oliver Twist," which contains the Cruikshank illustration, "Fireside Chat," which Dickens did not approve and had replaced. This illustration was replaced by Cruikshanks's "Rose Maylie and Oliver," in later editions; this is laid-in. This copy was published under Charles Dickens' pseudonym, "Boz." Amazing, rare opportunity to acquire a piece of literary history.

First full book edition
These three volumes published by Richard Bentley, the owner of Bentley's Miscellany, under the Dicken's pseudonym, "Boz"
Oliver Twist: or, the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
Oliver Twist portrays unromantically the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.
In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1838. 1st Edition. Leather. Very Good. George Cruikshank. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 3 volumes. First issue of the 1st edition. 12mo., [Vol.1]331; [Vol.2] 307; [Vol.3] 315pp., illustrated with 24 frontispieces and plates. Bound in full morocco, with boards single lined in gilt. The six compartment spines are decorated with a five leaf flower in each compartment, and title and volume number in gilt. Edge dentelles. a.e.g. Tips very lightly rubbed. Spines sunned, with joints lightly rubbed. Some loss of gilt to the spine's lettering. New paste downs and added end papers. Each volume's title page, and volume 1's half title page have been stamped with an oval stamp. These stamps show signs of having been attempted to be erased. It is my belief, when coupled with the new paste downs and end papers, that this set was formerly an ex-library set, with an attempt to remove all library markings. Each volume contains a laid in slip showing it was "Purchased at… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue title pages (author noted as Boz, no mention of Dickens], and with the suppressed "Fireside" illustration. 24 plates by Cruikshank. 20.6 x 13 cm. 3 volumes, very good in original cloth. 8 vo. In a handsome custom-made collector's case with leather spine and gold gilt lettering.

SIGNED on a laid in paper bearing only Dickens' clear signature, First Edition of his immortal Oliver Twist, the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. First published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book on November 9, 1838 before the serialization ended. 3 vols. Volume one with the plate list inserted after title (not found in all copies); Bound in later 19th century 1/2 calf over marbled boards, with marbled page ends. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, meeting all points as per Eckel and Smith, including the later canceled "Fireside" plate in volume 3. Smith 1, 4; Eckel 59. Ownership inscription of Grace Pfeifer to front endpapers. In 2008, Christie's sold a signed first of Oliver Twist, inscribed directly to the book for $229,000. Book #Cv2105. $10,000. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.