Handsome Little Dorritt
Item 58463Little Dorrit.
Price: $800
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Read More Item Details for Little Dorrit Add to Wish List
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Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic whose work reached great popoularity during his life time and has continued to grow posthumously. He wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas, and hundreds of non-fiction articles and short stories. He pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction for his novels and novellas were published in weekly installments. His most notable works are: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
In Original Cloth
Item 55017Little Dorrit.
Price: $2,500
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition, with early issue points as per Smith (pp. 467-474 uncorrected, etc.). Read More Item Details for Little Dorrit Add to Wish List
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The First New York Christmas Carol
Item 54100A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
Price: $600
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Second American edition, later impression (Preface on verso of title page). Issued in wrappers, this unauthorized Harper's Christmas Carol was preceded by the Philadelphia edition (Carey & Hart) of the same year. Read More Item Details for A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Add to Wish List
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Fine Dickens Christmas Carol, Illustrated by Rackham
Item 366058A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Price: $6,500
London: William Heinemann, 1915. Rackham, Arthur. First edition, Deluxe Issue, one of 525 copies signed by Rackham. Notes Hudson: "[Rackham] is not usually remembered as an illustrator of Dickens, but A Christmas Carol was decidedly successful, for he contrived to adapt the tradition of 'Phiz' and Cruikshank to his own..... Read More Item Details for A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Add to Wish List
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Item 346691Printed Coutts & Company check, signed "Charles Dickens" in autograph, to George Wilson.
Price: $2,000
London: February 8, 1864. A printed, canceled, and endorsed Coutts & Company bank check, filled out in autograph on February 8th, 1864, and boldly signed by Dickens at bottom with a flourish, made payable to "Mr. George Wilson" in the amount of thirty-seven pounds, ten shillings. It is additionally endorsed..... Read More Item Details for Printed Coutts & Company check, signed "Charles Dickens" in autograph, to George Wilson Add to Wish List
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Letter from Dickens to his Servant
Item 346680Autograph letter signed, with his initials, to his servant John Thompson.
Price: $2,500
London: December 17, 1865. ALS from Charles Dickens to his servant of twenty years, John Thompson, informing him that Dickens wouldn't be able to attend a dinner with Lady Molesworth and providing instructions. A few weeks after the letter was written, Thompson was found to have been stealing money from..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed, with his initials, to his servant John Thompson Add to Wish List
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Item 346554Home Narratives: or, Stories from "Household Words"
Price: $100
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. Inclues the following: The cerf of Pobereze. -- The loaded dice. -- The ghost of the late Mr. James Barber -- The young Jew of Tunis. -- An excellent opportunity. -- The gentleman beggar. -- The other garret. -- The ghost that appeared to..... Read More Item Details for Home Narratives: or, Stories from "Household Words" Add to Wish List
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Item 334801Mrs. Peck’s Pudding, by Thomas Hood. A Humorous Paper, by Charles Dickens. And A Dramatic Sketch, by Sir E. Lytton...
Price: $400
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1845. Humorous anthology, largely drawing on early issues of Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany, including Mrs. Peck's Pudding. A Christmas Romance, by Thomas Hood; Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood, from an ancient gentleman, by favour of Charles Dickens; as well as The lay of the labourer..... Read More Item Details for Mrs. Peck’s Pudding, by Thomas Hood. A Humorous Paper, by Charles Dickens. And A Dramatic Sketch, by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer. With Illustrations by Darley Add to Wish List
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![Item #334613 The Mudfog Papers, etc. [Preface by Richard Bentley]. Charles Dickens](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/334613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650318426)
Item 334613The Mudfog Papers, etc. [Preface by Richard Bentley].
Price: $100
New York: Henry Holt, 1880. Read More Item Details for The Mudfog Papers, etc. [Preface by Richard Bentley] Add to Wish List
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Item 332626The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Price: $1,500
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First Edition, first issue, with engraved title dated 1850. The misprint “screamed” (for “screwed”) is uncorrected in this copy, at p.132, line 20. Read More Item Details for The Personal History of David Copperfield Add to Wish List
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WITH 1837 PROVENANCE FROM SIR ROBERT BARRIE
Item 332623The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Price: $3,000
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition mixed issue, with the half-title. Inscribed: "G.S. Atkinson from Sir Robt. Barrie 1837." on half-title Sir Robert Barrie KCB, KCH was a British officer of the Royal Navy noted for his service in the War of 1812. He was helped early in his..... Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Add to Wish List
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Item 32830Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act.
Price: $1,500
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1877. Reprint of the extremely rare privately printed edition of 1851. According to Eckel, "there are only three known copies traceable" of the original edition of this little farce which Dickens wrote with Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, for the Guild of Literature and..... Read More Item Details for Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act Add to Wish List
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Item 325019CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
Price: $500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Frontispiece (with illustration after Leech). First English collected edition. Read More Item Details for CHRISTMAS BOOKS Add to Wish List
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Item 323811Works.
Price: $2,500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1902-1903. The Biographical Edition complete in 19 volumes. Read More Item Details for Works Add to Wish List
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Item 321764Oliver Twist.
Price: $100
London: Thomas Nelson, nd. Read More Item Details for Oliver Twist Add to Wish List
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Item 316915The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens. A Bibliography.
Price: $300
New York: Maurice Inman, Inc, 1932. First Edition, number 139 of 250 copies signed by Eckel. Read More Item Details for The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens. A Bibliography Add to Wish List
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With the Buss plates
Item 315169The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Price: $1,250
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. This copy with the two suppressed plates by R.W. Buss, which in later issues are replaced with plates redesigned and etched by Phiz. Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Add to Wish List
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Item 315065Our Mutual Friend. The original 19/20 monthly parts.
Price: $1,500
London: Chapman and Hall, December, 1864 - Nov. 1865. Stone, Marcus. First Edition, in the original parts; first issue text, “pricipal” in no. 14. Our Mutual Friend contains the greatest number of inserted ads of all of Dickens' books in parts. The present copy is a made up set, and..... Read More Item Details for Our Mutual Friend. The original 19/20 monthly parts Add to Wish List
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![Item #313201 [Works]. Charles Dickens](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/313201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705002731)
Item 313201[Works].
Price: $4,000
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1873-1876. "This the best edition of my books is, of right, inscribed to my dear friend John Forster, biographer of Oliver Goldsmith, in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel, sympathy, and faithful friendship during my whole literary life" (dedication..... Read More Item Details for [Works] Add to Wish List
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‘Pickwick’ in Fine Onlaid Binding
Item 312928The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Price: $4,500
London: George G. Harrap & Co, [1930]. Brock, C.E. Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Add to Wish List
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Item 312248The Old Curiosity Shop.
Price: $100
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1864. From the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens. Read More Item Details for The Old Curiosity Shop Add to Wish List
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Item 312241Dombey and Son.
Price: $750
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Published in parts between 1846 and 1848, and illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), Dombey and Son follows Paul Dombey and his two children, Florence and Paul, and the trials and tribulations of the family and the shipping company Paul Dombey hopes to..... Read More Item Details for Dombey and Son Add to Wish List
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Item 267744Our Mutual Friend.
Price: $1,500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Stone, Marcus. First edition in book form. Commencing with the supposed death of John Harmon, who's body is found in the Thames, Dickens' tale of hidden identities, greed and love is underpinned by the theme of wealth and its evils. Our Mutual Friend is considered..... Read More Item Details for Our Mutual Friend Add to Wish List
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Item 265076Our Mutual Friend.
Price: $900
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition in book form. Dickens' tale of hidden identities, greed and love, all wrapped up with the theme of wealth and its evils. Read More Item Details for Our Mutual Friend Add to Wish List
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Item 258643The Poor Travellers; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; and Mrs. Gamp.
Price: $300
London: Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouveries Street, 1858. First Edition thus. Read More Item Details for The Poor Travellers; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; and Mrs. Gamp Add to Wish List
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