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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Item 376295The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Price: $2,500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition, first issue. A desirable copy of Dickens' last book. Originally intended to be issued in twelve parts, starting April 1870, the serialization was interrupted after the sixth installment by Dickens' untimely death on June 9, 1870. This first edition of Drood in book..... Read More Item Details for The Mystery of Edwin Drood Add to Wish List
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First German Edition of A Christmas Carol
Item 376046Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte.
Price: $3,000
Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1844. Leech, John. First German-language edition, translated by E. A. Moriarty. The first German editions of Dickens’ first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection, and rare on the market. All of John Leech's illustrations for the original English edition, including the four wood-engraved text vignettes..... Read More Item Details for Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte Add to Wish List
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Tauchnitz Editions of Dickens’ Christmas Books
Item 376045A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. … Edition Sanctioned by the Author. [bound with:] The...
Price: $2,000
Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun, 1843; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848. First Tauchnitz editions. A brilliant Sammelband of the first Tauchnitz editions of Dickens's Christmas books, each set from advance proofs and issued essentially simultaneously with the first London editions. Read More Item Details for A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. … Edition Sanctioned by the Author. [bound with:] The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. … Edition Sanctioned by the Author. [bound with:] The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. … Edition Sanctioned by the Author. [bound with:] The Battle of Life. A Love Story. … Copyright Edition for Continental Circulation. [bound with:] The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. … Copyright Edition in 8s (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 in.; 150 x 112 mm) Add to Wish List
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In Original Cloth
Item 375243Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress.
Price: $12,500
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Cruikshank, George. First edition, first issue, earliest title page with “Boz,” with Fireside plate opposite p. 313 in vol. III. Dickens' second novel was intially published in monthly installments in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839, with each issue featuring an illustrative etching by..... Read More Item Details for Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress Add to Wish List
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Lovely Original Cloth
Item 367838Our Mutual Friend.
Price: $6,000
London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. First edition in book form. Dickens' last completed novel, a 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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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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Extra-Illustrated
Item 346871Dombey and Son.
Price: $750
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Read More Item Details for Dombey and Son Add to Wish List
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Item 346870Little Dorrit.
Price: $600
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Read More Item Details for Little Dorrit 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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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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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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IN PARTS
Item 316914The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Price: $4,000
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, in the original monthly parts, with some issues (1, 3, 4) in later issued states. The first two parts of Pickwick sold out quickly, necessitating reprints before even the third part was released. It gained in popularity such that parts one through eight..... Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 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 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 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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A Recommendation from Charles Dickens
Item 267671Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Dickens” with flourish), to Adolphus Trollope, on the blank of a letter from Mowbray Morris to...
Price: $5,500
Gads Hill Place: 24 November 1869. Mowbray Morris (1819-1874), manager of The Times newspaper from 1847 to 1873, wrote Charles Dickens on 23 November 1869, thanking him for the “recommendation of Adolphus Trollope. It is an infinite comfort to a man who is charged with the difficult task of fitting..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Dickens” with flourish), to Adolphus Trollope, on the blank of a letter from Mowbray Morris to Dickens concerning his recommendation of Trollope to The Times 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 253749Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte [with:] Die Sylvester = Glocken.
Price: $4,000
Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1844; 1845. First German-language editions, translated by E.A. Moriarty. The first German editions of Dickens’ first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection, and rare on the market. Read More Item Details for Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte [with:] Die Sylvester = Glocken Add to Wish List
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Item 247039The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
Price: $750
London: Chapman and Hall 186, Strand, 1844. First edition, first issue (with signpost with "100£"), bound from parts. Read More Item Details for The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Add to Wish List
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Item 246224The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.
Price: $150
New York: H.S. Nichols, [1914]. Facsimile of the rare and earliest issue done by H.S. Nichols. Read More Item Details for The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time Add to Wish List
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