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Tauchnitz Editions of Dickens’ Christmas Books
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).
Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun, 1843; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech, each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century purple cloth gilt; spine faded. A bit of scattered foxing. Todd & Bowden, Tauchnitz A1Ab, A3a, A5a, A6, A9a.
Item #376045
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.
