A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, dated 1846 but actually issued on December 20, 1845. This is the tale about John... More
[a remarkably fine set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne [(beginning with the 6th part:) With Illustrations, engraved on Wood by J. W. Orr, from designs by H. K. Browne]. New York: Wiley and Putnam [(beginning with the 18th part:) John Wiley], 1846-1848. Twenty monthly... More
Containing: The Seven Poor Travellers. Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire. Hard Times... With a Portrait of the Author, engraved on steel. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, n.d. [1855]. Original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped, with spine vignette in gilt. First Edition so collected, first issue (in the dark brown binding... More
The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round for Christmas, 1865. London: Chapman & Hall, (1865). Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being the extra Christmas number of "All The Year Round." This was the seventh of the nine Dickens Christmas numbers (1859-1867); Dickens himself wrote only Chapters I, VI... More
Speech of His Mightiness on opening the second number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz." [London: Richard Bentley, 1837.] Four-page leaflet, disbound. First Edition, larger format, of this very scarce ephemeral Dickens piece -- which includes an illustration by "Phiz" that comprises the very first caricature of Dickens himself.~During 1836... More
[a handsome copy] A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition in cloth. HARD TIMES first appeared in America in the weekly "Household Words," from May through September 1854. Toward the end of that run, on August 8th, the American... More
From Dickens' "Household Words." New-York: Published by T.L. McElrath & Co., 1854. Original light tan wrapper with the imprint of Fetridge & Co., Boston. First American Edition, published on August 8, 1854. HARD TIMES first appeared in America in twenty weekly issues of Household Words, in May to September 1854... More
A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 2 pp preliminary undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fifth and last of Dickens's illustrated Christmas books (none had been published in 1847, when he had been busy working on... More
![[Letters on Public Executions]. Charles Dickens.](/pictures/thumb/12379.jpg?v=1507051280)
In: THE TIMES of London, November 14-21, 1849. Six complete issues of this newspaper, with supplements. On November 13, 1849, Charles Dickens (with his friend, the illustrator John Leech) witnessed in Horsemonger's Lane the public hanging of George Manning and his wife Maria (for the murder of her former lover)... More
Illustrated Edition. Two Volumes Complete in One. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, n.d. [1857]. Original half calf with marbled boards, endpapers, and page edges. First American illustrated octavo edition. The first Peterson volume of LITTLE DORRIT (in fact the first in book form anywhere) was Vol I of the two-volume duodecimo... More
![MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK [The Old Curiosity Shop + Barnaby Rudge]. Charles Dickens.](/pictures/thumb/12322.jpg?v=1507051280)
With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. 20 monthly serial parts, in original pictorial light blue-green wrappers. First Edition of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and of BARNABY RUDGE. After the publication of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY in monthly parts in 1839, Dickens decided to create a.... More
[a handsome copy] With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. [In Three Volumes.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1840/-41/-41. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines and front covers. First Edition in book form of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and of BARNABY RUDGE. After NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, Dickens decided that all... More
[a handsome copy] With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. [In Three Volumes.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1840/-41/-41. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines and front covers. First Edition in book form of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and of BARNABY RUDGE. After NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, Dickens decided that all... More
Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. In Two Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 36 pp undated Vol II ads. Original pink cloth embossed with flowers, with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition of this early Dickens piece, worked on after OLIVER TWIST and before NICHOLAS NICKLEBY -- during the time... More
An Extra Double Number of of All The Year Round. [New York: J. M. Emerson & Co., 1860.] Original self-wrappers, bound in at the rear of the February 1861 monthly issue, which has its own pale-yellow printed wrappers. First American Edition, "published simultaneously in London and New York " (according... More
A Farce in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood... More
Charles Dickens's New Christmas Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. Original self-wrappers. First American Edition of the fifth of the nine Christmas numbers (1859-1867) of Dickens's periodical "All The Year Round." Dickens himself wrote only the first and last (seventh) chapters. The inside rear wrapper bears ads dated December... More
The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round for Christmas, 1863. London: Chapman & Hall, (1863). Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being the extra Christmas number of "All The Year Round." This was the fifth of the nine Dickens Christmas numbers (1859-1867), and the first to be bound in... More
Now First Collected. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. 6 pp undated ads (plus endpaper ads). Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, issued as No. 114 in Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." THE MUDFOG PAPERS had originally appeared in America in the 1830s in the American Bentley's... More
and Some Uncollected Pieces. With Illustrations. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. Original terra-cotta cloth. First American Edition of the tale left unfinished at the time of Dickens's death in June 1870. In addition to DROOD, this volume includes James T. Fields's introductory "Some Memories of Charles Dickens," plus Dickens's... More
[with the leaves still unopened] With Illustrations [by Luke Fildes]. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September 1870. Six monthly serial parts [all that were issued] in original blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the monthly serial parts. EDWIN DROOD remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries: Dickens had... More
With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated Aug. 31, 1870. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition in book form. This remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries... More
Being The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round. London: Chapman & Hall, Christmas 1867. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being the last of Dickens's nine extra Christmas numbers of his periodical All The Year Round. Dickens himself wrote The Overture, Act III, and portions of Acts I and... More
With Numerous Illustrations by Cattermole and Browne. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. Original dark brown fine-diaper grain cloth, with spine lettering and vignette in gilt. First complete American Edition in book form. In 1840-1841 Lea & Blanchard issued THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (as the first novel within "Master Humphrey's Clock,"... More
[the American serial parts] [In 20-parts-in-19.] New York: John Wiley [Parts 1-11 plus Part 19/20; G. P. Putnam, Parts 12-18], 1849-1850. Original light tan wrappers. First American Edition in serial parts (one of two such editions). In 1849-1850 both Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia, and John Wiley / G.P. Putnam... More
