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Christmas Stories

by Dickens, Charles [et alia]

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Londion: Household Words, 1856. Half-Leather. First Thus. Original extra Christmas numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round bound without covers into single volume. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine reading: "Christmas Stories". Contains the following selections: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" 1856; Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 1863 [by Dicke ns & Wilkie Collins]; Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 1864 [Dickens]; Mugby Junction 1866 [Dickens]; Slaves of the Lamp 1871; and The Winning Hazard from the extra Christmas number of Chamber's Journal for 1870. Some rubbing to tips and top of backstrip. else a nice clean copy. Good+.. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Synopsis

The first edition of Dicken’s classic work A Christmas Carol, was published in 1843. It was a runaway success, and Dickens went on to write dozens of follow up Christmas tales over the next 25 years. Many of these stories are bundled in collections, titled Christmas Stories  or  Christmas Books. The first four Christmas books published after the success of A Christmas Carol were: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845), T he Battle of Life: A Love Story  (1846), The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time  (1848).  After the success of these stand-alone books, Dickens began to write and edit special Christmas-themed issues of Household Words, a twopenny journal he launched in 1850. He collaborated with well-known authors, as well as wrote his own stories. You can find multiple bound editions of these early stories from Household Words , such as "What Christmas Is" (1851), "The Poor Relation's Story "(1852), "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853), "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854), "The Holly-Tree Inn" (1855), "A House to Let" (1858), "The Haunted House" (1859), "A Message from the Sea" (1860), and "Somebody's Luggage" (1862).

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On Dec 14 2011, Patrick1952 said:
The first time I read [The Chimes], my Father was still alive and I remembered he enjoyed reading it too. Dad liked the character 'Trotty Veck', and who wouldn't? 'Trotty' was the typical Dicksonian 'decent poor'. I had bought a centennial edition of Charles Dickens complete works when I was 20. Most people don't realize Dickens wrote other fine Christmas stories besides his famous [A Christmas Carol]. The characters which seemed, 40 years ago a little fantastic in their personalities, don't seem so today when I am approaching 60 years of age. The morals that I found uplifting in the pages then are as much or more so today. This volume also includes [A Christmas Carol] and [A Cricket on the Hearth].

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Bookseller
Great Expectations Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
002297
Title
Christmas Stories
Author
Dickens, Charles [et alia]
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good+
Publisher
Household Words
Place of Publication
Londion
Date Published
1856
Keywords
CHRISTMAS NUMBERS, PERIODICALS, STORIES, CHARLES DICKENS, DICKENSIANA DICKENS FIRST EDITIONS
Bookseller catalogs
Dickens First Editions; Alibris2;

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