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Christmas Stories from "Household Words" & "All the Year Round": With Eight Illustrations by A. Jules Goodman
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Plano, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Attractive leather-bound illustrated edition of Dickens' work. Contains 21 short stories (not "A Christmas Carol"). Dark green leather limp bound cover with gilt stamping on spine. Decorative endpapers. Printed on "India paper," i.e. thin tissue-like paper. Text block has gilt top. Built-in green ribbon bookmark.
PON on bookplate on front endpaper, dated 1917.
Cover has wear and bumping, particularly on top and hinges of spine. Small writing on FFEP. Endpapers are age tanned. Small stains on text block. One printer's sheet was apparently a different kind of paper, so those pages are age tanned while the rest are not. Ribbon bookmark is frayed.
PON on bookplate on front endpaper, dated 1917.
Cover has wear and bumping, particularly on top and hinges of spine. Small writing on FFEP. Endpapers are age tanned. Small stains on text block. One printer's sheet was apparently a different kind of paper, so those pages are age tanned while the rest are not. Ribbon bookmark is frayed.
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).
Read More: Identifying first editions of Christmas Stories from "Household Words" & "All the Year Round"
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- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G22
- Title
- Christmas Stories from "Household Words" & "All the Year Round"
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- A. Jules Goodman
- Format/Binding
- Leather limp bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- The Oxford India Paper Dickens
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Humphrey Milford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. (before 1917)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dickens, christmas, oxford india paper, goodman
- Bookseller catalogs
- Works of Charles Dickens; The Oxford India Paper Dickens; PWK Stories;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
PWK Books
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Plano, Texas
About PWK Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Limp Bound
- A book bound in a flexible leather or cloth. The covering material is not affixed to boards, as are traditional hardcover books....
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