The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club -

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Price-clipped dust jacket has some tears to it. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard. Fair. 1837. Hardcover. Book is cocked. Spine edges are worn, spine label is partly loose. Binding is cracked following the front free endpaper, front inner hinge has some small splits. Covers have some corner and edge wear and some small stains. Endpapers are foxed. Scattered pages have very slight or slight foxing. ; Ownership signature of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Nelson, signed S. W. Nelson on the front free endpaper. Part Second only. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, N.D., circa 1912. First Edition. Illustrated with 25 remarkable tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds with opaque lettered tissue guards, and with a colour vignette title page and colour illustrated endpapers. Thick 4to, publisher’s original bright crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, and with the fine gilt and black pictorial vignette on the upper cover, in the elusive original printed dustjacket. viii, 534 pp. Internally clean and crisp and in fine condition, the covers with some light soiling, but the edges and corners remain in quite nice condition, the gilt and black are both well preserved. ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND THIS A BRIGHT COPY. This fine gift edition of THE PICKWICK PAPERS, is handsomely illustrated with Frank Reynolds’ magnificent illustrations. On these colourful and energetic pages, the exploits and antics of Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, and Snodgrass come to life. For Dickens lovers, PICKWICK is… Read More

1836. [DICKENS, Charles]. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Original pictorial wrappers, housed in two gilt-ruled full morocco slip cases with inner cloth chemises. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836-1837. 20 Parts in 19. First edition in monthly parts. Collated against Hatton and Cleaver (pp. 3-88) the first ten parts are in later wrappers, blank on the inside. Part One lacks all advertisements; all plates are in the first state of the second Seymour; all the points for the text are for latter issue. Part Two: all three plates first state; p. 27, last line "was drawn out", p. 30 "wanderings" for "murmurings," p.33 "by God" not "everyman", p. 34 has phrase in brackets, p.36 no comma after "feet", lacks other first issue points. Part Three lacks all advertisements, has both plates "Drawn & Etched by R.W. Buss; lacks Address; lacks all first issue points. Part Four lacks all advertisements; both Plates 10 and 11 are second state or original plate; lacks all first issue text points. Part Five… Read More