The Works of Charles Dickens. Include: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, etc. by DICKENS, Charles [CRUIKSHANK; PHIZ; STONE; etc.]

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1910 (Circa). Reprint . Very Good. 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 21 cm). Dark green cloth binding. Top page edge gilt. Light vertical scuff mark to spine. Foxing to page edges and first and last few pages. Excellent solid binding. An attractive antique edition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 21 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xvi, 342

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1910 (Circa). Reprint . Very Good. 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 21 cm). Dark green cloth binding. Top page edge gilt. Scuff across front board. Small bump to upper corner of rear board. Foxing to first and last couple of pages. Excellent solid binding. An attractive antique edition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 21 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xx, 330

Nabu Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

J.B. Lippincott ; Chapman & Hall, Philadelphia, London; Virtue & Co printer, 1874. Hardcover. Good. [19th century printing in contemporary binding; Second illustrated Library edition] 15 volume set. Bound in 3/4 contemporary leather over marbles boards. Good bindings and covers. Minor shelf wear. Gilt spine compartments. All edges marbled. Illustrated with engravings by H.K. Browne, George Cruikshank, etc. Minor spotting. Included titles: Pickwick Papers (2 vol.), Barnaby Rudge / Hard Times (2 vol.), Sketches by Boz, Bleak House (2 vol.) Great Expectations, Little Dorrit (2 vol.), Tale of Two Cities, Edwin Drood, David Copperfield (2 vol.), American Notes / Pictures from Italy. <br> "Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition, containing, they contended, all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue, with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions, this… Read More

Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co, 1910. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend, all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks, occasional tear to a page in the margin (from opening the pages), and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall, very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations, which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall [and] John Camden Hotten, no date [circa 1870]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with small print. INSCRIBED in 'Sketches by Boz' by the owner and editor of The Globe newspaper, George C.H. Armstrong (1836-1907), to his close colleague W.T. Madge, with whom he would go on to establish 'The People' in 1882: 'Presented by the | Proprietor of the "Globe" | to Mr. W.T. Madge | as a token of respect | and acknowledgement of | his valuable services as | publisher, | Geo. C.H. Armstrong, | Jan. 1st 1872 | 110 Strand.' Contemporary red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching grained cloth over boards. All edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. Internally crisp and clean. Bindings toned to spines, with some moderate general wear, and… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1900. Very Good. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1900. Publisher's "Autograph Edition" with facsimiles of the author's signature preceding text of each volume. Thirty octavo volumes. Half-bound in red morocco over marbled boards; gilt decoration to spine; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Boards lightly edgeworn with minor chipping to extremities and a couple volumes with brief exposure to corners; mild patchy soiling and scuffing and heavier spine wear to Nickleby volumes. Bindings sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good and handsome illustrated set of Dickens' works.

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1890. Cruikshank ed. Hardcover. Very Good. [Fine binding] An attractive set. Limited Cruikshank edition, no. 64 of only 500. Complete in 45 volumes. Bound in 3/4 morocco over green boards. Gilt spine compartments, 5 raised bands. Top edges gilt. Spines slightly browned. Very light, intermittent, shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Marbled end sheets. Liberally illustrated with Cruikshank's plates. Contents:[1] American notes. Hunted down; [2]-[3] Barnaby Rudge; [4]-[6] Bleak house; [7]-[8] A child's history of England; [9]-[11] Christmas books and stories; [12]-[14] David Copperfield; [15]-[16] Dombey and son; [17] Edwin Drood; [18]-[19] Great expectations. Master Humphrey's clock; [20] Hard times; [21]-[23] Little Dorrit; [24]-[26] Martin Chuzzlewit; [27]-[29] Nicholas Nickleby; [30]-[31] The old Curiosity shop; [32]-[33] Oliver Twist. Pictures from Italy; [34]-[36] Our mutual friend; [37]-[39] The Pickwick Club; [40] Reprinted pieces; [41]-[42] Sketches… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.

New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.