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Valentine & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 121 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding is shaky, plate to page 64 detached but still present. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Sticker to front pastedown. Pencil inscription to half title page. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed.

Edinburgh: Valentine & Sons, Ltd. Hardback. Good. Undated hardback edition, c.1907, with no jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - green cloth boards lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions - owners name and address to front end paper with gift inscription dated Xmas 1907; gilt upper page ends slightly dust dulled, text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London: Bradbury & Evans/john Murray/John Cassell, 1858. Book. Good. Hardcover. DICKENS, Charles: The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs Gamp (1858). First Edition: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. Bound (second in volume) with: MAUREL, Jules: The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions and His Writings. With an Introduction by Lord Ellesmere (1853). Third Edition, Enlarged: John Murray, 1853 & WALLACE, Robert: The History of the Steam-Engine, from the Second Century Before the Christian Era to the Time of the Great Exhibition (1852). First Edition: John Cassell, 1852. Three volumes bound as one in late C19th red leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers. Leatherwork a little scuffed, boards grazed, undated inscription on verso of front free endpaper. good. Dickens's title -- a short miscellany, published for the Christmas market -- was originally issued in green paper wrappers. The three titles in this volume seem… Read More

Chapman and Hall, 1864. Softcover. Fair Condition. Green printed wrapper, lacks frontispiece Size: Small Octavo. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. slight wear and bumps to corners. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 19th century; .

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition thus, published as part of the series of “Cheap and Uniform Editions of Mr. Dickens’s Christmas Books” by Bradbury & Evans. Sixteenmo. 114, [1, ads], [1, blank] pp. Original printed green wrappers bound in at rear. Full crushed green morocco by Riviere with triple gilt rule borders, gilt spine and turns-ins, burgundy endpapers. Front cover needs to be rejointed. A very clean and attractive copy. The Kenyon Starling-William Self copy with both their bookplates. “Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn” was a Christmas story written for a special issue of Dickens’s Household Words, and “Mrs. Gamp” is an excerpt from Martin Chuzzlewit. Gimbel D31.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. Softcover. Fair. First "reading" edition. Small octavo. 114,(1)pp. Original green wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers quite soiled, some erosion to the extremities of the spine, a fair only copy. An edition of these works prepared for bookstores and on the occasions of Dickens's public readings.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. Paperback. Fair. 6.5" by 4". None. The first reading edition of these three tales by Charles Dickens, charming festive tales by the eminent author. The first "reading edition" of this work, the rarest of Dickens's five reading editions.Containing three charming festive tales by Charles Dickens.'Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn' had previously appeared in Dickens's 'Household Works', while 'Mrs. Gamp' is an excerpt from 'Martin Chuzzlewit'.The 'reading editions', edited by Dickens and sold in uniform green wrappers, were sold at bookshops and in large numbers at Dickens' popular public readings, with with he toured Britain and the States. With one page of publisher's advertisement to the rear.Collated, lacking the title page. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, wraps are detached but present. Edge wear to the wraps, with larger chips to the extremities of the front wrap, and a smaller chip to the head of the rear wrap. Large tide… Read More

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 114, [2, Ads] Pp. 6 25/32" Tall. Full Green Crushed Morocco With Gilt Edge Ruling And Lettering With Multiple Ruled Compartments, All Compartments Ornately Gilt, Ornate Gilt Designs On Dentelles, Finely Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Bound By Riviere With Their Stamp On Inside Of Front Cover. Original Green Wrappers Bound In At Rear. Covers And Spine Bright, Clean, Unfaded, No Staining, Light Wear At Corners, But Front Board Neatly Detached (Can Be Repaired With New Cords). 2" X 1 1/2" White Paper On Front Pastedown, Remains Of Old Bookplate, With No Damage To Marbled Endpapers.

1862, 1868, 1899. . Chapman and Hall. London. Five Volumes bound in one. Small 8vo. Half maroon calf gilt, contrasting labels. Green boards, marbled page edges. Extremities of covers worn and slightly rubbed. Inner hinge slighty visible, occasional foxing and browning, some pencil bracketing to A Christmas Carol only, otherwise a clean and sound collection. A Christmas Carol is undated but circa 1868, The Chimes is 1868, The Cricket on the Hearth is undated, Little Dombey is 1862 and The Poor Traveller & Mrs. Gamp is 1869.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858 . First edition. Paperback. Good Only. 7.5" by 4.5". None. The first reading edition of Charles Dickens's christmas tale, bound in the publisher's original paper wraps. The first "reading edition" of this work, the rarest of Dickens's five reading editions.'Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn' had previously appeared in Dickens's 'Household Works', while 'Mrs. Gamp' is an excerpt from 'Martin Chuzzlewit'.The 'reading editions', edited by Dickens and sold in uniform green wrappers, were sold at bookshops and in large numbers at Dickens' popular public readings.With a publisher's advertisement to the rear.A charming collection of festive tales from Charles Dickens. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Significant losses of paper to back strip from a spill burn. Light discolouration to perimeters of front wrap. Scorch mark to head of rear wrap, with fairly significant loss. Faint pencil inscriptions to verso of front wrap. Internally, binding slightly tender. Pages… Read More

London: Bradbury and Evans,, 1858. First reading edition, the rarest of the five reading editions. The reading editions, edited by Dickens and sold in uniform green wrappers, were sold at bookshops and in large numbers at Dickens' public readings."The scarcity of these books have caused fairly high prices to prevail..." (Eckel). With the bookplate to the inner box of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881-1963), son of the governor of Windsor Castle. Octavo. Original green wrappers, printed in black. Housed in a custom brown solander box. Spine a little chipped, slight soiling to wrappers. A very good copy in the original wrappers. Eckel p. 215; Gimbel D31.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. First edition. Superb full green crushed morocco with gilt edge ruling and lettering with multiple ruled compatments, more ornate gilt designs on dentelles by Zaehnsdorf [signed, "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1896" in publisher's stamped letters, bottom verso of front endsheet]. Original bright green printed wrappers bound in place, i.e. entire book bound together as a unit. A superb early Zaehnsdorf binding in near fine condition; contents near fine.