Search Results: Authors starting with D from Mac Donnell Rare Books

Dickens, Charles. COUNT LUDWIG AND OTHER ROMANCES... NOW FIRST COLLECTED INTO A SINGLE VOLUME. New York: Published by Henry G. Daggard, 1845. First edition. Original terra cotta printed wrappers, uncut. Some chipping at spine and faint stains in text, but an attractive copy of a very scarce collection of stories including Dickens' `The Lamplighter's Story' and `Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog' and stories by Thomas Moore, Douglas Jerrold, and W. H. Ainsworth. There was no English edition of this collection. OCLC locates only five copies (bindings unknown). This crudely printed pamphlet… Read More

Dickens, Charles. LITTLE DORRITT. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition, first issue with uncorrected text at pp. 467-74, signature 2B2 misprinted as "B2," etc. Original green cloth, gilt. Variant binding (no priority) with "LONDON MDCCCLVII" in gilt at foot, a variant not noted by Smith, but recorded elsewhere. Plates moderately browned (not foxed); text tight; covers much rubbed and marked, with many creases in spine; spine ends intact. The "octavo novels" have become extremely difficult to find in original cloth in decent condition, and nice copies of this work in this binding fetch five to ten times as much… Read More

Dickens, Charles. IS SHE HIS WIFE? Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First American edition, first state of binding with correct monogram. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. Mild rubbing at spine ends, a couple of stray marks but a very good bright copy of this scarce "comic burletta." In 1876 James T. Fields acquired the only known copy of the original 1837 edition and used it to produce this edition; his unique copy was destroyed when his library burned in December, 1879. A British reprint, itself rarely seen, appeared in 1883. This volume was part of Osgood's 102 volume vest-pocket series, which included… Read More

Dickens, Charles. MRS. GAMP AND THE STROLLING PLAYERS. New York: Privately Printed, 1899. First separate edition, one of 85 copies printed on handmade paper at the Gillis Press. Original vegetable vellum white boards, gilt, uncut. A hint of dust to white covers, else a very fine copy of this slender volume. Dickens began writing this sketch in 1847 to raise additional money in a benefit for Leigh Hunt who was destitute at the time. A prior benefit had fallen short of its goal, but before this piece could be finished Hunt received a pension that helped him considerably and the project was dropped. The American… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Eubank Dolls. MARK TWAIN DOLL [Hannibal, Missouri, n.d., circa 1940-1952] Handmade papier mache doll of Mark Twain, dressed in a suit, black shoes, ten inches tall, with flexible arms and legs (a feature that makes this doll especially attractive --Twain can easily be posed to stand on his head, sit on a bookshelf, hang from a light fixture, do splits, practice Yoga, etc.). Wilma Eubank Pulliam made dolls in Hannibal and sold them as souvenirs; they were among the first Mark Twain dolls ever made, and each was slightly different from the others.