Set of Dickens's collected works from Pickwick Papers to Great Expectations minus 2 (Vol 1 Our mutual friend and Edwin Drood) plus The life of Charles Dickens by F. G. Kitton. 30 books by Dickens, Charles & Kitton, F. G - 1910

Read & Co. Books, 2020-05-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Read & Co. Books, 2020-05-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Read & Co. Classics, 2020. Paperback. New. 27 pages. 6.00x4.00x0.07 inches.

Paternoster Row, London, England: Elliot Stock, 1900. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Cute little copy, sturdy, tightly bound, of Frederic G. Kitton's intellectual biography and bibliography of the "minor writings" of Charles Dickens. An apparent First Edition, though not so stated. Bound handsomely in a short hardcover format, measuring 4 3/4" x 7" in width and height, respectively. Olive-drab cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, bevelled edges, scuffing to and rubbing of spine head and foot, rubbing of gilt lettering at spine, but lettering to front cover still fine, as is the publisher's gilt owl logo to front cover. From the series The Book-Lover's Library, edited by Henry B. Wheatley. Scattered pencil notes, else clean and relatively bright, though moderately toned of endpapers front and rear, chipping thereto, too. Rough-cut fore-edges. A valuable checklist for Dickens lovers everywhere. xi, 1-260 pp.Member, I.O.B.A.,… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 1900.. 1900.. Very good. - Small octavo, green cloth titled in gilt. Bumped & rubbed. 260 pp. The rear hinge is just starting. Very good. <p>First edition.

"The Poems and Verses of CHARLES DICKENS" - Collected and Edited with Biographical Notes by F.G. Kitton. 1903 1st edition; Harper & Brothers; New York and London. The book features a frontispiece illustration of "Charles Dickens, His Wife & Her Sister" (with a tissue guard). The contents are grouped into the following categories: The Village Coquettes (1836); The Lamplighter (1838); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Examiner (1841); The Patrician's Daughter (1842); The Keepsake (1844); The Daily News (1846); Lines Addressed to Mark Lemon (1849); The Lighthouse (1855); The Frozen Deep (1856); The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)...please see the photos for the complete list.Condition:Clean covers and spine. There is a small scuff near the left edge of the back cover, and a tiny ding/dent near the center of the spine (neither penetrate the cloth). Sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no loose pages. The paper has split at the hinge between the front end paper and half title page. Both covers are firmly… Read More

London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1912. Published 1912. The Works of Charles Dickens, Standard Edition, Volume XX. Attractively bound in half warm brown leather over tan cloth, color frontis, many additional black and white plates printed on a parchment colored background, 8.25" tall. Some expected edgewear and rubbing, light smudging and spotting to the cover cloth, good hinges, sound text block, foxing to half-title, clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Methuen & Co., 1899. Hardcover without dust jacket, later 1904 printing of this assumed First Edition thus, viii + 495 pages (Chapters XXVIII - LVI) including 12 pages of "Notes Chiefly Topographical" and 12 full page llustrations, plus a 40-page "A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Company: London, 36 Essex Street, W. C." dated September 1904; also please note that while I have referenced an Introduction, it is actually included in Volume I, not this Volume II;---elegant book in red cloth covers with Rochester Edition embossed on front cover, very bright and clear gilt spine lettering and decoration to spine, top edge also in gilt, hardly a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, foxing spots to fore edge but oddly to last quarter only from about page 388 to end with barely visible penetration to the outer margins of some pages, free front endpaper torn from book, otherwise very gently used, tight in… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Methuen & Co., 1899. Two hardcovers without dust jackets, later 1904 printings of this assumed First Edition thus; elegant books in red cloth covers with Rochester Edition embossed on front cover, somewhat faded but still clear gilt spine lettering and decoration to spine, top edge also in age toned gilt; the astute reader will also notice that both books have a Chapter XXVIII of 26 pages in Volume I and 12 pages in Volume II, each with a different text;---Volume I, xxiii + 487 pages (Chapters I - XXVIII) including the 11-page Introduction, a 1-page Biographical Note, 17 pages of "Notes Chiefly Topographical" and 12 full page llustrations, plus a half title page (see note below);---only traces of shelf wear to bottom edges and corner tips, gentle bumps to spine ends, bottom edge foxed and age darkened to a dark grey, fore edge somehat less, further light to moderate foxing to numerous scattered pages (mostly in this volume spots in the outer… Read More

Gresham Publishing Company 1912. VERY HEAVY 20x VOLUME SET, octavo half bound grey/brown cloth boards & brown leather spines, gilt lettering to spines, illus. (colour frontispieces and further illustrations within each volume), VG- to VG+ (light soiling and scuffing to boards, generally moderate to heavy rubbing, scuffing and chipping to leather of spines, slight splitting to spine of vol. 9, moderate splitting & cracking to spine of vol. 10, small chip to spine of vol's. 11, 13; light to moderate foxing within)