Dickens First Editions from Great Expectations Rare Books

Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1877. Hardcover, original green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gold. 96 pages. Printed in the Vest-Pocket Series, with their offerings printing in red on end-papers. A short play by Dickens, in collaboration with Mark Lemon, first performed in 1851 and which featured the author and Wilkie Collins in… Read more about this item

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. Hardcover, half faux vellum over brown paper covered boards. 90 pages. One of 483 copies printed for Harry Smith by the Bibliophile Society for their membership. Illustrated with two portraits of Dickens and holograph copies of letters. Printed on heavy, untrimmed Van Gelder stock, deckle edged. Housed in the original double… Read more about this item

Londion: Chapman and Hall, 1880. Full-Leather. Complete three volume set. Very Good+/No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in full red crushed morocco, with raised bands, elaborately gilt inner dentelles, deep maroon endpapers, and top edges gilt. Original cloth front cover and backstrip mounted on blank prelims, original rear cover bound in at rear, each volume. Facsimile autograph each volume as half-title.… Read more about this item

Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Original Cloth. First edition, fourth state of vignette title. Deep red horizontally ribbed cloth, the front and back covers are stamped in blind with double rul ed border interspersed with 12 floral designs on each cover. Front cover stamped in gilt with two cherubs about to do battle while mounted on wasps above a… Read more about this item

Londion: All the Year Round, 1867. Published as an extra number for Christmas in " All the Year Round," December, 1867. Bound in original blue wrappers. Penned almost entirely by Wilkie Collins, Dickens is credited with writing the Overture, parts of acts I and IV, and all of act III. Railway ad on rear cover. Very nice, with some… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. Full-Leather. The first separate edition of this tale published in book form,. Originally published in 1850 as a selection in "Household Words", and again in 1858 in book form in the compliation "Reprinted Pieces." No contemporary English edition accompanied the American publication and it was not until 1899 that a separate book editio n… Read more about this item

London, 1850. Full-Leather. A compilation of all the Christmas numbers published in Household Words from 1850 through 1867. Bound in full forest green polished leather with raised backstrip, and two leather spine labels: one green and one red. Backstrip compartmentalized and stamped with gilt flower motifs inside double rules, with flower motifs repearted on each corner of front and rear… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. Original Cloth. Original fine rib-grain white cloth stamped in gilt and in blind; pale yellow endpapers; binder's septuple flyleaves at front and back. Cloth is darkened and age soiled, with rear board showing several darker spots, and backstrip chipped at top and bottom. Interior foxed and text pages browned. Twelve full page illustrations on whiter… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1852. Hardcover. 264 and 234 pages respectively. Original heavily blind-stamped brown cloth from the Putnam's Popular Library series, containing two volumes complete in one. Two separate title-pages, the first reading-"Library of Entertaining Miscellanies Vol. II [rule] Home Philosophy. Complete in one Volume. New York: G.P. Putnam and Company, 10 Park Place 1853.… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846 Moderate blue fine-diaper cloth; front and back covers are stamped in blind with a triple line border. Illustated wth 4 vignette engravings by Samuel Palmer Adve rts and all text points called for in first edition. Light cover wear and corners lightly bumped. Old owners signature on front fly. A very good copy in… Read more about this item

Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1852. Three volume set of this early Dickens title, dated 1852, 1853, 1854 respectively. All first editions/first issues in original reddish brown cloth. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Backstrips stamped in gold lettering inside elaborate shield shaped ornamental design. Boards stamped in blind front and rear, and gilt motif of Alfred reading to his mother… Read more about this item

London: All the Year Round, 1862. This cloth bound volume contains several Christmas numbers from "All The Year Round," in addition to several other miscellaneous pieces. All issues are bound without their original wraps in black cloth covers which show heavy staining. Included are numbers 154 through 157 of "All The Year Round," [April 5, 1862 to April 26, 1862],… Read more about this item

Londion: Chapman and Hall, 1840, 1840. Three quarter blue leather over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spine decorated in gilt. This slim volume was orginally issued in fragile pictorial grey-green wrappers, which are now very scarce. The present binding is by Blackwell, with new marbled endpapers [to match paper on covers], and bound without ads and half- title as per… Read more about this item

Londion: Chapman and Hall Paper Coverd Boards. Hardcover, bound in paisley paper covered boards with red leather spine label. Original wrappers and advertisments for "Our Mutual Friend" bound together in book form. The text portion of each part has been excised. Lacking either one cover [front or rear] or some portion of advertising material called for by Hatton and… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First printing of the cheap edition, for Dickens first complete works, with a new preface penned by the author and dated June 22, 1850. Olive green blindstamped cloth with elaborately gilt spine. Frontispiece by C Stanfield. Printed in double column format. Fronitispiece badly foxed, else interior quite clean. No name… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Full-Leather. First American edition, bound in full tan calf with gilt spine and two red leather spine labels. Issued originally in white wrappers, this slim volume followed closely on the heels of Dickens death [9 June 1870] and Sala's sketch was one of the earliest posthumous biographies to see publication during the… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1885. Original Cloth. Two volumes edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard H. Shepard and bound in original blue cloth with gold lettering on spines. L ight rubbing to tips. Pale yellow endpapers. Occassional incidental age spotting throughout. A very fine set of the the first unsurpressed collected edition, preceded by the 1882 edition which was… Read more about this item

Londion: Richard Bentley, 1838. Half-Leather. First edition, first issue in three volumes with the Boz titlepage and the Fireside plate. Illustrated with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. R ebound in modern dark half green morocco bindings over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spines with leather spine labels. New end-papers and bound with half-title in volume I only, lacks… Read more about this item

Londion: Household Words, 1856. Half-Leather. First Thus. Original extra Christmas numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round bound without covers into single volume. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine reading: "Christmas Stories". Contains the following selections: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" 1856; Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 1863 {by Dicke ns… Read more about this item

New York: Maurice Inman, Inc., 1932. Limited edition, number 415/750 copies. 272 pages. Full maroon cloth in original reddish dust-jacket. Housed in original cardboard slipcase, which shows mild wear. Second edition. Revised and enlarged, with illustrations and facsimiles. Still an important reference for the collector of Dickens first editions, the present edition is the most sought… Read more about this item