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FLEET STREET ECLOGUES
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FLEET STREET ECLOGUES

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1893. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition, which according to the limitation page consisted of only 300 copies (though the book does not seem as scarce as that). The title comes from Davidson's membership in the Rhymers' Club (Yeats et al.), which met regularly at the Cheshire Cheese public-house on Fleet Street. This copy, complete with the errata slip, is in fine condition except for almost-imperceptible cover soil. Nelson 50; Krshnmrti 174.
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BARNABY RUDGE; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

BARNABY RUDGE; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

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1841. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Complete in One Volume. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. First Separate Edition. After NICHOLAS NICKLEBY was published in monthly serial parts with separate plates in 1838-1839, Dickens decided that his future novels would be published in weekly serial parts that included the illustrations within the text -- loosely connected under the title of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. He began this project in April 1840 with his tale THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP; after forty-plus parts he completed that tale, and swung into the beginning of BARNABY RUDGE. In November 1841, after a total of 88 weekly parts, BARNABY RUDGE was complete. During this serialization, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK (containing both novels) was also published in three volumes, one at a time; after serialization (in December 1841), each novel was also published separately in one volume, as with BARNABY RUDGE here. This is why the pagination of… Read More
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DICKENS' NEW STORIES [first U.S. edition of The Seven Poor Travellers]

DICKENS' NEW STORIES [first U.S. edition of "The Seven Poor Travellers"]

by Dickens, Charles

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1855. Containing: The Seven Poor Travellers. Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire. Hard Times... With a Portrait of the Author, engraved on steel. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, n.d. [1855]. Original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped, with spine vignette in gilt. First Edition so collected, first issue (in the dark brown binding with spine vignette in gilt, "T.B. Peterson" at the foot of the spine, and 102 Chestnut Street as the title page address). Although the volume consists of six works "by Dickens," the last three are not ("Lizzie Leigh," "The Miner's Daughters" and "Fortune Wildred"). The first two pieces in the volume, which really do involve Dickens, are "The Seven Poor Travellers" and "Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire": these were the "Extra Christmas Numbers" of Dickens's periodical Household Words for 1854 and 1853 respectively. "Nine New Stories" is the American title for "Another Round of Stories": of the stories, Dickens himself wrote "The Schoolboy's Story" and "Nobody's Story."… Read More
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THE VILLAGE COQUETTES

THE VILLAGE COQUETTES

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1878. A Comic Opera. In Two Acts. The Music by John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, 1836 [but ca. 1878]. Original printed self-wrappers. This is the ca. 1878 facsimile reprint of the 1836 first edition of Dickens's first play to be published -- which by 1878 was already a rare item. It is identifiable by the "A Facsimile Reprint" on the title verso, but also by the width of "Richard Bentley," reduced to 2-3/8 inches. Spine deftly restored but this is otherwise a fine copy with unopened leaves. Podeschi (Yale) B39; see Carr (UTexas) B526; Eckel pp 157-158.
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CHARLES DICKENS AND MARIA BEADNELL

CHARLES DICKENS AND MARIA BEADNELL

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1908. Private Correspondence. Edited by George Pierce Baker. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1908. Original grey paper boards with parchment spine and corners, in original two-piece slipcase with spine label. First Edition, limited to 493 copies for Bibliophile Society members only (preceding the so-called "Bixby Edition" of the same year). Maria Beadnell, the first love of the young Charles Dickens during the years 1830-1833 (her father prevented the match), became the model for Dora in DAVID COPPERFIELD; in 1855 she contacted him and they secretly met without their spouses, but Dickens, surprised at how much she had changed, subsequently based the less-than-flattering Flora Finching of LITTLE DORRIT upon her. This is an as-new copy, in the original two-part slipcase (which has some wear at one corner). Podeschi D164.
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The Life and Adventures of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
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The Life and Adventures of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT

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1844. With Illustrations by Phiz. New-York: published by Harper & Brothers, 1844. 2 preliminary pages of undated ads. Original vertically-ribbed blind-stamped purple-brown cloth. Very early American edition (second, by five days). While the UK edition was being published in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, Harper published the novel in seven serial parts (six consisting of three UK parts each, followed by the seventh consisting of Part 19/20) -- issued irregularly between March 1843 and July 1844. Harper's final part was issued on July 22nd, and three days later (the 25th) they came out with the same leaves bound in cloth (as here), priced at $1.00 -- containing the same 14 plates, in seven facing pairs as had appeared serially. But J. Winchester of New York, after running the novel serially in his monthly "The New World" magazine, came out with his edition, bound in wrappers and with no illustrations, on July 20th -- priced at just 25 cents, which Winchester proudly proclaimed to be "the cheapest… Read More
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AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation. The New World.
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AMERICAN NOTES for General Circulation. "The New World.

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1842. First American Edition. New-York: J. Winchester, Publisher, November 1842. Original self-wrappers, bound into very early plain blue wrappers. "First American Edition" -- second impression. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and (soon) to be confirmed in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography, this edition (12-1/2 cents) was published at 2:00 PM on Monday, November 7, 1842 -- just TWO HOURS before the "Brother Jonathan Extra" edition (12-1/2 cents) managed to get out on the streets. Harper got its edition (12-1/2 cents) out by early or mid-afternoon on the following day (Tuesday the 8th), and Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia had an edition (first 25 cents, then 12-1/2) on the streets by Wednesday the 9th. (L&B was the only one of these American publishers to have had a prior agreement with Dickens for publication in America -- but Dickens was so upset by the lack of an international copyright law, he forewent any such negotiations -- which is why none of these publishers had… Read More
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The Tuggs's at Ramsgate. In: THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE, by Boz.
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The Tuggs's at Ramsgate." In: THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE, by "Boz.

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1837. Together with Other Tales, by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition (being a volume in the "Library of Fiction"), limited to 1,000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale by Dickens followed by nine other tales by other writers. This is the only one of "Boz"'s tales that, having appeared in a British periodical, did not then appear in one of the two book series of SKETCHES BY BOZ (see Smith I, p. 15, note 2). Instead it appeared in the British "Library of Fiction" in April 1836, and was not included in SKETCHES BY BOZ until that title was issued in monthly parts (Nov 1837 through June 1839). In America, Carey Lea & Blanchard published SKETCHES BY BOZ [second series] a month or two after this -- not including "Tuggs's" -- and then combined "Tuggs's" into a reprint of that volume in June of the same year. This is a good-plus copy (general soil… Read More
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

by Dickens, Charles

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1870. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 4+4 pp terminal ads dated Oct 1870. Original yellow-brown pictorial wrappers. Early (second) American edition, published in late September, about three weeks after Fields Osgood's edition -- and about three months after Dickens's death in June left this tale unfinished. The front cover illustration, the same as appeared on the six UK parts, was the work of Charles A. Collins -- Dickens's son-in-law, and Wilkie's brother; the scenes shown formed the basis for the numerous attempts, after Dickens's death, to complete or "solve" the mystery. Harper had been serializing DROOD in parts, as a monthly Dickens supplement to their Harper's Weekly (but Fields Osgood had earlier paid Dickens an advance for book publication). The Harper serialization -- as well as the fact that this Harper edition came out only in wrappers -- probably explains why Harper's edition is so scarce today: many of their readers had already read the tale serially. This… Read More
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PICTURES FROM ITALY
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PICTURES FROM ITALY

by Dickens, Charles

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1846. New-York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Complete American Edition, issued as No. LXIII in Wiley & Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading" -- available either in wrappers on its own, or bound in red cloth together with Mrs. Jameson's MEMOIRS AND ESSAYS, as here. During 1846 seven letters from Dickens in Italy were published in The Daily News in London, and in America Wiley & Putnam jumped on them and published them in two wrappered parts titled TRAVELLING LETTERS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD -- the only such book edition on either side of the Atlantic (and extremely scarce today). Later that year Dickens polished up the letters and added considerably to their number, creating the U.K. volume PICTURES FROM ITALY, published on May 18th; Wiley & Putnam quickly issued this corresponding American edition on June 8th, followed "a day or two" [Smith] later by William Colyer's edition. Condition of this copy is very good: the original endpapers are intact but there is some wear… Read More
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A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA and THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER
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A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA and THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER

by Dickens, Charles ("Boz")

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1861. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d. [1861]. Without original wrappers. First American Edition of THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER. "A Message from the Sea" was the All The Year Round Extra Christmas Number at the end of 1860; the pieces that formed THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER (so spelled in England) appeared there too, and were then published in book form in London in December 1860 (though dated 1861). In the U.S., Harper paid to have the pieces appear in Harper's Weekly, after which they conveyed the publishing rights to Peterson, who published the first American edition on 2 February 1861, advertised at 50 cents. As bibliographer Walter Smith indicates, Peterson was and is a bibliographer's nightmare -- as no volumes were dated, and multiple printings are differentiable only by their wrappers and ads; however, a general rule of thumb is that Peterson's first format was wrappers without illustrations, followed by cloth with separately-inserted plates, and then cloth with integral… Read More
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A CURIOUS DANCE ROUND A CURIOUS TREE

A CURIOUS DANCE ROUND A CURIOUS TREE

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1860. [London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860.] Original pale pink wrappers. First Edition, second and usual issue -- with the final paragraph in bold (not like the rest of the text), with the wrapper pink (not mauve -- though all are today faded), with the front cover title followed by a comma (not by a period), and with the front cover border decorative only at the corners (not all 'round). Dickens describes the wretched conditions inside St. Luke's Hospital ("established in 1751, for the treatment and care of lunatics"), and in particular the "very sad and touching spectacle" of the annual Christmas Ball there (dancing around the Christmas tree). He actually wrote the original piece in 1852, at which time it appeared in his Household Words (Dickens's authorship was questioned until 1913, when the original manuscript -- in his hand -- turned up). It is here published in book form for the first time, eight years later, when Dickens gave permission for the hospital to use it as a fundraising appeal. The… Read More
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Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, once Mayor of Mudfog.
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1837. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches [by other authors], from Bentley's Miscellany and The Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First Edition of this early collection of tales by various authors -- which constitutes one of Dickens's earliest American appearances in book form. According to Podeschi, 2,000 copies were printed in April 1837. This Dickens tale was not collected in an all-Dickens volume until ten years after his death -- in THE MUDFOG PAPERS (1880). Also included in this volume is "An Evening of Visits" by "J. Fennimore Cooper Esq. [sic]". This volume is in very good-plus condition (closed tear in front free endpaper, rose cloth faded as always, slight rubbing of the spine label); one cannot encounter these Philadelphia volumes from the 1830s in much better condition. Podeschi (Yale) B44; Carr (U of Texas) B551.
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THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
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THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story

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1846. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint. In our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright copy, perhaps near-fine, with the usual minor wear at the spine ends; atypically, the… Read More
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A CURIOUS DANCE ROUND A CURIOUS TREE [with envelope]
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1860. [London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860.] Original pale pink wrappers, with original narrow "one penny" envelope. First Edition, second and usual issue. Dickens describes the wretched conditions inside St. Luke's Hospital ("established in 1751, for the treatment and care of lunatics"), and in particular the "very sad and touching spectacle" of the annual Christmas Ball there (dancing around the Christmas tree). He actually wrote the original piece in 1852, at which time it appeared in his Household Words (Dickens's authorship was questioned until 1913, when the original manuscript -- in his hand -- turned up). It is here published in book form for the first time, eight years later, when Dickens gave permission for the hospital to use it as a fundraising appeal. The hospital added two items to update the piece: an article about the 1860 Ball from the "Times," plus a brief article "Contrast between 1852 and 1860," in which the hospital asserts that many of the deficiencies cited by Dickens have since… Read More
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. With Illustrations
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. With Illustrations

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1865. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 2 pp undated ads. Original purple cloth. First Complete American Edition. Harper paid for the advance rights to issue OUR MUTUAL FRIEND serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and then issued it in several book forms. One format was in two wrappered volumes, beginning with Part I on 2 February 1865. Then on 11 November 1865, Harper issued both part II of that format (at 50¢) , AND the entire book either in cloth (as here, at $1.50) or in wrappers (at $1.00). All of these formats include 34 of the 40 illustrations that has appeared in the UK. This more or less mirrored when the two volumes were being issued in England. Meanwhile John Bradburn of New York, "borrowing" from Harper's serialization, was issuing the book in four volumes (after aborting his effort to do it in monthly numbers); Bradburn's first volume came out in October 1864, constituting the first appearance of any part of the novel in book form on either side of the Atlantic (and likewise… Read More
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. In Two Volumes. With Forty-One Illustrations from Designs by Marcus Stone
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. In Two Volumes. With Forty-One Illustrations from Designs by Marcus Stone

by Dickens, Charles ("Boz")

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1865. Stone, Marcus. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 10 pp Vol II ads, undated (though one page cites 1866 as a future date). Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt vignette on spines. Second American Edition, which is to say Peterson's two-volume "Uniform Duodecimo Edition." Harper paid for advance rights to serialize this novel and to publish it as an octavo book on 11 November 1865; they also sold their plates to Peterson, in such a way that Peterson was able to publish their sub-edition on the very same day, "probably a few hours after Harper's edition." (Peterson would use these same octavo plates for several years, such as for their 1867 Green Cloth Edition.") But Peterson also created its own duodecimo plates, for publication that very same day of this two-volume, single-column edition, with the plates separately printed -- which was priced at $4.00 compared to $2.50. Condition appears to be just about fine, but the volumes were professionally recased -- very early… Read More
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. With Forty-Two Illustrations from Designs by Marcus Stone
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1865. Stone, Marcus. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First American Edition, "Peterson sub-edition" [all quotes from Smith]. Having paid 1,000 for advance rights, Harper serialized this novel in Harper's New Monthly Magazine and, to protect their investment, published the first American edition, both in two parts in wrappers (2 February 1865 and 11 November 1865) and then complete in wrappers or in cloth on the latter date. But Harper also sold their plates to Peterson, in such a way that Peterson was able to publish this sub-edition on the same day, "probably a few hours after Harper's edition." "The added [four full-page] illustrations to this sub-edition account for the differences in the page count," compared to Harper's edition. This copy has the title page identical to that described by Smith, with the list of 23 titles in "Peterson's Uniform Edition"; some copies, believed to be later, have a paragraph describing the… Read More
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AN EPISTLE TO BOZ alias Charles Dickens
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AN EPISTLE TO "BOZ" alias Charles Dickens

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1867. Skaggaddahunk: Scantlewood, Timberlake & Co., Printers to the North River Society 1867. 12-page booklet without wrappers. First (undoubtedly only) Edition of this diatribe in verse form, criticizing both the United States and Dickens's 1867 reading tour of America. The author's name, the publisher, and the location are all fictitious. The first four lines are: All hail, Charles Dickens! dip your pen In scandal and come back again, To paint our manners, and surprise The world with fudge and frothy lies... And the final eight lines are: ...And pimps, and pugilists, and thieves, Buy seats in Congress, if they please; When honest worth must stand aside For rascals, roguery and pride; When humbug, shaving, sham and shoddy Enrich, or ruin, everybody; And fill all honest men with fear, Dickens may find "good pickings" here! Only one other title by this author and publisher is known -- RECONSTRUCTION, published in 1866, as told in the first person by Andrew Johnson. We do not know whether or not this… Read More
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MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY: A Farce in One Act

MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY: A Farce in One Act

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1877. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood printed this edition, was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. This is a volume in the publisher's "Vest Pocket Series," so named for its diminutive size (a second Dickens "comic burletta" was published in this series the same year -- IS SHE HIS WIFE?). This copy is terra-cotta in color; others are green, without priority. It is a bright, near-fine copy (very slight rubbing at the very tips of the binding) -- quite uncommon in this condition. Eckel pp 64-5. Although not so identified, this copy came from the collection of the major Dickens collector Martin Nason.
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