Chapman and Hall, London, 1861 First Edition, first issue. [One of 1000 copies]. 3 volumes. Original violet wavy-grained cloth, the covers with floral decoration within linear border stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Housed in a very handsome full red morocco solander box, gilt titles to spine and blind rule to sides. Recased with end papers neatly, reinserted and neat repairs to head and foot of spines, faded, with section at top of each cover retaining original colouring where old label [possibly library lending label] has been remove, gilt on spines dulled. Overall a good copy of this extremely scarce title. $45,191.78
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London, Chapman and Hall, 1843 In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. First Edition, First Issue. This copy has all first issue points that are called for. With green endpapers, red and blue title page dated 1843 and the Stave I issue plus all first state text errors. Original brown ribbed cloth, with gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt decoration and blank tooling to boards, all edges gilt, and green endpapers. Fitted in a burgundy full morocco solander box, with gilt title, gilt decoration, raised bands on spine and marbled paper interior. Some rubbing to spine and edges of box. $31,634.25
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 Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. H. K. Browne (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Description: First Edition. 1859. Rebound dark blue half-leather with blue marble exterior. Minor wear to leather around edges. Blue marble end papers and all edges blue marbled. Spine decorately tooled with five raised bands. All letters gilt. No catalogue. All internal flaws mentioned in Smith [13] are present including page [213] being misnumbered as "113." Minor foxing with more noted on pages prior to title page. Neat name plate on front paste down. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Very slight cracking to interior spine but otherwise tight. A very clean, handsome copy. $7,900.00
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First edition. Bound by Bayntun in full navy blue levant morocco, front panel with hand-painted miniature on ivory of a young Dickens (measuring 3’’ x 2½’’). Raised bands to spine and elaborate gilt borders and tooling to spine, both panels and dentelles. All edges gilt with silk lined end papers. Thirty nine steel engraved plates by Halbot Brown. Internally very clean. Slight fading to the spine, but a fine copy. An excellent example of a Cosway-style binding and beautiful copy of Dickens’ own favourite amongst his novels. $8,134.52
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Cruikshank, George (illustrator). First Edition. By "Boz", 3 vols., 1st ed., 1st issue, 1838, half-titles to first and second vols., twenty-three (of 24) etched plates by George Cruikshank, 4pp pubs. ads. at rear of vol. 1, lower outer corner of pp. 47/48 (text, not plate) to vol. 1 torn and crudely repaired without loss to text, lacks frontispiece (with ads. to recto) in vol. 3, some spotting and browning to plates, recased with plain endpapers and orig. spines relaid, moderately rubbed and some wear to extremities, spines a little faded. First issue with 'Boz' on title and with the 'Fireside' plate in vol. 3. Original reddish brown blind stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, all 3 volumes with the binding variant of horizontally-ribbed cloth with less intricate arabesque design in blind and without publisher’s imprint at the base of the spine. $3,245.00
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Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Phiz (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Description: London: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. First State, 1844. Rebound in half burgandy leather and marble paper with marbled end plates. Some wear to exterior on front and back and especially at edges. (Original brown cloth cover is bound into end of copy). First marbled page is loose from binding. Paper patch repairs to top right hand pages up to title page. Moderate foxing to all illustrations by Phiz. No ads. Very tight binding and a clean copy. $2,100.00
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Charles Dickens -- 1st Edition 1st Printing -- Near Fine/None-- copy of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 8vo. Half-title, verso blank + Frontispiece + [v] + viii-xvi + [1]-624 pp. Mixed State: "letter" has been corrected from "latter" in the sixth line from the bottom of page 160. Even so, the "Chapman & Hall" imprint is present at the bottom of the plates up to page 45, which Eckel claims were omitted in later impressions. Also, "visiter" is not corrected to "sister" in the seventeenth line of page 123. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary straight-grain brown calf with marbled endpapers. $2,500.00
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Quarto, 609 pp. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half purple morocco & lighter silke moir original dust-jacket. With 43 plates of illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. First book edition, first issue (with two Chapter III's, see Eckel, pp56-58) of one of Dickens' most amusing and best loved novels, the story of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and his companions and fellow club-members, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, and their quite preposterous adventures. Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and as such is an essential item in any collection of his works. This copy in a very attractive late 19th century binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Usually occasional foxing, generally fine condition.$3,500.00
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