Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, U.S.A., 1879
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Volume 1 only. Blue cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering. Boards with heavy wear; edges torn; hinges weak; pages dusty with age toning; a few pages torn.
Published by Chapman and Hall, Londion, 1880
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 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. Volume I 1833-1856; Volume II 1857-1870; supplemental Volume III, published in 1882, 1836-1870. Index present in Vol.II and Vol. III, 32 page publishers catalog appended Vol. III, and errata slips extant, as called for, in all three volumes. Very light rubbing to tips, raised bands and outer joints; rear joint on Vol. II cracked. All hinges solid and boards firmly attached. An attractive set in a quality fine binding. Podeschi D85.
Published by Chapman and Hall, London
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1872 - 1882, various printings. (Leather binding) Very good. 398, 462, 552, 463, 464, 308pp. Two 3-volume sets numbered as one. Finely bound in tan morocco with decorative borders in gilt and blind, the spines in 6 compartments with gilt decoration (two compartments with red leather labels), the edges and inner dentelles tooled. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon page markers, side-notes, indices. Vols 1, 2 and 3 have a frontispiece with tissue guard and one plate each, illustrations, and bear the legend "Forster" at the foot of the spine. Vols 4 & 5 have photograph frontispieces (each with a small chip on the bottom left corner). The last 3 volumes have the legend "Daughter" at the foot of the spine. A presentable set with minor shelfwear marred only by Vol 6 having a signature sprung and having 3 leaves reattached but worn at the edges. There is an armorial bookplate in each volume. A very handsome set in mylar covers. Includes Mamie Dickens, and Georgina Hogarth (The Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by His Sister-In-Law and His Eldest Daughter (Vols IV-VI)) & John Forster (The Life of Charles Dickens (Vols I-III)). (Sets).