Charles Dickens Junior (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Jacket. pp. 121 - 620 Volume V + pp. 1 - 620 Volume VI + pp. 1 - 168 Volume VII. THIS BOOK IS BOUND WONKY WITH FIRST 120 PAGES Vol. V MISSING BUT WITH ALL Vol. VI AND PART Vol. VII IN SAME VOLUME. WORN, rubbed marbled boards, heavy wear to edges and corners, chips to spine-ends. Black leather spine hinges and corners, hinges are cracking but holding, pages clean and sound.…

Paper Covers (original). Condition: Good. No Jacket (as published). Presumed First Thus. 31 pages, illustrated. Presumably a give-away with the periodical? No date stated but Foreword is dated 1934 (Charles Dickens Junior died in 1896). Complete, clean and soundly bound; some edge-wear to the covers. Overall "Good".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [pub. c.1840] published for the author; Engraved frontis and two vignettes, to title and final pages, both after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). Small 8vo. Publisher's original olive green cloth, printed paper label to front with decorative border, priced at two shillings and sixpence, yellow endpapers and publisher's catalogue to rear, general wear and rubbing, with evidence of liquid staining (see photo), this has become a brown stain that affects the bottom of all the leaves, in spite of this the text is largely unaffected, a couple of small creases to page corners, a little weakness to front and rear hinges, else a sound example; an early reprinting of this early piece of Dickensiana - the original being published by Chapman & Hall in 1838 - a response to Edward Caswall ("Quiz")'s "Sketches of Young Ladies" published the previous year, which Dickens described as an "ungallant attack upon the fair sex". 68, [1], [8 catalogue]pp.…

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. The uncommon first edition of this early satirical work from Charles Dickens, a response to Edward Caswall's 'Sketches of Young Ladies'. An uncommon early printing of this early Charles Dickens work. First published by Chapman & Hall earlier in the same year.Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, and one further vignette after Phiz. Collated, complete.A humorous and satirical response to Edward Caswall's "Sketches of Young Ladies" (1837), a work Dickens had described as an 'ungallant attack upon the fair sex'.Undated; dated 1838 via the British Library.In the publisher's original cloth binding, but with the front board detached.Eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.An uncommon early edition of an early Dickens. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper label to front board. Front board detached. Loss to back strip head. Rear joint starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with instances of spotting to first and last few leaves. Good Only. Hablot K. Browne [Phiz] (illustrator). book.…