Dickens Reader, First Edition (69 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. McKay, Donald (illustrator). 1st Edition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. McKay, Donald (illustrator). First Edition. 543 Pages. Green textured cloth book with gold lettering at spine. Green endpapers wiith previous owner's Ex Libris label. The title is spread over two pages. Green decorated dust jacket with white and gold lettering and rubbed and scuffed on edges. Condensed for the modern reader this Dickens Digest contains David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, and Pickwick Papers. Illustrated with Dickens characters in duo-tone. This condensation will enlarge the literary experience of the busy reader. Mary Louise Aswell, who prepared this book, is a Dickens lover with training in book condensation through her years with the Reader's Digest. The master's words have been condensed with skill and deftness of an expert. A million and a half words have become 250,000 in this perfect cutting. None of the memorable Dickens scenes have been sacrificed and as a result this expert condensation makes amazingly modern, exciting reading. It is a book to enjoy for many years to come.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Name Of Former Owner On Front Endpaper, Otherwise Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Dust Jacket Whole But Mottled All Over With Tiny Brown Spots, Cause Uknown. Dj Now In A Protective Mylar Jacket. Price On Flap $3.50.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Near Fine. 1st American edition. blue cloth, 1st US ed. (1972), 318 pages in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Board edges faded; text unmarked. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Very Good copy in Near Fine dust jacket.

Book and jacket are as new. In amazing condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Jacket worn and chipped, held together in Mylar. Dickens's writings on the popular theater, cabarets, minstrel shows, ballet dancerds, pantomimes, marionettes, and even ventrilquists and magicians.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Soft cover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First printing. Ballantine F-680. First printing. Moderate wear around the extremities of the cover. Light tanning to pages. PB51.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. A very nice copy. 370 pages. Book.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at spine tips and corners. 318 pages with index and bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mottling to the spine and covers, and sunning to the head of the text block. Overall, a solid, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and rubbing to the covers with light sun toning to the spine.

Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine. DJ Very Good. 1st Edition. Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens. Edited by Paul Schlicke. [1999] first edition, full number line; Oxford; Binding square and tight, corners sharp. Text Block clean and bright. Jacket is crisp, glossy, unclipped and in mylar. Endpapers feature a map of Dicken's London.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue boards, spine is faded.

Condition: FINE. First US printing. A look at how Dickens's contradictory views of the world, as evidenced in his rhetoric, affect reader's reactions. "Dickens assures his reader that the world is a moral one in which good actions change the world. But the images he creates contradict that faith in a rational world." Notes, index. xiii, 136 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green boards lightly bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends. Spine and boards unevenly sunned, previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Binding square, occasional pencil underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 654 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Bound in dark blue Oxford cloth with gilt type face on the spine. First Edition / First Printing. 1,3,5,7,9,10,8,6,4,2.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ New. NO notes or ANY markings. ; 5.75 X 0.5 X 9 inches; 136 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First American Edition. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. Book is a clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket is scuffed , soiled, and rubbed or frayed on all edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt on black field. As issued. Dust jacket slightly chipped at head of front joint, rubbed with slight surface loss at spine extremities, minor rubbing to corners and flap folds, now in mylar. 1st ed. xiv,370 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback book in very good condition,dust jacket is near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xiv, 370pp, illustrations. DW has slight edge wear. Internally, an owner's name. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Maroon cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 370 pages. Edited with a prologue and notes by Eleanor and Edgar Johnson. Illustrated with 12 pages of plates depicting art from the novels and contemporary prints. First edition. An anthology of Dickens's writings on the theater, compiled by one of his most important 20th century biographers. No previous ownership marks. Not in Podeschi. A fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxiii, 654 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-607) and index. Contents; Maps -- General bibliography -- Alphabetical list of characters -- Time chart. Subjects; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Encyclopedias. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation Encyclopaedias. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles. English literature 19th century. Novelists, English 19th century Biography ; Encyclopedias. English literature 19th century ; Encyclopedias. Novelists, English 19th century ; Biography. 3 Kg.

Blue cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First. Near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket with both showing just a mild bit of trace wear. 654 pages with black & whites and index. Still a pleasing copy of this work that ".offers a more reliable, concise, extensive, and accessible range of information than any other reference work on Dickens.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket.; Book has light foxing along fine edges and writing inside front cover. Dustwrapper is faded, torn along edges and spine and has a tear on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Spine ends lightly bumped, near fine in a lightly toned very good dust jacket with a short tear on the front panel, light creases on the front flap and modest edgewear. An anthology of Dickens' writings on the theater, including the great theatrical scenes from his novels.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition in America.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Binding tight and square, strong hinges, very clean, unmarked interior. Covers moderately worn and spine sunned. Previous owner's name in front and small bookplate on front pastedown.