American Notes For General Circulation

Chapman and Hall. London. 1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines and floral centre pieces, all in gilt.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. 8vo. 92 pages, plus [4] pages terminal ads. Text in two columns. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Chip to dedication/contents leaf with loss of two words in table of contents ("System" in "Lowell and its Factory System" and the word "to" on another line), else fair only. Both wraps detached, creased,… Read more about this item

1842. Boz' Works -- No. 21. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Original self-wrapper (serving as title page); lacking the rear wrapper. Fourth American Edition (just two days after the first!) -- second issue. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and soon to be confirmed in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography, this edition was published… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Cheap edition, but first edition thus, with a new "Preface to the Cheap Edition" by Dickens. Octavo. 175pp. Yellow endpapers. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind, spine elaborately gilt. Spine a little sunned, foxing mostly on frontispiece and titlepage, very slight wear at the crown, a handsome very good or… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (188 x 122mm):… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First printing of the cheap edition, for Dickens first complete works, with a new preface penned by the author and dated June 22, 1850. Olive green blindstamped cloth with elaborately gilt spine. Frontispiece by C Stanfield. Printed in double column format. Fronitispiece badly foxed, else interior quite clean. No name… Read more about this item

Leipzig, Germany Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842. Hardcover Very Good+: shows only the most minute indications of use. Mild rubbing to the black panelled boards; light wear to the extremities; some faint scuffing along the outside edges of the panels; foxing to the outside edges and endpapers; former owner's bookplate at front pastedown endpaper. The binding is square and secure;… Read more about this item

New York: J. Winchester; Wilson & Company,, 1842. American piracies of American Notes Both the first and second US editions, the former achieving this status by beating the latter's publication time by two hours. Both copies are from the collection of Dickens's bibliographer Walter Smith, and are photographed in his bibliography (pp. 12 & 16). The work was first… Read more about this item

London: 186, Strand: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. STANFIELD C.. In contemporary half calf over worn brown marbled boards, corners & edges bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, worn, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (x-xiii), [1], [1], 2-175 pp, watermarks to frontis, upper joint cracked, printed by… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 3/4 leather. Very Good. The 1842 1st edition, 1st issue (verso of "Contents" leaf incorrectly numbered "XVI"), in 2 vols. Both volumes solid and VG in their custom 3/4 dark morocco over marbled boards (a handsome "Tout" binding). Tasteful bookplates at each first blank endpaper, light wear to the outer hinges, light scuffing… Read more about this item

1850. First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher's advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition. … Read more about this item

London:: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First Edition/First State with the preliminary pages of volume I misnumbered. Smith Part II. 3 - this copy with the variant binding of vertically ribbed cloth.Original Leighton & Eeles cloth binding with their ticket in volume I. Uncut and housed in a 1/2 leather slipcase. Moderate wear and minor foxing and soiling but an exceptionally… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1842. Second edition. Second edition. Two volumes. Original light brown fine-grained cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design on both covers and spine, gilt lettering on spine, smooth yellow endsheets. 308pp; 306pp; 6 page publisher's prospectus at end. A superb copy in original cloth with slight sunning, else fine with cloth clean and crisp, gilt on covers… Read more about this item

ReadHowYouWant, 2009-03-14. Paperback. Very Good. *** please read this *** Ships from Ohio - no marks on text - pages - some stickers on back cover - next day shipping - tracking provided - K-4-d

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Raymond F. Houlihan. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 9-3/4") bound in genuine tan calfskin leather and decorated gray boards; 316 pages. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Introduction by Angus Wilson. Of 2000 copies, this is out-of-series and not numbered. Illustrated with… Read more about this item

Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. In this travelogue, Dickens doesn't hold back his critique of American society. His humorous dedication reads: "I dedicate this book to those friends of mine in america, who, giving me a welcome I must ever gratefully and proudly remember, left my judgment free; and who, loving their country, can bear the… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.. First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii), 308; (viii), 306, (6) pp., a few gatherings unopened. Publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early armorial bookplate of a Henry Birkbeck to the front pastedowns and his lightly pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I, the discreet contemporary… Read more about this item

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 272p. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. A hardcover book with a brown leather spine and printed paper-covered boards. Fine condition with slipcase. Limited edition; one of 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator, Raymond F. Houlihan.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1974. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

(Printed by Bradbury and Evans for) Chapman and Hall, London: 1850., 1850 pp. xiii, 175 + Frontis by C. Stanfield. Text foxed. 185 mm. Original quarter leather with marbled boards binding. Spine perished. Boards worn. In January 1842, Charles Dickens set sail for a lecture tour in America, accompanied by his wife Catherine and her maid. In America he received… Read more about this item