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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872. Copyright. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Ex library with book plate. Bound in 1/2 leather, quite scuffed. Some edge soiling inside. This is the first volume of three published by Tauchnitz. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 585 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

Hansebooks, 2021. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dent, 1966 hardcovers. Two volume set, with clean pages, tight bindings and bright colors. Bright dust jackets show minor wear. Previous owner's identifiers inside front covers. Not Ex-Lib.

NY: Charles scribner's Sons, 1902. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2 volume set in green cloth with sunned spines, drink ring to volume 1. Gilt stampings, top edges gilt as well. Dickens frontis/tissue guards on both volumes. Also includes a photographic postcard of Dickens (same photo as the frontis of volume 2) laid in. Text clean..

London: Dent / Everyman's Library, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Revised edition. Notes and index by A.J. Hoppé. 474, 486pp. Volume one with small stains on a few pages and text block edges, joints split about halfway, boards worn and lightly soiled, good only; volume two near fine with a few spots on text block edges and light edgewear; both in very good dust jackets with front flap top corners clipped (UK price intact) and a section on the front flap of volume one neatly canceled in pen. Everyman's Library 781 and 782.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Life of Charles Dickens:1842-1852: in Two Volumes - Vol. 2.

Paperback / softback. New.

London, Dent, 1966.. Two volumes. 8vo. 474+486pp. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good set. . Text based on the 1927 Everyman edition, but restoring the nineteenth century notes and providing an excellent index.

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London: Chapman and Hall / Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, 1876. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Library Edition (Being the Seventeenth Thousand).' First volume rebacked with new end sheets and original backstrip laid down, boards a bit rubbed, several pages foxed. 1876 Hard Cover. Green cloth, gilt titles, black decorations and rules. A biography of the famous British author known for Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrations and facsimiles of contemporary documents throughout.

Germany: Leipzig, 1872. 2 volumes- encompasses all four volumes bound in two. P/Ds contemporary, flyleaf missing to volume 1/2, period ink inscrip to fep, PP very clean and tidy. Faux Leather Cloth Boards. Good/No Jackets. 16mo.

London : Chapman & Hall, 1880. The ""Charles Dickens Ed"". Hardcover. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance : Bookplate of Sir Cuthbert Headlam. Physical description; 2 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates (including portraits), facsimiles ; 18 cm. Subject; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870.

Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co., 7274. Beveled decorative maroon boards the bust of Dickens in gilt to the front.The titles "Forster's Life of Charles Dickens" etc in gilt to the spine.Boards show some shelf wear,light soilng a little dampness perhaps and there is foxing more noticeable at the(Frontis etc.) engravings (caused by the tissue paper protection).Vol. III has a split across the spine approx 2" up from the foot. The binding seems good for another couple of hundred years all be it that there minor cracking at the hinges mainly in Vol. II.The facsimile of the letter..Invitation to the Public Dinner in New York and the reverse to a Public Ball in New York has a small portion missing. We have had a photocopy made of both and this is include with your books.Vol.I the rear has a Note to the Second American Edition.Vol I has Corrections made in the later Editions of the First volume.Vol.II has the same to the Second Volume.Books are dated 1872,73,74 (Autograph of C.D.… Read More

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Two clean, tight copies. Clothbound black. In very good dust jackets with some slight chipping. Very Light wear to extremities.In two volumes.

Dent, [1927]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of grey ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, dark tops, pictorial endpapers, backstrips a litle dulled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With uniform personal bookplate on front paste-downs. FIRST APPEARANCE IN EVERYMAN. EL 781, 782; Seymour 385.0; 386.0; Sullivan 347.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. Book. Fine. Half Leather. First Edition Thus. Three volumes in one. Octavo, half bound in dark brown morocco leather over dark green, yellow, red and brown hand marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands decorated with gilt and 6 gilt decorations in the compartments. Gilt spine titles. All edges marbled to match boards. Lovely matching marbled endpapers. 688 pp. Illustrated with full page plates. A very attractively produced book in a very scarce one volume format. COMPLETE. A very tight, clean, unmarked volume, the mabled endpapers quite striking and fresh, very slight superficial rubbing perceptible upon closer examination on front boards. Minor rubbing shows along spine edges and very tips of boards. Foxing to blanks at beginning and end of volume not affecting the marbled endpapers. Very good plus. Very attractive and scarce..

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL. Hard cover. The second volume of a two volume autobiography of Charles Dickens. Burgundy red cloth boards with gilt decoration and titles on spine. Moderate wear on board edges. Burgundy endpapers. NB: vintage newspaper cuttings(early to mid 20th Century) about Dickens have been stuck to the front and back endpapers. Cuttings on front give the cast of a 1940s radio adaptation of 'A Tale of Two Cities' and there is a teacard type colour illustration. Pencil inscription/note on the back endpaper. Tissue guard before title page. Foxing and tanning on page edges. Top edges of pages are gilt edged, the gilt has some wear from age. Previous owner name/date on half title page in pencil. A binding error affects pages 533-540(the bottom edges of these pages are not in alignment with the rest of the book, but they are all securely bound and no text is affected. They are all index pages). Page 309-310 appears to have some extra trim on the side edge of the page and is therefore… Read More

London; 1872, 1873 and 1874: Chapman and Hall. Octavo. In three volumes, mixed set. Illustrated. Portrait frontispieces to each volume. Volume I, 398pp. 1812-1941-6th edition; Volume II, 462pp. 1942-1952-Twelfth Thousand; and Volume III, 552pp. 1852-1870-1st edition. Volume I has a special inserted image of the author John Forster. Forster met Dickens in 1836; he became and remained Dickens's staunch and loyal friend. Dickens appointed Forster co-executor of his will and bequeathed to him "to my dear and trusty friend" the MSS of works in Dickens's possession at the time of his death. He became Dickens's adviser and counsellor in literary matters. A very handsome set bound by Mansell in full tree calf, boards framed in a decorative gilt, red and green contrasting morocco spine labels gilt, all other compartments fully gilt decorated, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. joints had been re-enforced., some spots of rubbing to spines. Very nice.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1911. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Turquoise linen binding, ruled in blind, gilt decoration and initials of Forster to front board, elaborate spine decoration and titles in gilt, top edge gilt, two sides untrimmed. A spectacular life of Dickens, extra-illustrated with 500 portraits, facsimiles and other illustrations, including true color plates of the original serial covers. Title page stated "Limited", limitation not stated. Volume I has long contemporary gift inscription and quotation from Bret Harte to front flyleaf. Frontispiece engraving of Dickens (1835) with protective tissue. Introduction by B. W. Matz, frontispiece of Matz, table of contents, list of illustrations [xxxiv], 482 pp. hinges cracked. Volume II, frontispiece engraving of Dickens in 1864, protective tissue, table of contents, list of illustrations [xxvi], 515 pp. front hinge tender. Spines… Read More