Sketches By Boz

by Dickens, Charles

Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature.

Sketches is a remarkable achievement, and looks towards Dickens's giant novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention.

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Sketches by Boz; Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People with Forty Illustrations
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by Dickens, Charles

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cruikshank, George. Marbled paper lined boards; pp. viii, 526; complete with all plates; vignette/illustrated title page; advertisement p v. Title vignette and first plate ('The Parish Engine') foxed; second plate ('The Election for Beadle') trimmed and tipped onto replaced page;… Read more about this item
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Sketches By Boz: Illustrative of Every-life and Every-day People. Being Acontinuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches."
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Sketches By Boz: Illustrative of Every-life and Every-day People. Being Acontinuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches."

by Dickens, Charles

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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard , 1837. In original paper covered boards, a Good copy, spine label rubbed yet still legible, red cloth at spine faded, boards rubbed, interior stains first ten pages front and rear not affecting readability, prior owner name in ink front end page. Binding solid, most pages clean and bright. . First American Edition. Paper Covered… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people : the second series, complete in one volume. [Original Cloth]
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by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)

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London: John Macrone [from 1836], 1837. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Second series" of this collection of short pieces of literary journalism that marked the launch of the young author's meteoric career. Crown 8vo (194 x 120mm): [4],viii,377,[1],]pp, with 10 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece and vignette title page dated 1836) by George Cruikshank. Complete with catalogue of… Read more about this item
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SKETCHES BY BOZ - ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE - WITH 43 ILLUSTRATIONS

SKETCHES BY BOZ - ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE - WITH 43 ILLUSTRATIONS

by Dickens, Charles

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Sketches By Boz (THe Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes, Volume 4)
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New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publisher: P F Collier, 1900. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Frontis tissue guarded: A pickpocket in custody, by Boz. Red lettering on verso of tissue guard. Dark red full cloth with blind debossed portrait… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people [Original Cloth]
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London: Chapman & Hall [from 1837], 1863. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Later printing, in original cloth, of the so-called First Collected Edition (the first issue of series one and series two appeared in three volumes) of Dickens's first book, introducing a introducing a major literary talent to Victorian England. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): viii,526pp, with… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People (Second Series)
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by Charles Dickens

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London: John Macrone, 1837. 3/4 leather. Very Good. Along with the "First Series" of "Sketches by Boz", this, the "Second Series" (here offered by itself), constitutes Dickens' first published book. The 1st issue of the 1837 1st edition, with the 20-page publisher's catalogue dated December 1836 at the rear. Tight and VG in its custom 3/4 dark morocco… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume
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London: John Macrone, 1837. Hardcover. Fair. First edition, second issue. 12mo. [4], vi, 377, [20]pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and eight additional plates. Complete with the ten etched plates by George Cruikshank, and the final catalogue of Macrone's publications dated December 1836. Page vi is mis-numbered "viii"; the list of illustrations gives "Vauxhall Gardens by Day" twice by… Read more about this item
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard,, 1837. From one of the great Dickens collections First US edition of the second series of Sketches by Boz, the exceptional Self-Starling copy. Dickens's Sketches was published in two series, together comprising his first book, republishing short stories which had previously appeared in periodicals with new additions. The Sketches cemented his growing reputation, soon… Read more about this item
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Sketches By Boz; A Tale of Two Cities. Two Volumes in One

Sketches By Boz; A Tale of Two Cities. Two Volumes in One

by Dickens, Charles

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Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1885. Title page dated 1885. Dickens classic illustrated with engravings, two titles in one binding. Bright green Victorian cloth binding gilt lettering and elaborate gilt decoration on spine, cover decoration stamped in blind, about 8" tall. Very good condition with very light external rubbing, gilt bright and clear, good hinges, sound text block, very lightly… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz (The Imperial Edition)
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by Charles Dickens

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The Gresham Publishing Company,, 1902. The Imperial Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dj cover as issued. GC plus. The Gresham Publishing Company, 1902. The Imperial Edition. Red hardback (gilt illustration and lettering on the front cover and spine, some marks, nicks, dents and scratches on the cover and spine) in GC plus, no Dj cover as issued. Illustrated with b/w… Read more about this item
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Sketches By Boz.

Sketches By Boz.

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1869. Volume 1. New York / Cambridge, Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press, 1869. 12 cm x 17 cm. VIII, 338 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with some clear signs of wear. Contains inscription and plate by pre-owner. Includes for example the following essays: The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster / The Curate. The Old Lady. The… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People [Two volume set; volumes XXVI and XXVII of the Gadshill Edition]

Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People [Two volume set; volumes XXVI and XXVII of the Gadshill Edition]

by Dickens, Charles; Edited by Andrew Lang; Illustrated by George Cruikshank

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1880. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set! Red cloth boards, octavos, 393pp. and 420pp., illustrated in b&w. Books have sun to spines, bindings tight, texts have some off-setting to endpapers, toning throughout, and some erasable pencil marginalia and underlining. No DJs.
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by Charles Dickens

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Early American edition of "Sketches by Boz'" - Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People by CHARLES DICKENS. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); T.B. Peterson and Brothers "Uniform Edition of Charles Dickens' Works"; Philadelphia. The book features 21 wonderful full-page illustrations by George Cruikshank. Affixed to the front pastedown is a Charles Dickens "Tribute to Genius"… Read more about this item
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Sketches By Boz: Dickens Journalism Volume 1: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers

Sketches By Boz: Dickens Journalism Volume 1: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers

by Dickens, Charles

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Phoenix, 1996. First paperback edition. Paperback. Very good. VGC plus. Phoenix, 1996.First paperback edition. Paperback (small mark, some nicks and creases on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC plus. Illustrated with b/w drawings, map. Illustrations by George Gruikshank. Nice and clean pages with two stain marks and small ink marks on the outer edges, some… Read more about this item
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Sketches By Boz
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Sketches By Boz

by Charles Dickens

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UK: Chapman and Hall, 1895. New Edition . Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1895. Illustrated with 40 engravings. Came from a set of Dickens library edition but complete in it's own right. Beautifully bound in the original three quarter calf and hand marbled paper covered boards.. Lovely gilt tooling… Read more about this item
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by DICKENS, CHARLES

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1874. 8vo, pp. xiv, 577; engraved frontispiece and half-title and 38 engraved plates, all by George Cruikshank; a wacky, home-made binding of full brown morocco, rear cover with blindstamped geometrical pattern, front cover with similar geometric design but with alligator (?) interwoven into the borders and the central design, and with 7 alligator (?) onlays;… Read more about this item
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Sketches by Boz - Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

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London: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank and Phiz. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836 under the pen-name 'Boz' and re-issued in book form 1836. Undated edition circa 1930-35, printed from one corrected… Read more about this item
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by Charles Dickens

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London: Chapman and Hall ca. 1870. Large 8vo.Illustrated. viii, 240 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering and decoration to front cover. With full page and in text b&w illustrations throughout. Wear to extremities. Slight marking to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown and minor foxing throughout. The Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition. . Good. Decorative Cloth.… Read more about this item
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