The Cricket On the Hearth

Early, softcover copy of "THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH" - A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens. Though there is no date of publication stated, this copy was likely printed in 1846, the same year as the publication of the 1st American edition. Published by Jordan and Wiley in Boston. "The Cricket on the Hearth" is the third of… Read more about this item

Condition is Good — solid spine, former owner's name on title page and inside back board, no writing in main part of text. No dust jacket. See photos for condition.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, handsomely bound in full dark green crushed levant morocco by the French binder S. David showing the refinement… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition, complete with the half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at the end. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, the original cloth covers backed and cornered in red morocco, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands and… Read more about this item

First edition by the Limited Editions Club, numbered 447 of 1,500. Some light soiling on yellow covers Inside cover has bookmark from previous owner. Otherwise the boo and its 73 high quality deckle edge pages and seven illustrations are in excellent condition/fine condition. Dimensions: (8-1/2" x 12-3/4". No DJ.

The F M Lupton Publishing Co. VG-/na. Hardback. Part of the Gold Series from Lupton Publishing. Decorative cover. Yellowing, some rubbing & edgewear; text overall clean & tight. 128 pages.

[England]: Limited Editions Club, 1933. hardcover. Foxing to covers, typical darkening to the endpapers, otherwise contents bright and fresh. Very Good in a Good slipcase, rubbed with some splitting. Hugh Thomson. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12-3/4") bound in decorated yellow buckram. Copy #305 of 1500 designed, printed, and bound by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press with… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. First printing, with uncommon first state of the advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist beginning "On the First of January...". 12mo (17cm). Rebound in early twentieth-century half leather, gilt decoration and title on spine, cloth-covered boards, with original cloth from front board and spine bound in at rear; marbled endpapers; 2pp of ads… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846.. To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!" DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, with first state of "Oliver Twist" advertisement. Foolscap octavo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1886. Reprint G/na. Hardback. Some rubbing & edgewear; chip at top of spine; creases on spine; some cover discoloration; back hinge cracked; some page yellowing; previous owner's name inside; text overall clean. Interesting advertisements on endpages. 174 pages

TORONTO,CANADA: GAGE LITERATURE SERIES, 1919. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Staplebound. Introduction by A.W. Hooper.Other than former owners name this copy is unmarked. The Cricket of Hearth is yet another Christmas novel of Charles Dickens which was published in 1845 by Bradbury and Evans. This novel has had many criticisms yet, was… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1846 1st edition, 2nd state (including "New Edition of Oliver Twist", followed by 3 lines in italics, at the rear). Well-preserved and VG in its red cloth, with bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and bright, decorative gilt-flourishes and lettering along the spine. Very… Read more about this item

The Golden Cockerel Press / The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Thomson, Hugh. Full yellow cloth boards, lettered & decorated in green, housed in paper-covered slipcase, 12-1/2" x 8-3/4". Mild toning to spine panel, slipcase heavily worn. A delightful edition of this classic.

London: Bradbury & Evans,, 1846 [i.e. 1845]. The third Christmas book in the elusive first state First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, and unusual thus - Smith notes he has only seen a few copies in this state. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December… Read more about this item

Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1981. First edition of the manuscript in facsimile. One of 250 copies signed by Dickens' great granddaughter, Monica Dickens. Unpaginated (and predominantly on rectos). Publisher's crimson morocco with gilt illustration on front board, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, red cloth slipcase. Except for a small snag on the upper spine, a lovely copy."To… Read more about this item

Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1981. Quarto. First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth in facsimile. Red hardcover volume. Ornate engravings and gilt lettering on the boards and spine. Marbled end papers. Comes in a fine red slipcase, decorated with gilt embellishments. Nine engravings from the original edition are included in this volume. As new. The original… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1846. The bibliographer's copy First US edition, first printing. This was the copy of the bibliographer Walter Smith, with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page, and is the copy photographed and described in his bibliography of Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was first published… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1920. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. no date circa 1920, original full limp suede/leather hardcover, pages un-numbered, near fine. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B130.

London: Nottingham Court Press, 1980. Scarce leather-bound hardcover in slipcase; limited to 135 copies - this is number 38. Excellent condition with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. CM. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Maclise, Daniel; Leech, John; Doyle, Richard; Stanfield, Clarkson; Landseer, Edwin Henry. Used.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1905. Collectible; Fine. Handsome, bright half-vellum over a mauve cloth. Bound (and signed) by the Morrell Bindery of London. Clean, well-preserved and Near Fine, with leather title label and decorative fine-tooled gilt at spine. 12mo, 171 pgs., top-edge gilt, elegant marbled endpapers.