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Printed in England by Miller, Son and Compy. Title page in blue and red ink. "Stave I" on p.1, as was the inconsistency of the first edition. The four originally hand-colored illustrations were reproduced by the Sprague-Haycock lithographic process.The four originally black and white woodblock prints were reproduced by electroforms from the original woodblocks, then still owned by Chapman and Hall. A remarkably nice facsimile in very good condition. The English version was published by Cecil Palmer. Very Good to Near Fine. Price: $175.00 11144 Kenny, Charles.- The Manual of Chess: Containing the Elementary Principles of the Game; Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Recent Games, and Original Problems. New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1868. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations, ? Third Edition. 122 pp. Small 12mo. Red publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling and blind rulings on front cover. Greenish yellow end papers. An excellent 19th century American chess manual. Clear introduction and analysis. Numerous openings, presentation of games and problems for reader analysis. Originally issued in 1859. Excision of small rectangle (1/2” x 3/4”) from cloth of spine (? title). Stain near hinge on rear cover. Wear at edges of spine, corners and edges of boards. Owner’s signature in ink on front free end papers, dated Dec. 1872 and struck out lightly. Another owner’s signature in pencil on second front free end paper. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 11142 Dickens, Charles.- Bleak House. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 1872. First Edition in this format. 352 pp. + 6 pp. publishr’s ads. 12mo. Tan stiff paper wraps, titled on spine and front cover and illustrated on front cover in reddish brown. Double column format. Podeschi D55. A “cheap edition” of Bleak House, from Dickens’s Works, published right after his death by D. Appleton in New York. Appleton also had nearly simultaneously published Dickens’s Works in the Household Edition (Podeschi D68), by arrangement with Chapman & Hall, Dickens’s formal publisher in London. Wear of spine wiih chips at head and edges and separation of front hinge at foot. Mild toning of pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $60.00 11139 [Carte de Visite]. J. Gurney, Photographer.- Charles Dickens. New York. J. Gurney & Son. 1867. Illustrated. First Edition. 1 p. 2-1/2” W x 4-1/8” H. Carte de visite, as issued. Similar to Podeschi H1186, buti carte de visite style. One of the best of the Dickens cartes de visite. He is standing at 1/4 profile, dressed in his elaborate great coat, grey trousers, fancy black vest, white shirt, a four-in-hand tie and elaborate gold chain and watch across his vest, right hand on hip and erect confident posture. The left hand rests at the crest of a wooden chair. The beard and har are typicaly a bit undressed. This was one of the best of a series of images taken by Gurney in New York on Dickens’s second visit to the United States, in1867. There is a slight sepia toning of theimage and border. The title and copyright data are printed below. On the reverse, the studio title and address ina deice are printed in lilac amidst a yellow cartouche. Very Good +. Price: $200.00 11138 J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau.- [Theatre Booklet and Program] Frank Speaight. New York. J. B. Pond. N.D. (ca. 1915–32) Illustrated. First Edition.6 pp. 4” x 5 1/4” Illustrated card covers. Stapled stiff paper pages. Catalogues of University of Iowa Libraries and Brown University Library on Internet. A handsome small theatrical program for a series of presentations of scenes and characters from Dickens’s novels and works by a very noted impersonator of Dickens at his readings and original dramatizations from Dickens’s works.. The program cover, in red and black, is an illustration of Speaight, with the shape of the program defined by the shape of the portrait. The programs were presented on Saturday evenings throughout the month of February at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in the Music Hall. Each page quotes a publicity blurb from a news publication, illustrates the program with an illustration from Dickens’s works and lists the pieces presented. They were “Pickwick” on Feb. 6, “Copperfield” on Feb. 13, “Nicholas Nickleby” on Feb. 20 and The Pickwickians at .Bath and Other Selections” on Feb. 27. Those dates fall on Saturday in 1915, 1926 and 1932 (within the active career of Speaight). Other examples of Speaight’s programs are in the Redpath Chatauqua Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries and at Brown University, where there is a broadside announcing Speaight’s appearance at the Boston City Club under the sponsorship of the Boston Branch of the Dickens Fellowship in February, 1928. Speight also published his readings (Podeschi C19), a memoir of “My Dickens Friends” (Podeschi H424) and a volume of Poems (Putnam, 1925, Brown University Library). Rust over staple. Cover leaf loose at staple. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 11134 [Broadside]. Correct List of the Sporting Ladies, Who Are Just Arrived at These Races. London, likely. N. Pub. N.D. [ca. 1780–90]. First Edition. 1 p. 7-1/2” W x 12” H. Unbound, as issued. http://www.baph.org.uk/imagepages/w atermarks/catteshall.html (for watermark). Not in Shipton & Mooney, Short Title Evans. A lewd horse racing and prostitution broadside, dated from the subject, the genre, the typeface, the paper and the watermark to the late quarter of the 18th century. Almost certainly British. The sporting ladies are the prostitutes commonly present on racing days, listed by name, character of sexual expression, age and skills. The paper is tan, laid paper and the watermark is Britannia, in a form characteristic of 18th century production. A review of the web site of the British Association of Paper Historians suggests that this watermark most closely resembles that for the Catteshall Paper Mill, Goldalming, Surrey, ca, 1781–86. Generally with such broadsides as this, America cannot be ruled out as a source, for as Dard Hunter points out (”Papermaking”), in colonial America and shortly thereafter, British watermarks were used by American papermakers to lend a social cachet to their products. However, the paradigm of these broadsides was clearly British, e.g. “Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure’ Kalendar” (issued annually after 1740, at least till 1793). Our broadside refers to one of the prostitutes as usually found at Covent Garden. “The Word on the Street- Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland” has several similar racing broadsides referring to the “sporting ladies” and tying them, in one case, to the Kelso Races. The illustration is a wood engraving of a naked young woman accompanied by a naked child. It is flanked by the verses of a lewd poem. Few minor spots in margins. Else, Very Good +. Price: $850.00 11131 [Selections].- The Condition, Influence, Rights and Appeal of Women, from Joseph A. Segur, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Carey, Matthew Herttell, William Thompson, Alexander Walker, John Milton, and Other Philogynists. Albany, NY. The Publisher. 1845. Third Edition. Various pagination. 12mo. Printed and illustrated paper wraps. DNB (for Ames and Child). Groce & Wallace (for Ames and Hall) An uncommon, socially advanced reader, published in Albany in the early 19th century, consisting of selections from the writings of major 17th and 18th century writers on women in society, like Segur, Wollstonecraft, Milton and others. The pagination of each section probably stems from the original source of the material. Frontispiece drawn and signed by Ezra Ames, engraved by J. H. Hall for L. Maria Child’s (1802–80) poem, “Association”, which is quoted in entirety on first and last leaves. Child was a prominent author, abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights. Ames (1768–1836) was a noted and popular portraitist and engraver, based in Albany. His early (1800–20) portraits of Alexander Hamilton and Governor George Clinton are especially admired. Hall, born in Cooperstown, NY, was a prominent engraver and lithographer in Albany, ca. 1825–49, when he moved to California in the gold rush and soon died there. A strongly anti-sexist document that had wide circulation. I can find no holding earlier than this Third Edition of 1845. Disbound. Ex Libris with only very modest stamp on title page. Few chips from edges of covers, not encroaching on text. Minor foxing. Last 2 signatures jointly separated from text block. Else, Very Good. Price: $475.00 11130 Darton, F. J. Harvey.- Vincent Crummles. His Theatre and His Times. With an Historical Introductory Note and Appendices from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. London. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. 1926. Illustrated. Frontispiece hand colored. First Edition. One of 400 copies in limited first issue. 230 pp. Large 8.vo Deep blue cloth spine. Boards in light blue publisher’s cloth. Printed paper label on spine. Extra label tucked in at rear. T.e.g. Untrimmed at foot. Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton (1878–1936) was a noted author of books on books, on book illustration and on literature. His book on English children’s books is a classic and gave major new insights to the field. In this volume, he uses the episodes of Nicholas Nickleby involving Crummles to discuss the history and character of the English provincial theatre. Charming, insightful and informative. Wear at ends of spine. Covers mildly soiled. Toning of end papers. Lower edge of rear free end paper and rear pastedown slightly ragged. Else, Very Good Price: $105.00 11128 Loomis, Elias.- LIII. Letter from Professor Loomis of New York University to Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, of the Determination of Differences of Longitude Made in the United States by Means of the Electric Telegraph, and on Projected Observations for Investigating the Laws of the Great North American Storms. In The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and Journal of Science. Third Series. Vol. 31, No. 209, November, 1847, p. 338–341. London. Richard and John E. Taylor, Printers and Publishers to the University of London. 1847. First Edition. Pp. 221–400. 8vo. Printed blue paper wraps.Frnt edge and foot untrimmed. Dict. Sci. Biog. (for Loomis) Elias Loomis (1811–89), was born in Connecticut, educated at Yale, where he first taught natural science and, with Olmsted, was the first Americans to identify Halley’s comet when it reappeared in 1835. He taught at Western Reserve College and then at NYU, 1844–60. A brief intervening stint at Princeton was terminated by the social hostility in New Jersey toward natives of Connecticut. After 1860, he succeeded Olmsted at Yale. He devised the system of isobars on weather maps, wrote extensively on meteorology, astronomy and mathematics. He, early on, measured the earth’s magnetic field. His texts on algebra & geometry, the calculus and trigonometry were extremely popular and widely translated. In this paper the author describes a system of recording telegraphic signals struck in one city at regular intervals and calibrating their reception in others with the aid of accurately justified clocks, thus giving their longitudinal separation of each locale. His purpose is meteorological observation of the great storms of North America, Here he solicits, in this letter describing his observational system, the aid of the Royal Society in getting permission of the British government and the Hudson Bay Company for the cooperation of Canada in sponsoring experiments with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, This interest in magnetic storms and the Aurora Borealis occupied much of Loomis’s later career, especially his work on the Great Auroral Exhibition of 1859. 1/2” chip from head of spine with 1” tear along hinge of front wrapper. Soiling of front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 11127 Cary, Thomas G.- Letter to a Lady in France on the Supposed Failure of a National Bank, the Supposed Delinquency of the National Government, the Debts of Several States, and Repudiation; with Answers to Enquiries concerning the Books of Capt. Marryat and Mr. Dickens. Boston. Benjamin H. Greene. 1844. Second Edition. 60 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey printed paper wraps. Podeschi H80–82. In the 1830's to 1840's, America was the subject of a series of critical expositions by European visitors, including Alexis de Toqueville, Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, Captain Marryat and Charles Dickens, the most critical being Marryat and Dickens. The culmination was the diatribe "American Notes" and the subsequent novel, "Martin Chuzzlewit," by Dickens. These were not unanswered. The most acknowledged response was in Henry Wood's "Change for the American Notes," purporting to be in the form of a letter from an "American Lady." This pamphlet by Thomas Cary, again in the form of a letter to a "Lady in France", deals with a cluster of criticisms of America, responded to by Cary as the "The Late Imputations of Dishonor upon the United States" by several critics. Most explicitly he responds to specific criticisms of America voiced by Captain Marryat and Charles Dickens. It was published in several editions. This second edition lincludes an advertisement, printed in this edition only, announcing the inclusion on the title page of the authorial ascription. The first edition, only, was published in late 1843 without the authorial ascription. Spine lost. Covers detached, but present. Lightly soiled covers. Else, Very Good +. Price: $175.00 11126 Dickens, Charles and W. M. Thackeray.- [Facsimile]. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman wit XI Plates by George Cruikshank. London. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1969. Illustrated. Facsimile of First Edition, 2nd Issue. 40 pp. 24mo. Red stiff paper wraps with heavily gilt title and illustration on front cover Podeschi B84, Van Duzer, #124, Cohn #243 (for original 1839 edition). Originally published in 1839 by Charles Tilt, the authorship was problematic until 1938. Froom letters of Dickens to cruikshank it is clearly an adaptation by Dickens and Thackeray of a traditional ballad. The Preface and Notes are by Dickens; Cruikshank was the illustrator. Dickens’s sister took down the music as he hummed the tune. This facsimile was probably issued as a keepsake. Ex Libris. Library and withdrawal stamp on half title. Else, Very Good + to Near Fine. Price: $45.00 11124 [Broadside, Theatrical Playbill]. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden Theatre Royal, Covent–Garden This Present Wednesday, April 9, 1823, (7th time) the new Tragedy of Julian.…Prince Julian, Mr. Macready, …With 9th time, a Splendid Melo-Dramatick Tale of Enchantment (from Incidents in the Peruvian Tales) called The Vision of the Sun; or, the Orphan of Peru,…Tycabroc (his Slave [sic] Mr. Grimaldi,…. London. W. Reynolds, Printer to the Theatre. 1823. First Edition. 1 p. 8-1/8” W x 13-1/8” H As issued. Charles Dickens, Memoirs of Grimaldi. Sir F. Pollock, Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters. DNB. A wonderful early 19th century theatrical broadside with rich text in numerous typefaces, announcing various performances by William Macready (1793–1873) and by Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837). This performance was early in the career of the distinguished actor, William Macready, whose first performance on the stage at Covent Garden was as Orestes in “The Distressed Mother” (Racine’s “Andromaque”, in translation) in 1816. In 1819, his “Richard III” was a smash success and his curtain call was the first in Covent Garden history. His career continued in this tradition. 1823 was the year of Macready’ first marriage. He later became an intimate friend of Charles Dickens from an early stage of Dickens’s writing career. His performance in “King Lear” was outstanding as he restored the ending to Shakespeare’s original after 150 years of misperformance. Also on this bill is Joseph Grimaldi, the most distinguished comic actor, clown and pantomimist of the day in Britain. 1823 was the year of his retirement, with his memoirs to be edited and introduced by Charles Dickens 15 years later. This broadside projects further performances of Macready (including his popular “Macbeth”), Grimaldi, Charles Kemble and Miss [Anna] M[aria] Tree (sister of Ellen Tree, the wife of the distinguished actor Charles Kean). A rich broadside of both theatrical and visual interest. Slight pallor of finest print. Few faint spots of foxng in margins.Else, Very Good +. Price: $375.00 11121 (Carte-de-visite). Elliott & Fry. Jennie Lee as Jo. From Burnett’s “Jo”, adapted from Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. London. Elliott & Fry. 1876 First Edition. 1 p. 2-5/8” W x 3-7/8” H. John Parker, Who’s Who in the Theatre, (1922) p.483. Jennie Lee (ca. 1845–1930), a London -born actress, married to J. P. Burnett, a dramatist and actor, first appeared on stage in 1870 at the Lyceum . For several years she was a member of the Union Square Theatre company in New York. She first appeared as Jo in “Jo”, written by her husband in an adapation of Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House” in San Francisco, at the California Theatre, in 1875. She scored a great success, which was repeated in 1876 at the Globe in London. This became her most successful part, which she repeated throughout her career into the 1920’s; she became the most noted theatrical Jo of all time, and appeared in the part in 1921 in support of the Charles Dickens House in London. The photographer was the firm of Elliott & Fry (1863–1963), among the most noted Victorian and modern photographers in Britain. Political leaders (e.g. Gladstone), authors (e.g. Tennyson) and other notables (e.g. Charles Darwin, W. S. Gilbert), etc. were their subjects. Their mammoth invaluable archive was destroyed in a bombing in World War II; the residual archive is held at the National Portrait Gallery (London). Very Good. Price: $275.00 11120 Anonymous .- [Broadside]. Pollock's Scenes in Oliver Twist, Plates. No. 5. Scene 5, 9, 11. London. B. Pollock N.D. Woodblock illustrations with hand coloring. First Edition. 1 p.™ 8vo sheet. Single loose broadside sheet. Podeschi C35. VanderPoel B109(1), (2), 110. Suzannet, E.35 (with plate of this illustration).W. Dexter,The Dickensian, Vol.XXIX, No. 225, 1932/33, pp.37–40. Rather crudely done illustrations of some of the characters and scenes from Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Likely from an early edition of what is known from Podeschi as "Pollocks' Juvenile Drama. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. A Drama. With Plates Adapted Only for Pollock's Characters and Scenes." The address, at 73 Hoxton Street, in the Gimbel issue is the same as provided for Redington on other similar plates. Redington had been a predecessor of Pollock and was his father-in-law. The plates were issued separately from the text of the play, which was claimed to be the only juvenile dramatization of Dickens' works. Even in Pollock's edition, some of the plates retained the Redington attribution. No date is listed. Podeschi estimates ca.1860, while a similar production in the VanderPoel collection estimates the date to be ca. 1839.The scene illustrated here is Fagin’s den a decrepit room, nonetheless hung with pictures, broadsides and laundry. The door is chained and one of the broadsides crudely shows a figure hanging from a gallows. Near Fine. Price: $100.00 11119 [Broadside]. Anonymous .- Redington's Set Pieces in Oliver Twist. No.1. London. J. Redlington. N.D. Woodblock illustrations, hand colored. First Edition. 1 p. 8vo sheet. Podeschi C35. VanderPoel B109(1), (2), 110. Suzannet, E.35. W. Dexter,The Dickensian, Vol.XXIX, No. 225, 1932/33, pp.37–40. Rather crudely done illustrations of some of the characters and scenes from Dickens' "Oliver Twist." From an early edition of what is known from Podeschi as "Pollocks' Juvenile Drama. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. A Drama. With Plates Adapted Only for Pollock's Characters and Scenes" The address, at 73 Hoxton Street, in the Gimbel issue is the same as provided for Redington on this plate . Redington had been a predecessor of Pollock and was his father-in-law. The plates were issued separately from the text of the play, which was claimed to be the only juvenile dramatization of Dickens' works. Even in Pollock's edition, some of the plates retained the Redington attribution. No date is listed. Podeschi estimates ca.1860, while a similar production in the VanderPoel collection estimates the date to be ca. 1839. Here, the 4 illustrations on one sheet consist of a road sign to London, the room of Fagin’s den, a collection of 5 thieves and the Dodger and Master Bates at cards. Near Fine. Price: $100.00 11118 Playfair, [Sir] Nigel.- When Crummles Played. Being the Full Original Text of Lillo’s Tragedy of The London Merchant, or George Barnwell, acted by Mr. Vincent Crummles’s Company at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, under the Direction of Mr. Nigel Playfair. With an Introduction by F. J. Harvey Darton, Author of “Vincent Crummles, His Theatre and His Times”. London. Chapman & Hall. 1927. Frontispiece woodcuts of the Old Portsmouth Theatre. First Edition. 136 pp. 12mo. Printed buff paper covered boards.Grey cloth spine titled in black. Stratman (Tragedy) 3413. DNB. A satirical presentation of the 1731 play by the 18th century dramatist (and jeweller)and tragedian, George Lillo (1693–1739). This was Lillo’s most famous work; a melodrama of a new genre, dealing with everyday people, rather than kings and nobles. This form of melodrama and domestic tragedy came to dominate 19th century English theatre. Nigel Playfair (1874–1903) was a highly educated theatre manager and actor, based at the Lyric Theatre at Hammersmith. “When Crummles Played” is typical Playfair contemporary satire and original comedy. Its original production starred Edith Evans. Playfair later (1930) presented a young John Gielgud in Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Lillo’s “The Merchant” is here presented as Vincent Crummles, of Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby, might do it. Not surprisingly, F[rederick] J[oseph] H[arvey] Darton (1878–1936), author of “Vincent Crummles, His Theatre and His Times”, has written the introduction. In it, Darton points out forcefully that the Crummles troupe is not a parody, but adheres closely to Dickens’s awareness of theatrical life and mores of his youth. Mild foxing of preliminaries, a few pages and edges of text block. Else, Very Good. Price: $50.00 11113 Dickens, Charles.- Charles Dickens on Horses. In Daily Bulletin Supplement, Vol. XXXVII. Saturday, October 25, 1873. No.16, p.1, San Francisco. The Daily Bulletin. 1873. First Edition. 2 pp. (whole issue) Fo. Newspaper, as issued. A tongue-in-cheek criticism of the horse by Charles Dickens (putatively). Probably from Household Words or All the Year Round. A piracy, no doubt. Folded twice. Trimmed slightly at foot Very Good. Price: $45.00 11112 Anonymous.- Reviews–– The Adventures of David Copperfield the Younger. By Charles Dickens. Putnam; Burgess; Lea & Blanchard. Pp. 428–9, In The Literary World. A Journal of American and Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. VII. No. 22, November 30, 1850. No. 200., pp.425–448. New York. Evert A, & George L. Duyckinck. 1850. First Edition 24 pp., whole issue. 4to. Self-wraps. Pages untrimmed and some uncut. An interesting two-page review of early American editions of Dickens’s David Copperfield in a contemporary American literary magazine. The reviewer seems to find the book too long for him to cope with easily and David Copperfield to be defined too blandly, as someone upon whom diverse events can act without his shaping them. Moreover the reviewer calls attention to the multitude of interesting characters typically presenting themselves in Dickens’s novels, including David Copperfield, characters with some peculiar qualities which Dickens seems to identify in caricature, The reviewer feels that in contrast with our experience with Shakespeare, where we think of the characters long after our experience with them, with Dickens, he exhausts us with our acquaintance with the character and seems to deal with them completely, leaving us little cause for further reflection. The last ten pages are chiefly ads from various publishers for their most exciting wares, giving a good view of contemporary (1850) reading material. Toning of a few edges. Soft creases. Hinge opening from head. Else, Very Good. Price: $65.00 11110 Furniss, Harry (Henry).- My Bohemian Days. With Illustrations by the Author. London. Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. N.D. [1919]. About 110 illustrations by Furniss. Second Edition (so stated). 286 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Henry Furniss (1854–1925) was an Irish born, English caricaturist and artist, whose work appeared in the Illustrated London News, Punch, and many other British periodicals. He was the illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s “Sylvie and Bruno” and its sequel, the works of Thackeray, and was a lifelong devotee of Charles Dickens. He illustrated Dickens’s novels in 1910. This volume is a memoir of Furniss’s adult acquaintances in the late Victorian and Edwardian period in London. It is full of numerous illustrations by Furniss of public figures, actors, political people (especially William Gladstone, for whom Furniss’s caricatures remain the living image of his figure), etc. Furniss moved to the United States about 1911, working there with Thomas Edison in the beginning film industry (1912–13), acting in film and, in 1914, developing the first animated cartoon film. He was a prolific author and illustrator. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Staining of covers. Price: $50.00 11108 WNET Channel 13 and Granada Television Corp. Proposal (Original Photocopy) for the Funding of a Production of Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” for Television Broadcast in Four One-Hour Episodes. Proposal Jointly by Channel 13 (WNET) and Granada Television Corporation to the National Endowment for the Humanities. With Critical Commentary by J. Hillis Milller, G. Robert Stange, George Ford et al. New York. Channel 13 WNET and Granada Television Corp. ca. 1974 Photocopy illustration of cover. First Edition. 8 1/2” x 11”, in contemporary binder. Black fibreboard loose leaf binder. In 1974, WNET Channel 13 and Granada Television cooperated in the beginning of an ultimately successful attempt to cooperate in a production of Dickens’s “Hard Times”. For funding they turned to the NEH, as well as Granada Television in a multimillion dollar production. This is a detailed application for this extra-mural funding and includes a history of the generation of the production, a tentative budget, advice of noted consultants and the early selection of scriptwriter, director, etc. with an outline of the approach to the script enclosed. This copy of the application is an original photocopy, belonging to one unknown member of the original production group. The last three appendices including a sample of the script are not bound into this copy. However a detailed synopsis of each episode by the screenwriter is included. Granada Television is a major British television corporation, dating from the 1950’s and originally centered in the North of England, in Manchester, near which “Hard Times” takes place. The production was broadcast in 1977. Granada also filed and produced such TV successes as “Brideshead Revisited” in 1981, “Jewel in the Crown” in 1984, and “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (Jeremy Brett) in 1984–5. This version by Granada, directed by John Irvin, written by Arthur Hopcraft and lasting 4 hours, was the first TV production of “Hard Times”. In 1916 there had been a silent film version and, subsequent to this Granada version, a less successful BBC mini-series of “Hard Times”. Asa Briggs, Stephen Marcus and George H. Ford, all noted Dickens scholars, were consultants to the production and worked to recreate Dickens’s language, mood and expository style, as had been recommended ear;ier by the first set of consultants. The application gives insight into the difficult mechanism for the development, funding and mounting of a major television adaptation of a classic novel. Price: $400.00 11107 Dickens, Charles.- A Christmas Carol. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1869. Illustrated in a new edition by Sol Eytinge and engraved by Andrew Varick Stout Anthony (1835–1906). Tissue guards. Printed at University Press. First Edition in this format. 111 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth Titled in gilt on front cover and on spine, in the blind on rear cover. Elaborately decorated in gilt on spine and front cover, and in the blind on rear cover. Beveled boards. A.e.g. Chocolate coated end papers. Podeschi A85 (for this edition). Hamilton I, 67 and DAB (for Anthony) A sumptuous edition of one of Dickens’s masterpieces, a new edition of his first Christmas book from 1843. Possibly a celebration by the publisher of their acquiring from the author rights to publish all of Dickens’s work in America. This was engineered by James T. Fields, close friend to Dickens, and led to a controversy with Harper’s over these rights. Alas, Dickens lived only to complete half of his next book, for which Ticknor and Fields were the primary authorized American publisher, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” in 1870. The book here is elaborately printed, with decorations, head and tail pieces on heavy stock, as are the engravings (which are not cited in Hamilton). Anthony, “from 1866 to 1869…superintended, with delicate taste, the production of fine editions for Ticknor & Fields” (DAB). Gilt quite bright. Minimal wear at ends of spine. Minimal foxing of tissue guards with only a few spots in margin of two illustrations. Slightly shaken, especially last signature, but all still attached. Small nick on rear hinge. Else, Very Good. Price: $450.00 11105 Thomas, Isaiah, Junior.- Town & Country Almanack, or Complete Farmer’s Calendar, for the Year of our Lord 1811: Being the Third after Leap Year, and the 35th of Columbian Independence. Worcester, MA. Isaiah Thomas, Jr. 1811. Illustrated. First Edition. 42 pp. 12mo. Self-binding. Sagendorph, America and Her Almanacs A good Isaiah Thomas almanac for 1811, set for the coordinates of Boston, with charming illustrations and printed borders. The tradition of Almanacs in America goes back to nearly the first settlements by Europeans in the early 17th century. Part of the tradition is bound up in the history of Isaiah Thomas and his printing firm in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts. Here, Thomas’s son continues this tradition, which in the late 18th century began to engage farmers with crop information and weather predictions. Illustrations had been popularized by Isaac Bickerstaff (Benjamn West) in the late 18th century. Here Thomas continues this tradition with illustrations and his father’s innovation of tri-partite illustrations at the head of calendar pages (often the middle of the three being zodiacal). The Thomases were not astronomically trained and probably got their information on this from Bickerstaff and other almanac publishers. This issue contains a detailed human anatomical illustration and discussion. There is the now customary farmer’s information, as well. Small chips and wear at edges. Toning with foxing. Else, Very Good -. Price: $90.00 11099 [Brady, Matthew].- Wedding Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb and Wife) after a Photograph by Matthew Brady. The Cover of Harper’s Weekly. A Journal of Civilization, Vol. VII, No. 321, New York, Saturday, February 21, 1863. With Facsimile Signatures. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1863. Illustrated. First Edition. 2 pp. Fo. Disbound. The wedding portrait of General Tom Thumb and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, after a photograph taken by Matthew Brady. Detailed text on p. 2 vividly describes the guests and the event. Tom Thumb was near retirement after a celebrated career. Lavinia Warren was 20 years old, stood 32 inches tall and also worked for P. T. Barnum, who attended the wedding along with Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren, sister of the bride. Nutt, still shorter than Tom Thumb, was also a veteran of show business. The wedding took place in Grace Church in Manhattan and was reported in detail by the New York Herald. A few closed tears and small chips at margins. Small stain in right margin. Else Very Good. Price: $95.00 11095 [Sheet Music]. Liebling, Max.- The “Village Coquette” Polka. For the Piano. Op. 5. Cncinnati. John Church, Jr. 1868. Illustrated cover, lithograph by Bising & Co. First Edition. 8 pp. Fo. Disbound. Groce & Wallace (for Bising). Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (for Estelle Liebling). DNB for Mosler. Dedicated to Liebling’s cousin, Henry Mosler. The cover lithograph is by Bising. Thomas Bising (1817–84), artist and lithographer, was born in Switzerland and was active 1858–76 in Cincinnati. In 1868, he formed a partnership with Herman Gerlach, and they took over the firm of the noted chromolithographers, E. C. Middleton and W. R. Wallace. The partnership lasted but one year, They, however, reissued Middleton’s famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a portrait modified after the suggestions of Lincoln, himself. Max Liebling (1845–1927) was a popular pianist and composer who famously arranged Sousa marches into his Fantasia on Sousa Themes for the American violinist Maud Powell to perform on tour with Sousa’s band in 1905. He was part of a very musical family and, like his brothers, had studied wth Franz Liszt. His daughter, Estelle (1880–1970), was an illustrious opera soprano and teacher, singing also with Sousa’s Band and with a long career at the Metropolitan Opera and at the major European opera houses. As a teacher of many noted opera singers from Galli-Curci to Beverly Sills, she was known as ‘”the power behind the throat” She was married to the son of a noted American artist, Henry Mosler (1841–1920), to whom this music is dedicated,. “The Village Coquette” was the title and theme of a musical play written in 1836 by Charles Dickens and John Hullah (music) and produced then by John Braham. Dickens was then 24 yrs. old and Hullah, later an illustrious composer and teacher, was then a fellow pupil at the Royal Academy of Music with Dickens’s sister, Fanny. Lacks rear cover. Faint stamp of Cincinnati music dealer on cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 11093 Buchanan, Robert.- Charles Dickens. The Good Genie of Fiction. In Supplement to The Daily Bulletin, San Francisco, Vol. XXVII, No 10, p. 1. Saturday, October 18, 1873 San Francisco, CA. The Daily Bulletin. 1873. First Edition. 2 pp. Fo. Loose Newspaper as issued. A paean to Charles Dickens in a 1/3 column article in a San Francisco newspaper of 1873. Dickens is lauded for his capacity to see all in a distorted unique form of vision that replaces the heroes of popular myths with better examples from his fiction. Robert Buchanan (1841–1901) is the noted Scottish poet and literary critic, who at times published in Dickens’s “All the Year Round” and was famous for his attack on the Pre-Raphaelites. This article is taken from “The ’Good Genie’ of Fiction: Thoughts While Reading Forster’s ‘Life of Charles Dickens’”; it was originally published in St. Paul’s Magazine, X, pp. 130–48, Feb, 1872. It was reprinted in Buchanan’s “A Poet’s Sketch Book”, 1883, pp. 119–40. An extract can also be found in Philip Collins’s “Charles Dickens: The Critical Heritage”,1971, pp. 577–579. Very Good. Price: $65.00 11092 [Theatrical Program] Wieting Opera House, 1902–1903. M. Reis, Lessee; John L. Kerr, Manager. De Wolf Hopper and Company in a Musical Production, in Two Acts, Entitled Mr. Pickwick. Based on Dickens’ Masterpiece. Music by Manuel Klein. Book by Charles Klein. Lyrics by Grant Stewart. Friday and Saturday, March 27–28. [Syracuse, NY]. Wieting Opera House. [1903] Illustrated. First Edition. 12 pp. Numerous ads throughout. Oblong 12mo. Illustrated printed paper wraps. Stapled. http://www.halhkmusic.com/pickwick.html (for music from ”Mr. Pickwick”). N. Page, A Dickens Chronology, p. 129 (for Syracuse reading). The program for the 1903 performance of Mr. Pickwick, a musical play based on Charles Dickens’s novel. The Music was published by M. Witmark & Sons, a prominent NY publisher of the time. The cast and songs are listed for each of the two acts. The production with the same original cast was opened first by Everett R. Reynolds at the Herald Square Theatre in New York on January 19, 1903. The entire music and lyrics may be heard and seen on the Internet at http://www.halhkmusic.com/pickwick.html. This production, 2 months later, was at the famous Wietling Opera House in Syracuse, NY. The Wietling Opera House was an historic theatrical venue, famous as a tryout spot for Broadway productions, starring, among others, Lillian Russell, Victor Herbert and Helen Madjeska. It opened in 1851, donated by Dr. John Wieting, a noted physician and medical lecturer, and sited in Clinton Sq. (named after Gov. DeWtt Clinton), opposite the Erie Canal. It burned down and was rebuilt three times (e.g., see, N. Y. Times, July 20, 1881). Charles Dickens presented one of his famous readings from “A Christmas Carol” and “The Pickwick Papers” in this hall on March 9, 1868, during his second trip to America” Mild soilng of covers. Small chip from lower corner. Pencil notations inside both covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 11091 Greenwood, Cora Wilson, and Charles Dickens.- A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Story in One Act (Nine Staves). Adapted by Cora Wilson Greenwood. From the Story of the Same Name by Charles Dickens. New York. Samuel French. 1938. Illustrated with stage designs for each Stave. First Edition. 48 pp. + 4 pp. illustrations 16mo. Green printed stiff paper wraps. A 20th century play based on Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”. Cover soiled. Owner’s name on front cover in ink. Pencil annotations on 3 pages. Else, Good +. Price: $50.00 11089 Brochure] Charles Dickens. 1812–1870. An Anniversary Exhibition. Preview for The Friends of the Library, Friend’s Day, June 4, 1962. Henry E, Hntington Library and Art Gallery, June–December, 1962. San Marino, CA. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 1962. Illustrated. First Edition. 8 pp. (1 folded sheet) 4” W x 9” H. Single sheet. A brochure and catalogue of an exhibit to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Numerous letters and printed publications of Charles Dickens were shown and annotated in this brochure. Near Fine. Price: $10.00 11088 Dickens, Charles.- A Plated Article. N.P. [?New York, NY]. Printed by Tri- Arts Press N.D. Illustrated. (4 in full color) Later Edition. 21 pp. 8vo. Blue stiff paper wraps, titled on front cover in black and silver. Possibly a variant of Podeschi B221. An article by Dickens, originally written in 1852 and extracted from Household Words of that year. This is a later reprint edition of what was essentially a promotion for the Spode and Copeland. Co. This American edition may be a variant of thei ssue done for Boston’s Jones, McDuffe and Stratton Co. in 1878. Very Good. Price: $20.00 11087 Dickens, Charles.- A Plated Article. With an Introductory Account of the Historical Spode-Copeland China Works to Which It Refers. Stoke-upon-Trent, UK. W. T. Copeland & Sons. [ca. 1925]. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Spode and others (3 in full color) First Separate Edition. 20 pp. 8vo. Buff paper covered boards, titled on front cover Podeschi B222. An article by Dickens, original written in 1852 and now extracted from Household Words of that year. This is the first edition of what was essentially a promotion for the Spode and Copeland. Co. Mild wear at edges of boards. Else, Very Good. Price: $50.00 11086 Dickens, Charles (Editor).- The Wreck of the Golden Mary, Being the Captain’s Account of the Loss of the Ship, and the Mate’s Account of the Great Deliverance of Her People in an Open Boat at Sea. The Extra Christmas Number of Household Words. Conducted by Charles Dickens. Containing the Amount of One Number and a Half. New York. Dix, Edwards & Co. 1856. First American Edition. 36 pp. + publisher’s ads on 3 pp. of covers 8vo. Printed paper wraps. Sewn, as issued. Lohrli, p. 161. H. Stone, Uncollected Writings, II (esp. 563–9. This Extra Christmas Number for Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens, was written by Dickens (Part I), Wilkie Collins (Parts II and IV), and a collaboration including Percy Fitzgerald, A. A. Procter and others (Part III), a collaboration that is analyzed in detail by Stone (op. cit.). Considered one of the best of the Extra Christmas Numbers by Dickens (and others). For a discussion of Dickens’s aims in framing this narrative, his first literary collaboration with Wilkie Collins, see Anthea Trodd, “Collaborating in Open Boats: Dickens, Collins, Franklin, and Bligh”, Victorian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2. Indiana Univ. Press. The author proposes that Dickens and Collins, appalled by discussions of cannibalism on the open boat voyage of William Bligh and the ice-trapped John Franklin voyage, here attempt to restore the reputation of British seamen. Mild toning of covers. Mild loss at spine with a few closed tears and chips at edges of covers Owner’s signature in pencil on front wrap. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 11083 D’Israeli, B[enjamin].- Vivian Grey. Complete and Unabridged. Philadelphia, PA. T. B. Peterson. N.D. [ca.1854]. First Peterson Edition, likely 3rd or 4th American edition. “Three English Volumes Complete in One.” 223 pp. + publisher’s ads, front and rear. 8vo. Illustrated paper wraps. ”Portrait of B. D’Israeli, M.P., from a Likeness just published in London”, a wood engraving, on cover. The first novel - and probably his best- by Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), the illustrious 19th century British politician, reformer, author and twice Prime Minister. It was published, at first anonymously, in 1826, when Disraeli was only 22–3 yrs. old and just after a misguided investment in South American mining stocks with the noted publisher and friend, John Murray. It is considered a thinly disguised autobiographical retelling of Disraeli’s financial misadventures with Murray. In it is the first use in English of the word “millionaire” (OED: Vivian Grey, I. ix, “Were I the son of a Millionaire or a noble, I might have it all”). This Peterson publication is possibly derived from the 1827 or 1837 publication by Carey and Hart, from whom Peterson bought the rights to their publications (including the works of Charles Dickens). There was also a George M’Dowell edition, Baltimore, in 1833. The Peterson edition certainly dates from before 1857, while T. B. Peterson published alone (without his Brothers) at 102 Chestnut St. There is a grand illustration of Peterson’s publishing house on the rear cover. The absence of ads for the works of Dickens, probably places this publication to earlier in the 1850’s. Peterson had moved to this address in 1854 and left after a fire in 1857. Especially rare in wraps. Chips from edges of spine, but all lettering intact. Mild fraying of leading edge of front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $195.00 11080 Gilmore, Robert.- Alice in Quantumland. An Allegory of Quantum Physics. New York. Copernicus, An Imprint of Springer-Verlag. 1995. Illustrated by the author. Second Printng. 184 pp. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth spine. Titled in Gilt. Yellow paper covered boards. Illustrated D.J. A humorous explication of the principles of quantum mechanics through the medium of a trip by Alice through Quantumland. As New. Fine in Fine D.J. Price: $45.00 11074 Dickens, Charles.- A Christmas Carol. Printed in the Advanced Stage of Pitman’s Shorthand. New York. Isaac Pitman and Sons. N.D. First Edition (New Era Edition). 106 pp. 12mo. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt titling on front cover and spine. Charles Dickens' signature embossed in the blind on front cover. The classic tale of Scrooge, Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim by Charles Dickens, translated into Pitman shorthand. Dickens, in his youth a court reporter and stenographer, was said to be the fastest shorthand scribe in Britain, using a variant of Pitman's shorthand. Minimal wear at ends of spine. Small faint arcuate stain on front cover. Else, Very Good Price: $75.00 11070 The Smithsonian Institution, under the Authority of James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy. The Annular Eclipse of May 26, 1854. Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian Institution and Nautical Almanac. 1854. First Edition. 13 pp. + large folding chart by Charles Henry Davis, Lieut., USN. 8vo. Brown printed paper wraps. Michael J. de F. Maunder and Patrick Moore, The Sun in Eclipse, p. 70 (for the photographic methods used In the eclipse of 1854). The annular eclipse of 1854 was a quite important astronomical phenomenon. The pamphlet consists of tables of data used for calculating the position of the penumbra and the shadow of the eclipse over wide locations in the United States based on the time in Washington, DC. All the necessary formulas for the calculations are explicitly stated. Of this eclipse, Henry David Thoreau noted in his Journal that he was unable to see the eclipse because of the cloudy conditions in Concord, MA. The eclipse was especially important to astronomers because of the use of photography in its study. This eclipse was photographed by two methodologies, daguerreotype and Frederick Archer’s new wet plate method (collodion, later glass). The superior resolution and contrast of the daguerreotype was noted, but Archer’s method yielded higher sensitivity, and with further development, the ability to reproduce many copies of the image. Archer’s method, despite its fragility in measurement, became the standard, but daguerreotypes were revived in 1874 for recording the transit of Venus permitting the accurate calculation of earth-sun distances. James C. Dobbin (1814–57) was Secretary of the Navy and aggressive in his support of science. His aggression in support of the candidacy of Franklin Pierce in 1852 to the Presidency led to his appointment to the cabinet. He helped develop a strong Navy with new modern ships, the completion of Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition and treaty, and the charting of the Darien Gap for a prospective Panama Canal. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 43. This item is quite uncommon. Ex libris with one modest stamp at edge of title page. Edges of front covers heavily chipped, not involving text. Lacks rear cover. Chart separated at one vertical fold with all present. Else, Very Good. Price: $250.00 11057 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.- Hyperion, A Romance. Cambridge, MA. John Owen. 1845. Second Edition (so stated). 370 pp. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed BAL 12080. C. C. Calhoun, Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, 2004, p. 143. An early novel by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. HIs early novels were not favored early in his career as much as his poetry. Among the critics who reviled the book was Edgar A. Poe (Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1839). Over time, however, this book grew more appreciated and sales were substantial. The book’s hero travels through Germany, providing a sensitive portrayal of the country. There are autobiographical elements in the book: Longfellow’s prospective fiancée, Frances Appleton, was indeed repelled by his characterization of a woman thought to be inspired by her and did not accept him for four years. Longfellow reveals himself in the book as an admirer of H. Heine and Goethe. An uncommon edition. The First Edtion was pUblished in 2 volumes by Samuel Coleman in 1839; this edition in 1845 was revised considerably. Wear along all edges. Rear hinge nearly separated. Some fading of covers. Mildly cocked. Owner’s signature on front end paper:”Sarah Stone / November. 1845-”. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 11051 Ainsworth, William Harrison.- Pictorial Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard; the Most Noted Burglar, Robber, and Jail Breaker That Ever Lived. The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition Ever Published. Complete in One Volume. Embellished with Thirty-Nine Large Spirited illustrations Designed and Engraved in the Finest Style of Art by George Cruikshank, Esq., of London. Philadelphia, PA. T. B. Peterson. N.D. [1846–54, prob 1850] Illustrated with 27 facsimiles of Cruikshank’s illustrations, some composite, and a portrait of Ainsworth, a wood engraving, signed Hinckley. Second American Edition. 198 pp. + 16 pp. publisher’s ads at rear and on rear cover. 8vo. Tan illustrated paper wraps. Double column format. CBEL III, p. 471 ff. Sadleir, I, p. 4. AmImp 53885 (for Lea and Blanchard Edition). American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography - Volume 16, Number 1, 2006, pp. 103–114 (for Hinckley). “Jack Sheppard”, by W. H. Ainsworth (1805–1882) was first published serially in Bentley’s Miscellany (1839–40) and, on completion, issued in 3 volumes. Trained as a lawyer,Ainsworth, a friend of Charles Dickens and close member of his circle, introduced Dickens to the publisher Macrone, to George Cruikshank and to John Forster, who became Dickens closest friend. Ainsworth became the editor of Bentley’s Miscellany when Dickens resigned the post and later edited his own magazine. He wrote many novels, poems, etc,, some historical and often gothic, as here, celebrating the criminal and quasi-criminal elements of English life. The genre was known as Newgate Novels, after the notoripus London prison. This American edition is dated from the address of the publisher and from the ad for C. J. Peterson’s “Cruising in the Last War”, as just published. There was a previous 2 volume edition, contemporary with the first English edition, published in Philadelphia by Lea and Blanchard, from whom T. B. Peterson bought their publishing rights for at least the early works of Dickens and probably others. “Hinckley” was probably Cornelius T. Hinckley, b. in Massachusetts ca. 1820, a wood engraver active in Philadelphia 1845–57, whose writings on textiles, etc. and illustrations appeared in Godey’s Lady’s Book. This Peterson edition , especially in wraps, is a very rare item. Modest spotting and very mild browning of some page edges. Small chips from edges of covers and ends of spine. Crude tape repair of edges of front cover, but all text and images present and not encroached upon. Else, Very Good. Price: $375.00 11044 Meigs, J[ames] Aitken.- Observations upon the Cranial Forms of the American Aborigines, Based upon Specimens Contained in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.From the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, May, 1866, pp. 1–39. Together with an Als. from Meigs to Messrs. Fowler & Wells, Tipped on. Philadelphia. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1866. First Edition. 39 pp. + 1 p. letter. 12mo. Disbound. Ales˘ Hrdi ka, Contribution to the History of Physical Anthropology in the United States of America, with Special Reference to Philadelphia, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 87, No. 1. (July 14, 1943), pp. 61–64. James Aitken Meigs (1829–79) was a distinguished Philadelphia physician, professor at several Philadelphia medical colleges, a physiologist and physical anthropologist. While he engaged in medical practice, especially during the Civil War, he has an extensive research bibliography, chiefly devoted to ethnological and craniological subjects. According to the above referenced paper, the pioneer in physical anthropology in America was Dr. Samuel G. Morton, whose most important work was published in 1839 as Crania Americana, a comparative study of Native American crania collected by Morton. He died in 1851 and his most direct scholarly descendent was James Aitken Meigs, who completed the cataloguing of Morton’s collection, as detailed in this important paper. This tradition marks the Philadelphia beginnings of American studies of Physical Anthropology, an important branch of Human Biology, emphasized at the Wistar Institute of that city. Physical Anthropology was not an isolated field, but intersected with phrenology and other biological branches popular in Meigs’s time. Here is an important autographed letter signed by Meigs and addressed to [Lorenzo Niles] Fowler (1811–96) & [Samuel R]. Wells (1820–75). Its text is as follows: Philada./ No. 423 S. Broad St./ Oct. 10th 1866 Messrs. Fowler & Wells, / Gentlemen, Along with this I mail to your address a copy of a paper upon the crania of the American Indians, which has just been published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat. Sciences of this city. It embodies the first attempt to classify the crania of the native races of this continent. according to their ethnic forms. I have also endeavored to show that these races do not belong to one uniform cranial type- / Please notice the paper in your Journal. / Are you done with the wood-cuts I sent you? If so, please return them by Express & oblige/ Truly Yours &c./ Jas: Aitken Meigs. At the foot of the letter in another hand and pen is the notation: Save this. W [?Wells] This letter expresses the seriousness with which Phrenology was viewed by many scholars, writers, etc. at the time. Fowler & Wells had published the second edition (expanded) of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” in 1856 as well as Whitman’s own ‘anonymous’ review of his own work in 1855 in The American Phrenological Journal. Whitman had previously been examined phrenologically by Lorenzo Fowler and became a staff writer for “Life Illustrated”, a periodical published by Fowler & Wells. (M. B. Stern, Heads and Headlnes. The Phrenological Fowlers, 1971) ( for Whitman and Fowler).The scientific paper has a number of textual corrections in the hand of Meigs. Near Fine. Price: $650.00 11043 Dickens, Charles.- A Stray Set of Two Cards, Illustrated with Scenes from “The Old Curiosity Shop”, Each with an Appropriate Quotation from the Text: 1). Mr. Quilp’s Interview with the Marchioness. 2). Dick Swiveller Playing Cards with the Marchioness and Mr and Miss Brass at Play. London. Raphael Tuck & Sons. N.D. [ca. 1885]. Colored illustrations, chromolithographs by W. J. W. First Edition. Set of 2 cards. 3-7/8” W x 5-3/8” H. Loose cards, as issued, beautifully illustrated. Gilt edges. Lettered in gilt. On reverse is publisher’s logo of putti surrounding the framed publisher’s initials, RTS on an artists easel along with a palette, a well recognized trade mark. See Podeschi H1009-1014, H1033–1034, H1040-1041, for similar items From about 1880 to about 1902, Raphael Tuck issued popular sets of cards and postcards illustrating subjects from the novels of Charles Dickens, usually in sets of 6 cards in an envelope. The series were variously named, “In Dickens-Land”, “Oilette Series”, etc.. Here they are named “Artistic Series”. Many illustrators contributed, including Hablot K. Browne, “Kyd”, Frederic Barnard, Harold Copping, et al. Here the cards are signed W. J. W, without further identification (likely William J. Wiegand). The cards were issued in the official size accepted by the Universal Postal Union and under the leadership of Adolph Tuck, son of the founder, the company issued the first picture postcards and contributed to the popular craze of post card collecting. The company records and illustrations were destroyed in a bombing of London during World War II (December, 1940). These cards are dated from a similar set used and dated (Jarndyce #43607). They have the characteristic main illustration and a remarque in the corner. One card has very small chip from upper right corner and small bump on lower left corner. Other card completely intact. Very Good, Price: $80.00 11038 [Dickens, Charles] The Dickens Calendar for 1898. London and New York. Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton & Co. Printed in Bavaria. 1897. Illustrated by Frederic Barnard. First Edition. 6 cards. 7-3/8” W x 9-1/8” H. Six individual cards. Serrated edges. Perforated with two small holes for cord (not present) at top. Title and floral edge embossed on first card. Six large chromolithographed cards, each with a two-month calendar and an illustration and quotation from Charles Dickens: January-February, Betsy Trotwood and David, from “David Copperfield”; March-April, Mr. Jingle, from “Pickwick Papers”; May-June, Little Emily, from “David Copperfield”; July-August, Mr. Mantalini, from “Nicholas Nickleby”; September-October, Barnaby Rudge and Grip, from “Barnaby Rudge”; November-December, Miss Wardle and Mr. Tupman, from Pickwick Papers. Lower left corner chipped with small loss on Card 2, Lower right corner folded and braced on reverse with transparent tape, and tiny chip from upper edge, both on Card 6. Else, Very Good with bright clean images. Price: $175.00 11012 [Bewick][Slavery].- The Literary Miscellany: or, Selections & Extracts, Classical and Scientific; with Originals, in Prose and Verse. Didactic Poems by Various Authors.Comprisng: I. Moral Philosophy - Golden Verses of Pythagoras; The Natural Daughter; &c. &c. &c. II. Didactic Poetry. Chiron to Achilles, The Highhwayman’s Soliloquy; &c. &c. &c. III. Didactic Poems. True Greatness, by Hudson; Knowledge, by Mickle; &c. &c. &c. IV. Didactic Poetry. Judgement of Hercules; &c. &c. &c. London. Printed and Sold by G. Nicholson. N.D. [1799], 1801, 1802, 1807, 1808. ilIustrated with lovely vignette wood engravings, a few by Thomas Bewick. First Edition. 38, 38, 60, 62 pp. 18mo. Three quarters red morocco with marbled boards. ? A.e.g. Thomas Hugo, The Bewick Collector, No. 130. http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/140394282X.Pdf (p. 25, for “On Sugar”). With a beautiful bookplate on front pastedown, stating “From The Bewick Collection of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, and Described in ‘The Bewick Collector,’ No. (130).” Hugo was the author of “The Bewick Collector”, London, 1866. Notation in ink on reverse of front free end paper (presumably by Hugo), “with beautiful vignettes plates”. A wonderful assortment of verse admired in the first decade of the 19th century, dated in Hugo’s bibliography of Bewick as from 1799 on, assembled in sections numbered and dated separately, each section illustrated on the title page with a large wood engraving. Among the verses in the first section are a number expressing anti-slavery views, including the last poem, “On Sugar”, originally appearing in a newspaper in 1792 and here illustrated by the famous engraving of a kneeling Black man in chains, asking “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”. This latter engraving is after the famous illustration of one of William Cowper’s (1731–1800) ant-slavery poems (”The Negro’s Complaint” of 1788) and the medallion created by Josiah Wedgewood in 1787 as part of his anti-slavery campaign. The design for Wedgewood’s cameo medallion is attributed to either William Hackwood or Henry Webber, both of whom worked as modelers in the Wedgewood factory. It also appeared at the head of an 1835 broadside. which printed the anti-slavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier “My Countrymen in Chains”. The image had been adopted as its seal by the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England as early as 1787. Covers quite worn: spine chipped at ends, hinges cracked, but cords intact. Corners worn and covers abraded. Internally, Very Good. Price: $375.00 10606 Barnum, P[hineas] T[aylor].- Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum. Written by Himself. Hartford. J. B. Burr & Company. 1870. Illustrated by Fay and Cox, of New York. Full page wood engraved plates. Frontispiece portrait of Barnum. First Edition (? Second Printing). 780 pp. + 2 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. 8vo. Full tan contemporary calf with black leather labels on spine, lettered in gilt. The later version of P. T. Barnum’s (1810–1891) autobiography, which he revised throughout his subsequent life. His tome is revealing of many of his ups and downs, the Jenny Lind sponsorship, General Tom Thumb, commentary on noted producers, actors and prominent people of his days, bankruptcy of his American Museum, etc. A fascinating account and a revealing saga of 19th century theatrical and social life. Hinges starting at foot. Wear at foot of spine. Foxing of frontispiece and its tissue guard. Offsetting of frontispiece to title page. Mild water stain on end papers. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 8600 [Broadside]. Anonymous .- Redington's Characters in Oliver Twist. No.5. London. J. Redlington. N.D. Woodblock illustrations. First Edition. 1 p. 8vo sheet. Appears disbound. Podeschi C35. VanderPoel B109(1), (2), 110. Suzannet, E.35. W. Dexter,The Dickensian, Vol.XXIX, No. 225, 1932/33, pp.37–40. Rather crudely done illustrations of some of the characters and scenes from Dickens' "Oliver Twist." From an early edition of what is known from Podeschi as "Pollocks' Juvenile Drama. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. A Drama. With Plates Adapted Only for Pollock's Characters and Scenes" The address, at 73 Hoxton Street, in the Gimbel issue is the same as provided for Redington on this plate. Redington had been a predecessor of Pollock and was his father-in-law. The plates were issued separately from the text of the play, which was claimed to be the only juvenile dramatization of Dickens' works. Even in Pollock's edition, some of the plates retained the Redington attribution. No date is listed. Podeschi estimates ca.1860, while a similar production in the VanderPoel collection estimates the date to be ca. 1839. Lacks small chip from corner, not involving text or illustrations. Else, Very Good Price: $100.00 7635 von Kölliker, [Rudolph] Albert. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Höheren Thiere. Leipzig. Wilhelm Engelmann. 1879. Numerous Illustrations. Second Edition, Entirely Revised. 1033 pp. 8vo. Rebound. Library Buckram. Garrison, History of Medicine, 4th Ed., 461-2. Garrison-Morton 487. Heirs of Hippocrates, 1848. Pickering & Chatto, Cat. 758 (for abridgement). Comprehensive Text in Its Best Edition by the 19th C. Early Master of Embryology . Garrison Considers Him the Greatest Early Histologist after Henle. The First to Show that Spermatozoa were Cellular, Derived from the Testis, and Capable of Fertilizing the Ovum. He Considered the Nucleus as the Transmitter of Heredity. He Authored This, the First Textbook of Comparative Embryology (First Edition, 1861), and Was Instrumental in Renaming X-Rays as "Roentgen Rays" after Their Discoverer. This Second Edition Emphasizes Human Development. Kölliker Describes the Differentiation of Embryonic Tissue as Part of the Formation of Complex Organ Systems. The Woodcut Illustrations Are Mostly after Kölliker's Own Prepared Specimens. Ex Libris. Bookplate and Notations of Rockefeller University. Title Page Perforated Stamp of Rockefeller Institute. Otherwise Very Good. Price: $325.00 6878 [Lester, Charles Edwards].- The Life of Sam Houston. (The Only Authentic Memoir of Him Ever Published.). New York. J. C. Derby. 1855. 10 plates, including 3 maps and a frontispiece portrait of Houston, designed by J[acob A.]. Dallas and engraved by N[athaniel] Orr. Tissue guards Second Edition. 402 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Brown publisher’s cloth. Blindstamped decoration of cover. Gilt titling on spine Howes L271. Sabin 33191. Raines, p.225. Groce & Wallace, pp. 162 (for Dallas) and 479 (for Orr) First 262 pages previously published as “Sam Houston and His Republic” in 1846. This edition with added material published likely as a campaign biography for Houston for the US Presidency. As an inexpensive, rushed book, it has suffered in condition.Jacob Dallas (1825–57), originally from Philadelphia, was a painter and book illustra tor in NY. Orr , in the 1850’s, was one of the leading wood engravers in America. Cover much faded. Spine disintegrating. Shaken. Mild tidal staining and foxing. Lower corners torn from rear end papers. Overall Poor to Fair. Price: $95.00 6465 Cooper, Brevet Captain S.- A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States, Comprehending the Exercises and Movements of the Infantry, Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery; Together with the Manner of Doing Duty in Philadelphia. Robert P. DeSilver. 1836. Numerous illustrations. First Edition 282 pp. + 4 pp. recommendations. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth. Printed paper label on spine. Am. Imp. 36933. A substantial manual of military manoeuvres and drills. It may be built upon Winfield Scott’s “Abstract of Infantry Tactics” of 1830. Each of the four parts is also separately paginated: 128, 48, 35, 70 pp. A large number of pages of drum beats and bugle calls are included. 4 pages of endorsements at rear. Owner’s signature in ink on front pastedown and on title page. Supervising Major Gen. Alexander Macomb also wrote on Courts Martial. Label abraded. Mild wear at ends of spine. Foxing. Mildlly shaken.Else, Very Good. Price: $325.00 6439 Clemens, Samuel L. (pseudonym: Mark Twain).- The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress. being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City’s Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures as They Appeared to the Author. With Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Hartford, CT. American Publishing Co. (by subscription only) 1871. Illustrated by Fay & Cox, NY. First American Edition, Third State. 651 pp. + 5 pp. publisher’s ads. Brown publisher’s cloth with beveled edges and elaborate gilt titling on spine. Covers embossed in the blind. Heavy gilt titling and illustration on front cover. Chocolate coated end papers. BAL 3316. Wright III, p. 550. Barbara Schmidt, http://www.twainquotes.com/TWW/TWW.html (for Truman Williams) Copyright 1869. This appears to be the third state of the first edition (page numbers in Contents. Chapter LXI on p. 643. Last entry in Contents: “Thankless Devotion - A Newspaper Valedictory - Conclusion. 638”. Image of Napoleon III on p. 129. On p. 645, ads for Bible). Many of the illustrations are full page. The two frontispieces are protected by a tissue guard. Twain’s second major book, a form of travel book with satire. The illustrations were actually done by Truman (”True”) W. Williams (1839–97), shortly after he joined the firm of Augustus Fay and Stephen J. Cox in New York. Fay and Cox was a syndicated illustration business, which provided illustrations and engravings to the subscription publishing houses, especially those in Hartford. Such publications were less exalted than the conventional form of publishing, but Williams was proud of its democratic roots. His work with Twain was admired and led to contracts with Bret Harte and others. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Front hinge cracked. Mild toning of page ends. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free end paper: “J.(?) M. Lamb / Worcester - ”. Else, Very Good –. Price: $375.00 6303 Barnum, Phineas T[aylor].- The Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself. New York. Redfield. 1855. Illustrated with wood engravings. Frontispiece portrait of Barnum. First Edition. 404 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue. 12mo. Original purplish brown publisher’s cloth. Covers ruled in the blind. Titled in gilt on spine. T.e.g. Sabin 3564. Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–1881) was America’s premier showman of the nineteenth century. This is the earliest edition of his memoir, incorporating details of his relationship with Tom Thumb, Jenny Lind et al. Front hinge separated between copyright page and Preface. Wear at ends of spine with fading. Shaken. Foxing of endpapers. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 6086 Lloyd, John Uri.- Etidorhpa, or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey. New York Dodd, Mead and Co. 1914. Illustrated by J. Augustus Knapp. Eleventh Edition (Revised and Enlarged). 375 pp. 8vo Red illustrated publisher’s cloth, titled in grey on spine and front cover. Cover illustrated with a stylized Egyptian figure and lotus flowers. Title page printed in red and black, with decorative border. First Complete Edition of this work of science fiction; the title is Aphrodite, spelled backwards. The book was first issued privately in 1895. In this, the Eleventh Edition, much new material was added to the book, which the author describes in the Preface as a story within a story. The new material reflexively returns to subjects of earlier chapters. There are, in all, 59 chapters in the 375 pp. book. The narrator is led on a tour of the interior of the earth, entered through a cave in Kentucky, by an eyeless humanoid. There he is instructed on higher forms of love (hence, Aphrodite). Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Spine and edges of covers abraded with fading. Tidal mark in gutter of last 2 signatures. Else, Very Good. Price: $300.00 Charles Dickens and Dickensiana Charles Dickens was arguably the greatest English novelist of the Nineteenth Century. Despite his criticism of America, he was at least as popular here as in England and there was great commotion about the publication of his works in America. Some of his books, like "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," have fostered an entire literary industry. We offer a very large assortment of primary and secondary material on Dickens, including many of the American first editions, generally scarcer than the English Firsts. Because this large set of offerings can be unwieldy, we have broken it up at random into several pages of Dickens and Dickensiana. Be sure to look them all over. Dickens, Page One 11023 Dickens, Charles.- Little Dorrit. With Fifty-Eight Illustrations by J. Mahoney. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1873. First Edition of Harper’s Miscellaneous Popular Novels. 354 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s ads. 4to. Green illustrated publisher's paper wraps. Double column format. Podeschi D68 and D66(English issue). Wilkins, pp.46–7 (American issue). Jarndyce CXIII. Dickens’s great novel in the rare wraps issue, derived from The Household Edition, which was issued in 22 volumes (with Forster's "Life"), published in the period 1871–1879; it was the first edition after Dickens' death and had new illustrations by Barnard and others. In America, this edition was published by Harper & Brothers (in 1872–1877) in a new typesetting and, a bit earlier, as a local issue of the English (Chapman & Hall) edition, by D. Appleton. Harpers did not use all the illustrations of the English edition, substituting in some volumes illustrations by American artists Here the illustrations are by Mahoney, an English artist of the mid-19th century. Mahoney was “an uneducated London waif [who] was accepted in the world of illustration for a time because of his gift as a draftsman, but his objectionable habits kept him always on the edge of disaster. The very somberness of his life made logical the Dalziels’ choice of Mahoney as their illustrator in the Household Edition for those novels in which the darker side of London life was Dickens’s primary concern…He is in far closer harmony with Dickens’s text than is Phiz in [”Little Dorrit”]” (Gordon N. Ray, ”The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914” Dover, p. 137). Rare in wraps. Owner’s names at head of front cover. Wear at head, tail and edges of spine and at corners. Mild soiling of covers. Front cover detached, with a few small chips not encroaching on text or images. Else, Very Good . Price: $150.00 10879 [Sheet Music]. Stange, Stanislaus (Words), and Jukian Edwards (Music).- Dollie Varden. Dick. (Song). New York. M. Witmark & Sons. 1901. First Edition. 5 pp. Small Fo. Printed and decorated paper wraps. A parodic version of Dickens’s “Dolly Varden”, as invented by him, in a turn of the 20th century popular comic opera. Among publisher’s ads on back cover is a listing of the various songs published separately for this “Dainty Comic Opera … as produced by the Lulu Glaser Opera Co.”. There were Broadway productions of this opera from 1902 to 1903. Hugh “Stanislaus Strange (1862–1917), librettist and lyricist. Born in Liverpool, he came to America in 1881 and embarked on a career of acting and playwriting. His biggest success was his dramatization of the novel ‘Quo Vadis’ (1900). However, Stange was most in demand as a lyricist and librettist, working often with Julian Edwards. At least eighteen of his musicals reached New York, among them ‘Madeleine’ (1895), Brian Boru (1896) ‘The Wedding Day’ (1897), ‘The Jolly Musketeer“ (1898), and his best work, ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’ (1902). he enjoyed his longest run with his adaptation of Oscar Straus’s Viennese favorite, ‘The Chocolate Soldier’ (1909), which he also directed” (Answers. Com). Julian Edwards (1855–1910) was an English composer; he studied with Oakeley and Macfarren and was Kappelmeister at Londoner Covent Garden Opera and was “conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1888 James C. Duff brought him to New York and produced his first show to reach Broadway, Jupiter (1892). Between that premiere and his death eighteen years later he wrote the scores for seventeen New York musicals. Among the best received or more interesting were King René's Daughter (1893), Madeleine (1895), The Goddess of Truth (1896), The Wedding Day (1897), The Jolly Musketeer (1898), Princess Chic (1900), Dolly Varden (1902), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1902), Love's Lottery (1904), and The Girl and the Wizard (1909). Although none of his music remains popular, he was highly respected in his own time, and his work was sufficiently admired to lure such stars as Lillian Russell, Jefferson De Angelis, Della Fox, Christie MacDonald, and Lulu Glaser.” (Answers.com) He died in New York. A very uncommon bit of Dickensiana. Price: $175.00 10886 Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.- Dining with Dickens a Delmonico’s. A illustrious Friendly Relations Assembly as Revealed in the Contents of an Old Trunk. In a Whole Single Issue of “The Bookman”, Vol. XLIX, No. 1. March, 1919, pp. 20–28. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1919. First Edition. 9 pp. 8vo. Blue printed paper wraps. William Edgar Sackett and John James Scannell, “Scannell’s New Jersey First Citizens” ( for Kate Sweetser). Obituary, N. Y. Times, February 18, 1870 (for Henry E. Sweetser) The story of Dickens’s New York dinner witth the Press on April 18, 1868. This story is written by Kate Dickinson Sweetser (d. 1939), an author of stories about children in Dickens’s (and others’) works, and is based on a collection of manuscript material and documents she found in a trunk belonging to Henry E. Sweetser, a relative (? uncle), whose efforts almost alone carried out this great celebration of Dickens, just prior to his departure from America on his second visit here in 1868. Dickens’s relations with the American Press became strained on his first visit to America in 1842, but this breach was repaired greatly by the occasion of this dinner, to which Dickens came amidst great suffering from foot pain, probably caused by acute gout. Kate Swetser was a cousin of the poet Emily Dickinson; she had been born in New York City, the daughter of Charles H. and Mary N. Sweetser and lived in New Jersey. Her father was a journalist and editor, a partner with Henry Sweetser. Another story in this issue, “Tatania Arrives”, concerning a bookshop is by Christopher Morley. Chips and closed tears at edges of wraps. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 10895 Dickens, Charles.- Hard Times, Chs. XXXI & XXXII. in The Evening Post [New York], Weekly. Volume XIII. No. 33. Thursday, August 17, 1864, p.4 William C. Bryant & Co. 1854. First Edition. 4 pp. Newspaper. Large Fo. Not bound. Folded. A reprinting of two chapters from Charles Dickens’s novel “Hard Times”. Probably one part in the serial publication of Dickens’s novel in this New York newspaper in the same year as the book publication. Likely this was a piracy, as was all too frequent in reprinting Dickens’s works in America. In his first visit to America in 1842, Dickens raised the issue of the lack of respect in America for the idea of international copyright, for he rankled at the frequent piracies of his work in this country. In doing so he incurred the ire of the American Press. Some amends were made at the press dinner for Dickens on the second visit of the author to America in 1867–8. The New York Evening Post was a distinguished newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton. It prospered under the editorship of William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), a poet, lawyer and journalist, who supported the Abolitionists and introduced Lincoln in 1860 at the Cooper Union. Bryant must have been aware of Dickens feelings about piracy of his works, but there is no record of recompense to Dickens by this or the many other newspapers and most publishers who printed his work. America did not join the international copyright protection till the 1890’s. “Hard Times”, originally published in Britain in 1854, was a social novel in which Dickens held forth against Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism,; he argued for the role of ‘feelings’ in education, as opposed to the emphasis on ‘facts’; and he showed his early awareness of problems and inequities for the working class in the Industrial Revolution. Hinge mildly separating. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 7952 Dickens, Charles (attrib.)- Hobbledehoy. A Poem in the "Portland Transcript. An Independent Family Journal of Literature, News, &c." Portland, Maine, Saturday, March 5, 1851. Volume XIV, Number 48, p.384. Portland, ME. Gould & Elwell. 1851. First Edition, as such. 8 pp. (whole issue) Fo. Unbound newspaper. Harry Stone, "Uncollected Writings from 'Household Words','' Vol. II. p. 511. Allegedly a Dickens poem appearing in a weekly newspaper from Maine. Prominently placed on the last page. A possible piracy and an early American edition of this poem. Pending identity of Its source, it is not certain that Dickens himself wrote it. According to Harry Stone, for "Household Words", for example, it appears that Dickens himself wrote only one poem ("Hidden Light", with Adelaide Anne Procter) among the many in the nine years of publication. Carolyn W. and Laurence H. Houtchens, however, argue strongly (Three Early Works Attributed to Dickens, Pub.MLA, vol. 59, No. 1, Mar. 1944, pp. 226-235) that the poem is by Dickens, having first appeared in America in the reputable New-York Mirror, edited by George Pope Morris in August, 1841, at that time attributed to “Boz”, Other interesting items include a poem by Shelley and a joke about the atheism of Rhode Island. Hinge of fold Is cracked. A few small stains. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 10756 Dickens, Charles.- Pictures from Italy. [New York]. [W. H. Colyer]. [1846]. First American Edition under this title. 64 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Double column format. Podeschi A101. Edgar & Vail, p. 23. Wilkins, pp. 27–8. Dickens’s ”Letters [to John Forster from Italy]” were first published serially in early 1846 by “The Daily News”, with the first American separate issue published by Wiley & Putnam’s Library of Choice Reading as “Travelling Letters. Written on the Road”. Modified and adapted further as “Pictures from Italy”, it was issued by Colyer, also in 1846. Very uncommon. Lacks original paper wraps. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10758 Hanaford, Phebe A.- The Life and Writings of Charles Dickens: A Women’s Memorial Volume. Boston. B. B. Russell. 1871. Frontispiece portrait and signature of Dickens (with tissue guard), engraved on steel by F. T. Stuart of Boston. First Edition. 401 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Small 8vo. Reddish purple publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and facsimile Dickens signature in front cover. Beveled boards Podeschi H230. NCBEL III, 828. M. Fielding, Groce & Wallace, Stauffer I, 263 (for Stuart). Original Copyright by P.A.H. was 1870. It was issued by two publishers, E. C. Allen of Maine and this Boston issue. Dedicated to the Women of America. A scarce biography with well selected extracts from Dickens' work illustrating the biographical points. The frontispiece portrait of Dickens was engraved on steel by F[rederick] T. Stuart (1837–1913) was a prominent Boston engraver, with many published engraved portraits. He worked originally in New York, later (after 1857) in Boston. published shortly after Dickens’ death, this is his first biography by a woman and one of the earliest of all. Owners’ signatures on front free end paper. Front hinge starting internally. Spine fading. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Pages yellowing. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10763 Chaudhry, Ghulam Ali.- Dickens and Hawthorne. In Essex House Historical Collections. Vol. C, No. 4, October, 1964, pp. 256–273 Salem, MA. Essex Institute. 1964. First Edition. 17 pp. (whole number, 84 pp.). 8vo. Grey prnted and illustrated stiff paper wraps. An interesting article on the views of Hawthorne and Dickens on one another in a single whole issue, The Special Hawthorne Issue. of The Essex institute Historical Collections. Interesting comments on the fanciful in Hawthorne and Dickens, who may not have met, except that Hawthorne was invited to the great Boston dinner at Papanti’s Hall for Dickens in 1842 (it is not clear that Hawthorne went). The rest of the issue has important commentary on Hawthorne. Slight soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $40.00 10769 Barnard, Frederick- A Set of Six Postcards with Full Images of Characters from Dickens’ Works, Drawn by Barnard. London. Cassell and Co. N.D. [ca. 1900–10] Illustrated by F. Barnard. First Edition. 6 cards. 3 1/2” x 5 1/2”. Unbound. Six individual postcards, calling for Halfpenny Stamp for local delivery and i Penny Stamp for foreign delivery. A set of six unused sepia postcards with the superb illustrations by Frederick Barnard (1846–96) of Dickens characters. Each postcard shows the image along with an appropriate quotation from the novel for which the illustration was drawn. We have elsewhere seen an identical postcard, postmarked 1907. The characters in this set are: Little Dorrit, Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Captain Cuttle, The Two Wellers, Mr. Pickwick. Barnard, who worked in New York and London (for Punch and the Illustrated London News) as an engraver and illustrator, often drew for Harper Brothers publications in America. These illustrations first appeared (1870–79) in the Household Edition of Dickens’ Works for Chapman & Hall and for Harpers. They were immensely popular. Mild bumping of a few corners. The image of The Two Wellers” is toned. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 10794 Dickens, Charles.- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Edited by “Boz.” Embellished with a Portrait. New York. William H. Colyer. 1838. Frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi, an early lithograph by N. Currier, with tissue guard. Second American Edition, Second State. 232 pp. 12mo. Blue paper covered boards and tan linen spine. Printed paper label (lacking). T.e.g. Podeschi, B66. VanderPoel B602(1) .Conningham (Revised) 3297. “The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi” was edited with an introduction by a young Charles Dickens only 2 years after his first major literary production, “The Pickwick Papers”.. The text presented to Dickens was a long discursive manuscript, which he edited and rewrote heavily, also providing the “Introductory Chapter” and, possibly, the “Concluding Chapter”. It was published first in England by Bentley in two volumes with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The first American edition was also in two volumes published in Philadelphia. This second edition was a one-volume production by William Colyer, published in the same year as the First Edition. Both American editions did not include Cruikshank’s illustrations. The Colyer edition was issued in two states: in the first state, signatures 3 & 4 were both labeled “3”, corrected in the second state. The frontispiece lithograph is an early production by Nathaniel Currier, who had opened his shop only three years earlier. Lacks label on spine. Wear chiefly at edges of board and front hinge. Signature 3 mildly shaken. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $300.00 10806 Whipple, Edwin P.- Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life. Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1850 [1849] First Edition. (Catalogue at front dated October 1, 1849; it notes Longfellow’s “Evangeline” just published; owner’s stamp dated Oct. 1849). 218 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue at front. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Titled in gilt on spine. Tryon & Charvat, A162b. A series of lectures, mostly on wit and humor in literature by Edwin P. Whipple (1819–86), the noted 19th Century critic, essayist and Editor of Dickens’s Works. The first essay in the volume comments on the changing reputation of authors through their lives. There follows.an extended consideration of Dickens as an author and a person, showing through his characters Dickens’s personal characteristics and effectiveness as a man. Two of the six lectures, perhaps Whipple’s most famous, discuss “Wit and Humor” and “The Ludicrous Side of Life”. Ex libris with library stamp on title page dated Oct., 1849, from the Boston Mercantile Library where some of these lectures were delivered. According to Tryon & Charvat, this first edition, published on October 3, 1849, was printed in only 750 copies and sold out in 10 days. Wear at ends of spine. Corners bumped. Front cover soiled. Chip from cloth on rear cover. Else. Very Good. Price: $110.00 10815 Lambert, Samuel W.- When Mr. Pickwick Went Fishing. With Eleven Ilustrations by Robert Seymour New York. Edmond Byrne Hackett. The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc. 1924. Illustrated. First Edition. 83 pp. 12mo. White publisher’s cloth spine with printed paper label. Green paper covered boards. illustrated D.J. P. Van Ingen, Bull. NY Acad. Med., Vol. 18 (4), April, 1942. pp. 293–6 (for Lambert). This volume reopens the case put forward by the family of Robert Seymour, the first illustrator of Charles Dickens’s “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, his first novel and the one that established Dickens’s enormous reputation. Dickens had denied the claims of the Seymours that Robert Seymour, a noted illustrator, who committed suicide after only two issues of the serial novel had been published, had conceived of Mr. Samuel Pickwick prior to knowing Dickens and had illustrated him and many of his personal characteristics before Dickens had been hired by Chapman & Hall Publishers to provide text to Seymour’s illustrations of the sporting gentleman. The author of this study presents a cogent case in support of the Seymours, who had been harshly dismissed by Dickens and his biographer, John Forster. The author of this study was Dr. Samuel W. Lambert (1859–1942), an advocate for women’s care in pregnancy and parturition, Dean of Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons, engineer of the merger of the medical college and its hospital, President of the New York Academy of Medicine, a prominent bibliophile and donor to the latter’s distinguished library of rare medical books. Inscribed by author to Lewis M. Thompson. who may have been the Lewis M. Thompson found, with the notorious adventurer and soldier of fortune, George B. Boynton, to be the targets of an investigation in 1906 for the counterfeiting of Venezuela’s silver currency in anticipation of their fostering a revolution in that country. (New York Times. Wednesday, September 19, 1906, p. 4). Near Fine. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Price: $75.00 6743 Hervey, Thomas Kibble].- The Book of Christmas; Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season. New York. Wiley & Putnam. 1845. First American Edition. 220 pp. + publisher's ads 8vo. Green Publisher's Cloth. A rather complete analysis of Christmas traditions in England (at the time of publication of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”) by Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859). It shows that the commmodification of Christmas and Its secularization were already well underway by the time of “The Carol.” It traces the history of Plum Pudding, Mistletoe Conventions, and Reminisces, among Others, on Joseph Grimaldi’s Pantomimes in the Christmas Season. The history of the oral traditions of Christmas. including what became "ghost stories" is discussed. A Very Important Complement to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Publisher’s Ads Include One for Poe’s Tales and Hawthorne's edition of "Journal of an African Cruizer" with comments on the Liberian Colony. The original publication was by W. Spooner in London in 1836. It was, remarkably, illustrated by Seymour, perhaps his last work except for "Pickwick." Spine faded and chipped, especially at head and tail. Corners bumped. Few stains on covers. Top edges gilt. Minimal foxing internally. Else, a Very Good tight copy. Price: $250.00 10621 Gibson, Charles Dana.- “Mr. Pickwick Delivering His Famous Oration”. From People of Dickens. Drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. New York. R. H. Russelll 1897. First Edition. 1 p. Fo. (Image: 9 1/2” x 14 7/8”. Sheet: 17 1/4” x 22 7/8” Single sheet. A superb illustration by Charles Dana Gibson of Mr. Samuel Pickwick delivering his oration to the assembled Pickwick Club. Gibson (1867–1944) was an illustrious artist and illustrator at the turn of the 19th century. He defined the look of fashionable women in his era by the illustrations he drew for Life, Collier’s, Scribner’s and other magazines. During World War I, he led the group of illustrators doing war posters for the US Government. Among his portfolios is one with six illustrations of characters from Charles Dickens’s Works. This one, of Mr. Pickwick is the most dramatic and characteristic of the six. Here it is presented alone, professionally restored to Fine condition. Fine. Price: $550.00 10691 Wagenknecht, Edward.- Dickens and the Scandalmongers. Essays in Criticism. Norman, OK. University of Oklahoma Press. 1965. First Edition. 162 pp. 8vo. Tan publisher's cloth. Illustrated D.J, Gilt titling. T.e. dyed orange Contains a long essay on Dickens' relationship with Ellen Ternan, as well as other more literary essays on Dickens and Longfellow, Katherine Mansfield, Ellen Glasgow, Edmund Wilson and others. Attacks the critics who derogate Dickens and Ellen Ternan on little evidence. Wagenknecht was Professor of English at Boston University. Else, As New. Price: $32.00 10583 Dickens, Charles.- Sketches by Boz and Early Minor Works. Bloomsbury, London. Nonesuch Press. 1938. First Edition of Nonesuch Edtion, Limited to 877 Copies. 817 pp. Large 8vo. Tan publisher’s cloth and black leather label on spine, decorated, ruled and titled in gilt. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed. A single volume from the Nonesuch Dickens, the great edition of 1937–8, designed by Francis Meynell. A triumph of modern book design. This volume includes “Sketches by Boz” in both parts and early “minor” works (Sunday under Three Heads, Bentley’s Miscellany, Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Sketches of Young Couples, Master Humphrey’s Clock). Illustrations, from the original plates, clean and crisp, with minor offsettig to oposite pages. The text is from the Chapman & Hall “Charles Dickens Edition” (1867), which Dickens himself revised. The illustrations were reprinted, wherever possible, from original plates and woodblocks. Mild soiling of cover. Mild browning of page edges. Else, Very Good Price: $475.00 10592 [Tuck, Adolph].- Tuck’s Post Cards. Series No. 6012. “The Pickwick Papers”. Six in a Packet. London. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. N.D. [ca. 1905–10]. Six “Oilettes” after the original pictures by “Phiz”. First Edition 6 cards. 3 7/16” W x 5 7/16” H The cards are housed in the original printed envelope. A complete set of six postcards with colored illustrations after “Phiz” from “Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens. These illustrious illustrations speak for themselves, for Dickens and for “Phiz”. They comprise Set #6912 of “Oilette” cards by Raphael Tuck & Sons, complete with the proper tan envelope printed in red. Raphael Tuck & Sons, of London, was a prominent publisher of art reproductions from 1866 and early modern postcards, beginning with a view of Mt. Snowden (Wales) in 1894 and a first numbered series of London views in 1899. The early printing by chromolithography with multiple stones was done in Germany. They used embossed and hand-cut dies. Designated Art Publishers to the Queen by Victoria in a royal warrant of 1893, their plant was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940 during World War II. Tuck led the campaign for a standard full-size (3.5” x 5.5”) card in 1899 and for the split-back card (separate address and message sections) in 1902. Postcards Near Fine. Cracking of envelope along folds of flap and one edge with mild wear at corners. Mild soiling of envelope. Else, Very Good. 100.00 10592 Price: $100.00 10493 Dickens, Charles.- The Holly Tree. East Aurora, NY. The Roycrofters. 1903. Borders by Samuel Warner; typography by Newell Q. Whitr; presswork by George Parker. First Edition in this format. 66 pp. 8vo Greenish tan suede with cartouche in the blind and gilt titling on front cover. Moiré silk pastedowns. T.e.g. Each page titled in red. The usual elegant, if archaic, production of Hubbard and the Roycrofters. Slight wear at edges of cover. Mild browning of pages at edges. Else, Very Good. Price: $60.00 10500 Dickens, Charles, (Chapman, T. J., Editor).- Schools and Schoolmasters. From the Writings of Charles Dickens. New York and Chicago. A. S. Barnes & Company. 1871 Illustrated by Phiz. First Edition. 232 pp. 12mo. Pinkish brown publisher’s cloth, decorated and lettered in the blind on both covers. Titled and decorated in gilt on the spine. T.e.g. Podeschi D64. Selections from 3 Dickens Novels, “Nicholas Nickleby, æDombey and Sonæ and “David Copperfield”, on schools and schoolmasters. Quite uncommon. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Slight soiling of covers. Foxing of only a few pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10503 Miller, J. Hillis and David Borowitz.- Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar on May 9, 1970. Wit an Introduction by Ada Nisbet. Berkeley, CA. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 1971. Illustrated. First Edition. 99 pp. 8vo. Orange stiff paper wraps with grey printing on cover and spine. An outstanding review of Cruikshank’s relationship with Dickens by J. Hillis Miler and David Borowitz. Scholarly and authoritative. Very Good Price: $55.00 10507 Corelli, Marie [Mary Mackay].- The Strange Visitation. London. Hodder and Stoughton. N.D. [1912]. Second Edition (First Book Edition). 188 pp. 12mo. Red publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling and decoration on spine. Salmanson, www.violetbooks.com/corelli.html This book was originally published in 1904 as “The Strange Visitation of Josiah McNason: A Ghost Story” in magazine format, in Strand Magazine by George Newnes. It did not achieve book format until this 1912 publication by Hodder & Stoughton. It is a ghost story of Christmas, clearly derived from Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”. Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was born Mary Mackay in London, the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish poet Dr. Charles Mackay. She lived a very bohemian life, likely lesbian, and was a prolific author of romance, fantasy. spiritual and mystical stories and novels, easily outselling H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and others. Much of her work made it to silent film, including “The Sorrows of Satan” by D. W. Griffith, starring Adolph Menjou, Ricardo Cortez and Carol Dempster. Covers soiled and spotted. End papers browned. Owner’s signature on front free end paper and ink markings on front pastedown. Else, Good +. Price: $75.00 10518 [Pamphlet]. Gordon, Elizabeth Hope.- The Naming of Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens, Lincoln, Nebraska. University of Nebraska. 1917. First Edition. 35 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey printed stiff paper wraps. Stapled. An interesting article on Dickens’s naming of his characters. Some of the names came from real people, many of whom have been identified. Many names were applied as a reflection of the character and behavior, appearance or personality of the novel’s character, hence were directly descriptive. Some reflected the occupation of the person, and some were suggestive of types or corruptions of punning, yet some, in fact, were neutral Overall, Dickens showed a whimsical humor in name selections. Yellowing of edges of covers. Slight wear at hinge of covers. Small chip from lower corner, front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10520 Steig, Michael.- Dickens and Phiz. Bloomington and London. Indiana University Press. 1978. Profusely illustrated. First Edition. 340 pp. 8vo. Purple publisher's cloth. Illustrated D.j. The story of an important literary collaboration, where the illustrations do not merely decorate the text, but comment upon it. "Phiz," one of the great illustrators of the nineteenth century, exercised more autonomy than had been suspected previously. Slight wear at edges of D.J. Else, Very Good +. Price: $55.00 7977 Pomeranz, Herman.- Medicine in the Shakespearean Plays and Dickens' Doctors. New York. Powell Publications. 1936. First Edition. 410 pp. + Index. 8vo. Blue publisher's Cloth. Two books in one: the first is a review of Elizabethan medicine and Shakespeare's views on the subject; the second a similar approach for Dickens. Very Good. Price: $75.00 8001 Dickens, Charles.- The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1872. First American Household Edition. 351 pp. Green Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Illustrations and Lettering. Podeschi D68. Double column format. With 1868 Postscript by Dickens. Although simultaneous with and imitative of the Household Edition of Dickens by Chapman & Hall, this edition was completely reset by Harper & Brothers. Linear tear in margin of title page without involving text. Very Good. Price: $110.00 10349 Dickens, Charles.- The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock. A Reprint of the First Edition, with the Illustrations and an Introduction, Biographical and Bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the Younger. London. Macmillan and Co. 1892. Illustrated. Wood engravings drawn by H. K. Browne and George Cattermole. First Edition in this collection. 654 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's ads. Small 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine and gilt cartouche on front cover with Dickens' initials in gilt. Podeschi D131, first set. A very nice edition of The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Master Humphrey's Clock" from the "Uniform Edition" of Dickens' Works. Printed by R. and R. Clark (the English issue). This set has introductions by Charles Dickens the Younger, who succeeded his father as Editor of "All the Year Round" in 1870. Browning and staining of page edges and preliminaries. Lacks rear free end paper. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $25.00 10388 Fido, Martin.- Charles Dickens. An Authentic Account of His Life & Times London. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.. N.D. [? 1973 ] Copiously illustrated. ? Second Edition, reprint. 140 pp. 4to. Green publisher's cloth, titled in black on spine with facsimile of Dickens's signature on front cover. Illustrated end papers and D.J. The story of the Inimitable, heavily illustrated in color and b/w. Near Fine in Near Fine D.J. Price: $20.00 9708 Anonymous .- [Broadside]. Pollock's Characters & Scenes in Oliver Twist, Plates. Characters, 1 Set Piece, 3 wings, and 13 Scenes. Total 23. With Book to the Above. (?Title Page). First Edition. Pages 1 p.8vo sheet. Single loose broadside sheet. First Edition. Woodblock illustrations with hand coloring. Podeschi C35. VanderPoel B109(1), (2), 110. Suzannet, E.35 (with plate of this illustration). Rather crudely done illustrations of some of the characters and scenes from Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Likely from an early edition of what is known from Podeschi as "Pollocks' Juvenile Drama. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. A Drama. With Plates Adapted Only for Pollock's Characters and Scenes." The address, at 73 Hoxton Street, in the Gimbel issue is the same as provided for Redington on other similar plates. Redington had been a predecessor of Pollock and was his father-in-law. The plates were issued separately from the text of the play, which was claimed to be the only juvenile dramatization of Dickens' works. Even in Pollock's edition, some of the plates retained the Redington attribution. No date is listed. Podeschi estimates ca.1860, while a similar production in the VanderPoel collection estimates the date to be ca. 1839. Small closed tear inbottom margin encroaching on publisher'sattribution, with no loss. Else, Very Good London. B. Pollock N.D. Price: $100.00 10270 Anonymous.- Ghosts on the Stage. In Harper's Weekly. Vol. VIII. - No. 379, p. 221. April 2, 1864. First Edition. Pages Entire Issue, 15 pp.Fo. Single issue, disbound. Illustrated cover. First Edition. Illustrated. Allan Sutcliffe, Pepper's Ghost and A Christmas Carol, The Dickensian, Vol. 101, Part 3, No. 467, pp. 225-232, Winter, 2005. In 1863, the conjuror John Henry Pepper demonstrated his Ghost Illusion in his dramatization of Dickens' Haunted Man. The illusion was originally devised by Henry Dircks, a Liverpool Civil Engineer as Dircksian Phantasmagoria and refined by Pepper with his 1862-63 production of Dickens' story. In it, the illusion of a ghost was attacked by a sword. According to Sutcliffe, the ghost illusion was used in many other dramatic productions. especially of Dickens' works, notably A Christmas Carol. During the period 1875-1900 several theatrical companies were active in productions of the ghost illusion, including Gompertz's "Spectrescope and Spectral Opera Company", Strange and Wilson's "Aetherscope and Spectral Opera Company", "The Original Pepper's Ghost and Spectral Opera Company". Attention has been called to Pepper's Ghost particularly by the 2005 exhibit on Spirits and Spiritualism by Ricky Jay at a New York Soho art gallery and his preceding talk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This issue of Harper's Weekly describes the method used to project the image of the Ghost Illusion and is illustrated. The illustration was used by Sutcliffe for his article in "The Dickensian". This issue of Harper's Weekly has many articles on the Civil War, illustrated with images of Generals, the Gettysburg Cemetery as well as other interesting material, including full-page and double page illustrations by Thomas Nast. Slight browning of leading page edge. Else, Very Good +. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1864. Price: $150.00 10311 Dickens, Charles.- Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. First American Edition. Pages 47 pp. 8vo. Pale pink printed paper wraps. Sewn. First American Edition. Podeschi, B229. Lohrli, p. 118. VanderPoel B441. The Extra Christmas Number of Household Words for 1853. Composed of nine stories, of which Dickens wrote only the first (The Schoolboy's Story") and the last ("Nobody's Story"). The other stories are by Eliza Lynn, George Sala, Adelaide A. Procter, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Dixon & W. H. Wills, Samuel Sidney and Mr. William Gaskell. All were, for the most part, regular and valued contributors to Household Words. At first, his two stories were collected by Dickens in "Reprinted Pieces." "The Schoolboy's Story" is a reminiscence of Dickens' days at Wellington House Academy and Old Cheeseman as a schoolfriend of Dickens at Chatham. In "Nobody's Story", Dickens reveals his support for social reformThis Fetridge edition is, likely, a piracy. Spine and rear cover lost. Wear at edges and corners. Corners dog-eared. Else, Very Good. Boston. Fetridge & Co. 1854. Price: $110.00 10234 Langton, Robert.- The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens. With Retrospective Notes and Elucidations from His Books and Letters. With Frontispiece in Photogravure and Eighty-Two Wood-Engravings by the Author. Later Edition. Pages 260 pp.8vo. Green publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine and front cover. T.e.g. Blind ruling on front cover. Later Edition. Illustrated. An early biographyof Charles Dickens as a boy and young adult. Thoroughly illustrated and correlated with his writings. Originally issued in a limited edition in 1891. Thin wrinkle on front cover. Else, Very Good. London. Hutchinson & Co. 1912. Price: $68.00 10149 [Sheet Music). Dickens, Charles (Words) and Russell, Henry (Composer ).- The Ivy Green. A Ballad. The Words Written by "Boz". The Music Composed and Respectfully Dedicated to Lynde M. Walter, Esq, of Boston by Henry Russell A ballad written by Henry Russell to the words of Dickens' famous poem. Podeschi errs in calling Russell an american composer. Born in Britain, he spent adecade or two in America before returning to England. He was closely associated with the Musical Bouquet in London. First Edition. Podeschi C6 (see also C7-10). VanderPoel D20 (for Fifth Edition). Lightwood, p.172. Browned and lightly foxed. Else, Very Good. New York. James L. Hewitt & Co. 1838. Price: $150.00 10157 Landon, Richard.- Please, Sir, I Want Some More. Being an Exhibition of the Works of Boz, and Containing Some Account of His Trials and Tribulations with Publishers and Illustrators, His Sojurn in the Far-Flung Colony of Canada, and Sundry Descriptions of His Books: the Whole Conducted by Richard Landon with the Assistance of Dan Calinescu and Charles Dickens, Esq. The catalogue of anexhibit of Dickens' works at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, issued to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Dickens' visit to Canada in 1842. An Interesting narrative accompanies the discussion of each work and many illustrations, mostly from the original editions. First Edition. As New. Toronto. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. 1992. Price: $50.00 10181 Select Committee of the House Of Lords.- Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Consider of the Poor Laws, and to Report Their Observations Thereupon, from Time to Time to the House: and Who Had Leave Also to Report the Evidence from Time to Time to the House. 1830-1. Part of the testimony taken by the House of Lords in 1830-31 concerning the state of implementation of the Poor Laws, of labor, farming and employment in diverse locations in the country. Horrifying reports of poverty, inadequate farming technology, all labor at low wages, child labor virtually universal with starvation wages, poor supervision and no public assistance. The hopelessness of the poor is evident throughout the responses to the inquiry. It was these hearings which so inflamed Chartles Dickens against the Poor Laws that he wrote "Oliver Twist" as a protest and published it in 1836-7. First Edition. Lacks covers. Ex libris with only a modest library stamp on the title page. 3 preliminary leaves detached. Else, Very Good. London. The House of Lords. 1831. Price: $400.00 10184 Dickens, Charles (Editor).- The World Here and There, or, Notes of Travellers. From Household Words. Edited by Charles Dickens. First Series. Originally published by Putnam (Podeschi D17), later reissued from the same typesetting of text by Bunce (Podeschi D23) in 1854. A collection of travel narratives appearing first in the earliest four volumes of Household Words. None of the articles is by Dickens, but he edited all. Among the authors are Wills, Weir, Henry Morley, John Capper, Otto von Wenckstern, Sidney Blanchard, Thomasina Ross, St. John, Dr. von Corning, Soutar and Keys. First American Edition. Podeschi D17, D23. Lohrli, Household Words. Not in Edgar and Vail. Front cover loose, faded and water stained. Rear cover detached, faded. Foxing and staining of preliminaries and first 3 leaves. Chips from ends of spine with 1/2" missing at head and 3/4" lacking at tail. Else, Good. New York. G. P. Putnam 1852. Price: $80.00 9977 {Broadside].- Readings. S[pencer] R[andolph] Bonnell, of Amherst College, Will Read, by Invitation, on Tuesday Even'g, Nov. 30, in Union Hall, Plainfield, Conn. Norwich, CT. Press of Campbell & Co. N.D. [ca. 1870] 1 p. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Loose sheet, unmounted First Edition. A 19th century public reading by S. R. Bonnell of Amherst College. The program includes "How Pickwick 'Popped the Question'," "The Trial of Pickwick," and "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. The date is suggested by the period in which the printer was active. A variety of attractive type faces are used. At 20¢ for admission, the program was a distinct bargain. Slight browning of top edge. Old vertical fold. Else, Very Good +. Norwich, CT. Press of Campbell & Co. N.D. [ca. 1870] Price: $110.00 10058 Coolidge, Archibald C., Jr.- Charles Dickens as a Serial Novelist. Ames, IA. Iowa State University Press. 1967. 256 pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth with gilttitling on spine. D.J. with facsimile of Dickens' signature. First Edition. Coolidge views the novel as a labyrinth of familiar materials, ultimately knowable. The author's ability to organize these materials, metaphors, psychological insights and descriptions, time, etc., is important in the success of the novel. In Dickens' case, the serial form, bears strongly on the success of his novels. The author contends that the serial form of publication facilitated the organization by Dickens of his plot and novelistic material, ultimately to further the clarity and success of his works. Fine. Ames, IA. Iowa State University Press. 1967. Price: $32.00 8132 Dickens, Charles.- A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick. Extracted from "The Pickwick Papers." Copy No. 250 of 750 Copies Printed. Prologue and Epilogue by John F. Banker, Esq. Nevada City, CA. Harold Berliner. 1974. 69 pp. Designed and illustrated by Wolfgang Lederer. 8vo. Yellow Illustrated Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Decorations. First Edition, as Such, limited to 750 Copies. A charming, beautifully executed extract from "The Pickwick Papers" of the humorous episode of Mrs. Bardell's breach of promise suit against Mr. Pickwick Very Good. Bookplate of Richard E. Nuss on Front Free Fly Leaf. Price: $138.00 9107 Dickens, Charles (Editor).- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz" With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. With Notes and Additions, Revised by Charles Whitehead. London. G. Routledge & Co. 1853. 256 pp. Small 8vo. Red publisher's cloth,embossed with lettering and decorations in the blind and gilt titling. yellow end papers. T.e.g. A New Edition. (A Reissue of Richard Bentley's Second Edition, 1846, the First Edition with notes by Whitehead). Plates by Cruikshank. Frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi, after Raven. (? Engraved by Greatbatch) Cohn 237, 238. Grimaldi, (1779-1837) was England's greatest clown. His memoirs were originally published and edited by Charles Dickens, in two volumes, in 1838. Eckel's comments on the limited participation of Dickens in writing this work are taken by many to be authoritative. Grimaldi initially sketched it out and gave it to Wilks, who worked it up before selling it to Bentley. The latter hired Dickens to polish it. Besides doing some editing, Dickens wrote the introductory and, possibly, the final chapter. The "Memoirs" was first published in 1838 with Cruikshank illustrations. This revised edition has extensive notes by Charles Whitehead and retains the original Cruikshank illustrations. Wear at ends of spine and at corners. Pages soiled. Signature M shaken. Plates very good. Else Good+. Price: $125.00 9085 Dickens, Charles, Jr.- The Blue Chamber, Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens [,Jr.], for Christmas, 1873. London. Chapman & Hall. 1873. 48 pp.8vo. Blue Paper Wraps, as Issued. First Edition. Ads on all covers including margins of front cover. Dickens died in 1870. The editorship of All the Year Round passed to his son, Charles Dickens, Jr. for its remaining years. The concept of the Extra Christmas Number was continued by Charlie, who, together with Evans, had earlier formed the publishing house of Charles Dickens and Evans, the new publisher of All the Year Round. Wear at ends of spine. Mild foxing. Soiling of covers. Else,Very Good. Price: $100.00 9076 [Dickens, Charles]. Shattuck, Harriette R.- Our Mutual Friend. A Comedy in Four Acts. Dramatized from Charles Dickens By Harriette R. Shattuck. Boston. Lee & Shepard. 1879. 42 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's catalogue. 12mo. Yellow-orange printed and illustrated paper wraps with publisher's ads on all pages. Reprint of First Edition. The Globe Drama. All the World's a Stage. Baker's Plays. Bolton, p. 433 (OMF, #17) Originally copyright in 1876 by George M. Baker and the author, Harriette R. Shattuck, this theatrical version of "Our Mutual Friend" is here reissued by Lee & Shepard. Bolton reports on the decline in the rush into dramatic productions of Dickens' later novels compared with his early ones. Some of this was due to copyright protection takenby Dickens himself and some due to Dickens more novelistic devices (consequently, less theatrical) in his later writings. By 1900, only about 15 plays had been written based on "Our Mutual Friend." This version by Harriette Shattuck was thought to be thebest version written in the 19th century, although it may never have been produced. Closed tear (2") on margin of rear cover. slight wear at corner's. Owner's signature on front cover in pencil. Else, Very Good. Price: $95.00 9058 Eaton, Seymour (Librarian).- The Booklovers Reading Club Hand-Book to Accompany the Reading Course Entitled, "Charles Dickens: His Life ands Work. Course VII: Booklovers Reading Club. Books Selected for This Reading Course by Mr. George W. Cable and Mr Irving Bacheller. Talks and Lectures by Andrew Lang and Amelia Barr and James L. Hughes. Editorial Notes by Professor T. M. Parrott. Philadelphia. The Booklovers Library. 1901. 116 pp. + 5 pp. course catalogue for Reading Club. 8vo. Brown paper wraps lettered on front cover in red and brown. Large red embossed seal of the Club applied to front cover. Illustrated with portraits of Dickens and drawings by Kitton and others. First Edition. Podeschi H50. The syllabus for what appears to be a self directed reading course on Charles Dickens, his life and work. Primary reading includes Forster's biography and Dickens' letters. Suggested also are Marzials' biography, Gissing's criticism, Mamie Dickens' memoir of her father and the autobiographical "David Copperfield." Supplemental lectures by Lang on Dickens, Barr on his moral services and Hughes on Dickens and educational reform. Dickens' autobiographical fragment is reprinted. A supplementary reading list and quotations from criticism of Dickens are included. Wear with minimal loss at ends of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 9354 Eckel, John C.- The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens. Their Points and Values. A Bibliography. Revised and Enlarged. With Illustrations and Facsimiles. Mansfield, CT. Maurizio Martino Publisher. N.D. [1993]. 272 pp .8vo. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine. Facsimile of Second Edition of 1932. Illustrated. Besterman, p. 212. A facsimile of the Second Edition of Eckel's illustrious bibliography, originally published by Maurice Inman and Maggs Bros. (New York & London). This reprint was issued in a limited edition of 325 copies. The indispensible bibliography of Dickens' first editions. As New. Price: $65.00 9043 Dickens, Charles.- My Early Times. London. The Folio Society. 1988. 252 pp.8vo. Red publisher's cloth spine and decorated paper covered boards. T.e. stained red. Gilt lettering on spine. Red paper covered slip case. Added paper label, loosely applied to slip case: "With the Editor's compliments. Your 1989 presentation volume." First Edition. Profusely illustrated. Dickens wrote many anecdotes of his childhood and his youth, in letters, incorporations into his novels, his "minor " works and his journalism and even in an unpublished attempt at autobiography. Peter Rowland has woven these into a reconstruction of Dickens' early years and written an accompanying Introduction. As New. Price: $45.00 9078 Dickens, Charles.- The Novels of Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). Two Volumes London. The Caxton Publishing Co. [ca. 1910]. 322, 352 pp. 8vo. Deep green decorated publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Colored frontispiece in each volume.The London Edition. Podeschi, D173. Eight pages of introductory "Editorial Notes," an illustrated topography of the novel. From the 30 volume set of "The London Edition." Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., not by Hazell, Watson and Viney, as indicated in Podeschi, D173. Slight wear at edges of spine and at corners. Slight browning of end papers. Else, Very Good. Price: $95.00 9288 Dickens, Charles.- The Old Curiosity Shop, and Other Tales; Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens (Boz). With over One Hundred Illustrations by George Cattermole, Hablot Browne, and J. Sibson. Frontispiece engraving and engraved title page dated 1841. Two printed cancel title pages (one each for "The Old Curiosity Shop" and for "Master Humphrey's Clock") dated 1845. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. 1845. 362 pp. 6to. Brown embossed publisher's cloth with gilt titling and illustration on spine. Double column format. Reissue of First American Edition in book form. Full page plates engraved by J. Yeager as well as numerous wood cuts inserted into text. Edgar & Vail, p. 20. Podeschi A53. Wilkins, pp. 19–20 Master Humphrey's Clock was published in America, first by Lea and Blanchard beginning in 1840 in parts with text illustrations, but no plates. The Old Curiosity Shop, the first part of the reconceived Master Humphrey's Clock, was published in book form in 1841 with plates and 51 woodcuts in text. This volume is a reimpression of the First American Edition with the original title page as well as the cancel titles, illustrations and engraved plates. The book ends with the introduction to Barnaby Rudge. Wear at ends and edges of spine and covers. Moderate foxing. Shaken. Slightly cocked. Owner's signatures on front pastedown and flyleaf. Calling card of Richard Ward Day, long-time (1960's and 1970's) Headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy, tucked in. Else, Good. Price: $225.00 9181 Dickens, Charles.- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. In Two Volumes. Collection of British Authors, Vols. 2 and 3. Leipzig. Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1842. 464, 456 pp..Small 8vo. Red publisher's cloth. Black label with gilt titling on spine. Ribbon markers in each volume. T.e.g. Edges speckled. Copyright Edition ("First Continental Edition"). A very nice copy of the "first Continental edition" of "The Pickwick Papers" published by Tauchnitz. They conform to Todd's classification with Vol. I as issue Cd and Volume II as issue Bb. On verso of Half-Title is a listing of Dickens works published by Tauchnitz. Bookplate of Robert Whitehead on front pastedown of each volume. Mild fading of spine and mild foxing. Else, Near Fine. Todd & Bowden 2,3. Price: $125.00 9133 Dickens, Charles.- Sikes and Nancy. A Facsimile of a Privately Printed Annotated Copy, Now in the Dickens House, Presented by Dickens to Adeline Billington. London. The Dickens House. 1982. 47 pp.Small 8vo. Green printed paper wraps. First Edition. Podeschi B56 (for Stonehouse/Sotheran issue of another copy). According to Philip Collins, "Sikes and Nancy" was one of the most famous of Dickens' public readings, was the last to enter his repertoire, in his final season of readings in 1868–9, and, at great physical and mental cost to him, provided a very dramatic flourish to his performances. The author had over time selected 22 episodes from his writings for these public readings, four of them never performed. Dickens had printed his cut up and rewritten version privately to use as text for his readings. A spare copy was given to his actress-friend Adeline Billington, who annotated her copy by reproducing Dickens' underlines, amendations and marginal stage directions from his working copy, which regrettably has been lost. Her copy was later owned by Sir Henry Irving and went into the de Suzannet collection, which was donated to the Dickens House. As New. Price: $20.00 9111 Dickens, Charles.- The Story of Richard Doubledick. In "Rexall Magazine," Vol.5, December, 1916. The Christmas Number for 1916. Boston. Rexall Drug Company. 1916. Pp. 3–5. 4to. Monthly Issue in illustrated paper wraps. First Edition, in this format. Illustrated by A. Hutchins. Vanderpoel B572. Stone, Uncollected Writings from "Household Words," pp.524, 547. Podeschi, B232–5, D33, 41, 101. One of Charles Dickens' best known stories, reprinted in this advertising medium for the Rexall Drug Co. Likely a piracy. The Story Is true to Dickens' reputation for the sentimental. It comes originally from "The Christmas Stories, Seven Poor Travellers," the Extra Christmas Number of "Household Words" for 1854. "Seven Poor Travelllers" was not written in entirety by Dickens. "The Story of Richard Doubledick", which he did write, was later extracted by Dickens and inserted into his Collected Works in "Christmas Stories." According to Stone, these extracts were first published in America in the Diamond Edition by Ticknor & Fields in 1867. The Diamond Edition, according to Podeschi, Was the First American Edition of Dickens truly authorized by him, and brought together short stories "not yet....collected in England."The earlier date (1863) on a piracy in the"Kennebec Journal" of "Richard Doubledick" belies Stone's interpretation and may make the latter the First American and First Separate Edition of the story. The Rexall Magazine contains many ads for patent medicines, etc. Few small marginal closed tears. Horizontal fold in middle. Else, Very Good. Price: $55.00 9077 Dickens, Charles.- The Uncommercial Traveler. London. Chapman and Hall. N.D. [ca. 1902–05]. 213 pp. 12mo. (4 3/4" x 7 3/8") Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling. Facsimile of Dickens' signature in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece by Frederick Barnard. Podeschi, D149 (?). An edition of Dickens journalism. From the typeface and book design, estimated date of first decade of 20th century. Likely the typesetting derives from "The Biographical Edition," since it was printed then by William Clowes and Sons, London and Beccles. Spine and covers soiled. Faint vertical crease in spine. Page edges browning. Else, Very Good. Price: $35.00 9083 Dickens, Charles and Collins, Willkie.- No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens, for Christmas, 1867. London. Chapman & Hall. 1867. 48 pp. 8vo. Blue Paper Wraps, as Issued. First Edition. VanderPoel B458, B446. Podeschi (Gimbel), E20. Oppenlander, p.196. Ads on all covers except front. Publisher's Ads for "The Moonstone" in ATYR and the "Charles Dickens" Edition of Mr. Dickens's Works on Front Cover. Dickens wrote "The Overture," parts of Acts I & IV, and all of Act III. Wear at ends of spine with tiny chips at cornersand leading edges. Else,Very Good. Price: $165.00 9247 Dickens, Charles and Others.- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy. The Extra Christmas Number of "All the Year Round." Conducted by Charles Dickens. Containing the Amount of Two Ordinary Numbers. Christmas 1864. London. Chapman and Hall. 1864 [January, 1865]. 48 pp.+ ads.8vo. Blue paper wraps. Extra set of blue covers with ads on all 4 sides included. First Edition. Oppenlander, p.150. VanderPoel B452. Patten, D. & Publ., p. 301 As in some other Extra Christmas Numbers for "All the Year Round," Dickens wrote only parts of the whole. He laid a heavy hand to the editing of contributions by others, however, making the stories seamless to most readers. For this story in Volume XII of ATYR, Dickens wrote Parts I and VII, Charles Allston Collins, Dickens son-in-law, wrote Part II. The others were by Rosa Mulholland (Part III), Henry T.Spicer (Part IV), Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (Part V), and Hesba Stretton (Part VI). A sip is tipped in at front announcing Volume the First of"Our Mutual Friend" to be published on January 20, [1865]. Mrs Lirriper had appeared at Christmas, 1863 in "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," which was a very popular Christmas number because of its comic elements. Each of "Mrs. Lirriper" issues sold 200,000 copies or more, occasioning enthusiastic letters from Dickens to Wilkie Collins about her and his expectations for her. This was only the second Extra Christmas Number to appear in blue wrappers. Covers detached and front cover separated at hinge. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 9206 Dickens, Charles.- The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London. Chapman and Hall. 1866. 496 pp.8vo. Dark green publisher's cloth. Covers embossed in the blind with borders, device and "The Works of Charles Dickens. Cheap Editions." Spine decorated and titled in gilt. T.e.g. The Cheap Edition, Later issue. Frontispiece by Frank Stone NCBEL, III, 783. Schlicke, Oxford Comp., p. 204. Double column format.The Cheap Edition was the first collected English edition of Dickens' works. It was issued in 17 volumes in three series, from 1847 to 1867 with frequent reprintings. Martin Chuzzlewit was originally issued in 1850, in the first series of this edition.This copy has the later binding. Dickens edited the text, wrote new prefaces and solicited new frontispieces for this edition. Martin Chuzzlewit, a tale of selfishness, is Dickens' second book dealing with America. It is said by some to be a partial attempt to apologize for "American Notes," but may only have thrown fuel onto the fire. Mild wear at ends of spine and at corners. Bookbinder's label laid down onto rear pastedown. Front hinge starting internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $100.00 9300 Dickens, Charles.- The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. with Illustrations by Phiz. London. Chapman and Hall. 1844. 624 pp.8vo. Contemporary half polished brown calf with marbled boards, end papers and all edges. Raised bands and elaborate gilt decorations on spine and black leather label for title. Has both engraved vignette title page and cancel title, the latter dated 1844. Errata slip present. First Edition. Engraved frontispiece, title page and plates by H. K. Browne. Eckel, pp.71–3. Smith I, pp.65–7. Podeschi A72 Dickens' second "American" book, presumably more favorable to America.This copy has all the first issue points called for by Smith, including disordered plates. Wear at edges of spine and boards. Marbled paper slightly abraded on boards. Foxing and browning of plates, as usual. Signature QQ (pp. 593–608) bound in error after signature RR (pp. 609–622), but all present. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a Very Good tight and clean copy of a book that often is found in poor condition. Price: $525.00 9299 Dickens, Charles.- Little Dorrit. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1857. 625 pp.8vo. Contemporary half polished brown calf with marbled boards, end papers and all edges. Raised bands and elaborate gilt decorations on spine and black leather label for title. Has both engraved vignetted title page and cancel title, both dated 1857. First Edition, bound from the parts. Engraved frontispiece, title page and plates by H. K.Browne. Eckel, pp.82–3. Smith I, pp. 91–3. Podesci A141 A First Edition, bound from the parts, of Dickens' novel of the Marshalsea. This was his last novel to be published by Bradbury and Evans. Dickens separated from his wife shortly after completing Little Dorrit and perceived discourtesy on the part of his publisher. On the same pretext he ended his association with Household Words. The character of Flora Finching was patterned after Maria Beadnell, Dickens' youthful enemorata, who jilted him coldly. This copy has all the first issue points called for by Smith. Wear at edges of spine and boards. Marbled paper slightly abraded on boards. Foxing and browning of edges of plates, as usual. . Overall a Very Good tight and clean copy of a book that often is found in poor condition. Price: $475.00 9032 Dickens, Charles.- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. New York. Stein and Day. 1968. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 311 pp.8vo. Publisher's blue cloth spine and blue paper covered boards. Illustrated and printed D.J. First American Edition. Findlater was the author of"Grimaldi: King of the Clowns" (1955) and here, utilizing his tools of modern scholarship, re-edits and annotates Charles Dickens' edition of Grimaldi's autobiography , first published in 1838. This is likely to be the definitive edition of Grimaldi's memoirs. Edges of D.J. lightly chipped, but all intact. Book, Very Good+. Price: $42.00 9177 Dickens, Charles.- The Mudfog Papers, etc. Now First Collected. London. Richard Bentley and Son. 1880. 198 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's ads.Small 8mo. Red publisher's cloth with black lettering and decoration on front cover. Gilt titling on spine. Blue coated end papers. First Edition. One illustration ("The Tyrant Sowster") by George Cruikshank, p. 121. Podeschi D86. NCBEL III, 820. Eckel, p. 173–5. The papers comprising this book were written by Dickens for the early numbers of "Bentley's Miscellany" (1837–8), and "The Library of Fiction." The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" also appeared in the American edition of "Sketches by Boz, Second Series," Carey, Lea & Blanchard, in 1837. "The Mudgfog Papers is a satire on the many learned societies then flourishing. Dickens continued repeatedly to satirize these groups, including the newly formed British Association for the Advancement of Science, throughout his career. Charming bookplate of Vivian L. Henderson on front pastedown. This book is usually found in very poor state; while the condition here is only Good, it is rare to find an unsophisticated copy so well preserved. Shaken. Cover soiled. Wear at spine ends. Local rust from stapled binding at folds of signatures. Hinges cracking internally. Else, Good. Price: $475.00 9084 Dickens, Charles.- Mugby Junction, the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens, for Christmas, 1866. London. Chapman & Hall. 1866. 48 pp.8vo. Blue Paper Wraps, as Issued. First Edition. VanderPoel B457, B446. Podeschi (Gimbel), E19. Oppenlander, pp.180–1. Ads on all covers except front. Dickens wrote the first four parts, including the much reprinted "The Signalman." The final four parts are by Charles Collins and others. Wear at ends of spine with tiny chips at leading edges. Mild foxing. Soiling of covers. Else,Very Good. Price: $150.00 9287 Dickens, Charles.- Barnaby Rudge; by Charles Dickens (Boz). With Numerous Illustrations by Cattermole, Browne, and Sibson. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. 1846. Frontispiece engraving of Barnaby Rudge and engraved title page dated 1842. Printed cancel title page dated 1846. 323 pp.6to. Brown embossed publisher's cloth with gilt titling and illustration on spine. Double column format. Reissue of First American Edition in book form. Full page plates engraved by J. Yeager as well as numerous wood cuts inserted into text. Edgar & Vail, p. 20. Podeschi A63. Wilkins, pp. 19–20 Barnaby Rudge was published in America, first by Lea and Blanchard in 1841 in 19 monthly parts with text illustrations, but no plates. It was published in book form in 1842 with plates and 51 woodcuts in text. This is a reimpression of the First American Edition with the original title page as well as the cancel title. Wear at ends and edges of spine and covers with small losses at foot of spine. Moderate foxing. Owner'ssignatures on front pastedown and free flyleaf. Else Good+. Price: $250.00 9246 Dickens, Charles.- The Battle of Life. A Love Story. New York. Wiley & Putnam. 1847. 87 pp.12mo. Brown printed paper wraps. Stab sewn. First American Edition. No. LXXXVI of Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. Edgar & Vail, pp. 23–4. Not in Wilkins, VanderPoel or Podeschi. Dickens' fourth Christmas Book in its first American edition. Wiley & Putnam received the first proofs of "The Battle of Life" and lent a copy to the periodical "The Golden Rule," where it received its first periodical publication. Both preceded the Harper's edition. Thus, a very scarce copy of the true American First Edition of this Christmas book by Dickens, missing from the major Dickens collections in America. Lacks rear cover. Spine half gone. Chips from edges of front cover. Covers soiled. Except for covers, Very Good. Price: $300.00 9117 Dickens, Charles.- Bleak House. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1853. 624 pp.8vo. Contemporary half green calf with marble covered boards and end papers. Marbled page ends. Spine elaborately decorated in gilt. First Edition. Smith, I, 81–84. A true first edition of Bleak House, with all the points called for by Smith and with all ten of the dark plates by Phiz. Leather worn at edges. Boards scuffed. Mild foxing. Plates quite clear except for darkening in margins. A Very Good copy of, perhaps, Dickens' best work. Price: $645.00 9285 Dickens, Charles.- A Child's History of England. Two Volumes. Volume I. England from Ancient Times, to the Reign of Henry the Fifth. Volume II. England from the Reign of Henry the Sixth to the Revolutionof 1688. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1854. 288, 307 pp.Small 8vo. Red publisher'scloth, embossed. Gilt titling and decorations on spine. Yellow end papers. Volume I, Later printing of First American Edition, simultaneous with First American Edition of Volume II; both dated 1854. Edgar & Vail, p. 27. Eckel, p. 128. Podeschi A129. Dickens' history of England, written for his children. He ruminated over this book for ten yearsbefore putting it to paper. The English book edition was published in three volumes, dated 1852,1853 and 1854. It had a frontispiece in each volume by Topham. The First American Edition was unillustrated. This is the only book by Dickens that he dictated to a second person, the majority of the manuscript being in the hand of his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. Wear at ends of spines. Covers soiled and wrinkled. Minimal foxing. End papers soiled in Volume II. Else, Good +. Price: $375.00 9344 Dickens, Charles.- Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. With Illustrations Engraved on Wood by J. W. Orr. Two Volumes. Illustrated by J. W.Orr from his acknowledgedly great engravings on wood after Hablot Browne. Includes, as frontispiece, S. Wallin's drawing after the Lawrence portrait of a young Charles Dickens. First American Edition, bound from the parts. New York. John Wiley (of the Late Firm of "Wiley and Putnam"). 1848. 939 pp. in two volumes.12mo. First American Edition, bound from the parts. Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. Wilkins, p. 25. Edgar & Vail, p. 24. Grolier #156. Podeschi A104. The engraved title gives the date of 1848. The printed cancel title in Volume I lists Wiley and Putnam as the publisher and is dated 1846 (as on the title page for the parts in the earliest edition, e.g. that cited in Grolier #156). The cancel title in Volume II lists the shortened title, "Dombey and Son", with illustrations by H. K. Browne, published by John Wiley (of Late Firm of "Wiley and Putnam") and is dated 1848. Stab holes are present, confirming that these volumes were bound from the parts of the First American Edition. The pages are numbered continuously through the two volumes, though the List of Plates for Volume II (the list is bound with Volume I on the verso of the List of Plates for Volume I) gives a pagination that intends Volume II to begin again on Page 1. Accordingly, the binder inserted the illustrations for Volume II into Volume I on those pages intended for Volume II. As a result all Plates but one are in Volume I. Although a slightly defective copy, it is a truly scarce item: an American First of "Dombey," bound from the very rare parts. Foxed. Some browning of pages. Covers worn and scuffed. Partial separation at head of front hinge, with separation of front hinge internally in Volume I. Instructions to binder in pencil on cancel titles. Lacks the Plate entitled "Paul Goes Home for the Holidays", on p. 224 of Volume I. Overall, Good. Price: $450.00 9205 Dickens, Charles.- Barnaby Rudge. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. 380 pp.8vo. Dark green publisher's cloth. Covers embossed in the blind with borders, device and "The Works of Charles Dickens. Cheap Editions." Spine decorated and titled in gilt. T.e.g. The Cheap Edition, Later issue. Frontispiece NCBEL, III, 783. Schlicke, Oxford Comp., p. 204. Double column format.The Cheap Edition was the first collected English edition of Dickens' works. It was issued in 17 volumes in three series, from 1847 to 1867 with frequent reprintings. Barnaby Rudge was originally issued in 1849, in the first series of this edition.This copy has the later binding. Dickens edited the text, wrote new prefaces and solicited new frontispieces for this edition. Barnaby Rudge had a long gestation at Dickens' pen. The history of its publication is closely bound to Dickens' difficult relationships with his publishers. Mild wear at ends of spine and at corners. Mild foxing of end papers. Bookseller's label embossed on front free end paper. Gilt quite bright. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 9331 Clendening, Logan.- A Handbook to Pickwick Papers. With 25 Illustrations and 2 Maps. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1936. 156 pp. 8vo. Red linen spine and illustrated grey paper covered boards. Illustrated D.J. First Edition. One of only 2000 copies. Dr. Clendening's history of The Pickwick Papers with his memoir of a trip to visit the places and buildings making up so much of the charm of the Pickwick Papers. The book details the controversy between Dickens and his first illustrator, Robert Seymour (and after Seymour's suicide, the Seymour family), on the origin of Pickwick Papers. Lovely bookplates on front pastedown. Except for mild soiling and darkening of spine of D.J., Near Fine. Price: $125.00 9375 Dexter, Walter.- Mr. Pickwick's Pilgrimages. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1927. 224 pp.8vo. Blure publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine. T.e. stained blue.. Edges untrimmed. First American Edition. illustrated from the original drawings by "Phiz", and photographs by the author. One of Dexter's great topographic studies, here of "Pickwick," with asides on Dickens' life. Dexter has photographed many of the original places, renamed in the novel or relevant to Dickens' history. An uncommon volume of Dickesiana. Minimal wear to ends of spine and to covers. Else, Very Good +. Price: $45.00 9204 Dickens, Charles.- The Adventures of Oliver Twist. London. Chapman and Hall. 1861. 291 pp.8vo. Light green vertically ribbed publisher's cloth with covers embossed in the blind and gilt decoration and titling on spine. T.e.g. The Cheap Edition. Later issue of first design. NCBEL, III, 783. Schlicke, Oxford Comp., p. 204. Double column format.The Cheap Edition was the first collected English edition of Dickens' works. It was issued in 17 volumes in three series, from 1847 to 1867 with frequent reprintings. Oliver Twist, Dickens' second novel, published originally in Bentley's "Miscellany," was issued in this edition in1850. This copy has the binding of the original issue. Later the binding was of darker green with "Cheap Edition" embossed on the covers. Dickens edited the text, wrote new prefaces and solicited new frontispieces. The frontispiece here is by Cruikshank, the original illustrator of "Oliver Twist." Wear at ends of spine. Soiling of covers. Slightly cocked. Else, Very Good. Price: $100.00 9082 Dickens, Charles.- The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. To Be Completed in Ten Numbers. And A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. Facsimiles. Tokyo. Yushodo Booksellers Ltd. 1977. For "Oliver Twist," ten individual issues covered in blue illustrated paper wraps, with ads on both front and rear covers and issues of the Oliver Twist Advertiser, all conforming to Hatton and Cleaver. "A Christmas Carol" covered in red paper covered boards, embossed in the blind and in gilt, with green endpapers, title page printed in red and blue. a.e.g., illustrations colored. "A Christmas Carol" is laid in a brown cloth covered tray, which together with the ten unbound parts of "Oliver Twist" is laid in a red cloth covered folder lined in brown cloth, this folder in turn inserted in a red cloth covered box with red calf spine labeled in gilt. The entire package is held in the original stapled cardboard box. Facsimile Edition. Hatton and Cleaver, 213–224. Magnificent facsimiles of the original 1846 parts of "Oliver Twist" and the first edition of "A Christmas Carol." As New. Price: $850.00 9109 Churchill, R. C. (Compiler and Editor).- A Bibliography of Dickensian Criticism. 1836–1975 London. The Macmillan Press Ltd. 1975. 314 pp .8vo. Red publisher's cloth. First Edition. A bibliography of Dickens criticism, the longest to date, arranged roughly in chronological sequence. As New. Price: $50.00 9227 Clarke, Joseph Clayton (pseudonym: Kyd).- Character Sketches from Charles Dickens Pourtrayed by Kyd. London. Raphael Tuck & Sons. ND [1889–1891]. 8" x 10" Illustrated tan portfolio in paper covered boards. Disbound. First Edition. Podeschi H1037. A portfolio of illustrations of Dickens' characters by Kyd, disbound. The front cover portrays a contemplative Dickens in an armchair with an assemblage of his characters arched about him. The rear cover shows Sairy Gamp. Present are four of the illustrations mounted in two-color mats: Mr.Micawber from "David Copperfield," Mr. Stiggins from "Pickwick Papers," Sergt. Buzfuz and the Fat Boy, both from "Pickwick Papers." The illustrations are beautifully and subtly colored. Missing are twenty other illustrations: 1)Sam Weller from Pickwick Papers 2)Capt. Cuttle from Dombey and Son 3) Dick Swiveller from "Old Curiosity Shop," 4)Quilp from "Old Curiosity Shop," 5) The Marchioness from "Old Curiosity Shop," 6) Sampson Brass from "Old Curiosity Shop," 7) Mr. Peggotty from "David Copperfield," 8) Sairy Gamp from "Martin Chuzzlewit 9) Mr. Pickwick from "Pickwick Papers," 10) Mrs. Bardell from "Pickwick Papers," 11) Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist 12) Mr. Weller Senior from "Pickwick Papers,"13) Mr. Pecksniff from "Martin Chuzzlewit," 14) Toots from "Dombey and Son," 15) Uriah Heep from "David Copperfield," 16) Mr. Bumble from "Oliver Twist," 17) Mr. Jingle from "Pickwick Papers," 18) Mr. Whackford Squeers from "Nicholas Nickleby," 19) The Artful Dodger from "Oliver Twist," 20) Trotty Veck from "The Chimes." The portfolio is bumped at the lower corners. Else, Very Good. The four illustrations are Very Good+ with singlespot of foxing on only the Fat Boy illustration. All four are in Very Good, fresh mats. Price: $100.00 9115 Charles, Edwin.- Some Dickens Women. With a Foreword by G. K. Chesterton. London. T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1926. 343 pp.8vo. Green publisher's cloth (?trial binding). First Edition. Proof copy, signed by author. Podeschi D199 (for American edition). Signed on half-title by author with inscription: "To Reuben H. Webb / with most sincere regards / Edwin Charles / 6/4/26." Also inscribed on same page: "To my friend / M. W. (?) Page. / May 27, 36 / S.(?) G. Webb." Edwin Charles, a citizen of Rochester, had written "Keys to the Drood Mystery" about 1909 with his own views of the several mysteries of Dickens' unfinished novel. Here are his charming views of some Dickens women characters, presented in Dickens' own words with commentary and text by Charles. A good antidote to some of the hyper-modern discussions of Dickens and women in being both textual and contextual. Lacks front free fly leaf. Many pages uncut and untrimmed. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Binding cloth wrinkled (in application?) Price: $100.00 9098 Dexter, Walter.- The Love Romance of Charles Dickens. Told in His Letters to Maria Beadnell (Mrs. Winter). With Introduction and Notes by Walter Dexter. London. The Argonaut Press. 1936. 125 pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. T.e.g. First Edition. Illustrated. The book was edited asnd published on behalf of the Dickens Fellowship with permission of Dickens' surviving son, Sir Henry Dickens. The letters are in the Huntington Library. Maria Beadnell, Dickens' first love, was the prototype for Dora od "David Copperfield" and other heroines of his novels. Dickens, who had been rejected by maria's parents because of his poor prospects in life, found her repulsive when he met Maria again late in his life. Minimal wear at ends of spine and minimal foxing at ends of text block. Else, Very Good+. Price: $55.00 9248 Charles Dickens.- The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism. Volume I. Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers. Edited by Michael Slater. Columbus, OH. Ohio State University Press. 1994. 580 pp. 8vo. Black publisher's cloth with gilt titling. First Edition. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. The first volume of what promises to be the definitive collection of Dickens' journalism, magnificently edited by Michael Slater. As New. Price: $42.00 9329 Carr, Sister Mary Callista.- Catalogue of the Dickens Collection at the University of Texas. Austin, TX. Humanities research Center, The University of Texas. 1961. 195 pp .8vo. Grey linen spine and illustrated ivory paper covered boards. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Copy # 172. Illustrated with end papers by F. Hopkinson Smith and with Plates. Illustration of caricature of Dickens by André Gide on D.J. and on front cover.. Two clippings tucked in. A very useful catalogue of Dickens material at Texas, prior to the acquisition of the VanderPoel collection. Mild yellowing of D.J. Brief penciled annotation on rear end paper. Else, Very Good to Near Fine. Price: $100.00 9339 Brannan, Robert Louis (Editor).- Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens. His Production of "The Frozen Deep." Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press. 1966. 173 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine. Green end papers. First Edition. Illustrated. "The Frozen Deep," a play based upon the lost polar expedition of Sir John Franklin, was billed as written by Wilkie Collins (the idea having originated with Charles Dickens). It was edited by Dickens, who helped to write the script and starred in the first production of the play in 1857. His perforance, an exhausting experience, was widely admired, includi8ng by Queen Victoria.This activity helped distract Dickens from his marital difficulties, so pressing at the time. Brannan has produced this version of the script of the 1857 production from the manuscript ofthe prompt-book. There is a long introduction by Brannan providing much background material on the performance, staging andboth social and literary infuence of the play. At rear there is a very useful bibliography. Near Fine. Price: $25.00 9195 Anonymous.- Illustration of Charles Dickens Addressing the Dulwich College Charity Meeting at the Adelphi Theatre together with the Text of His Address, from The Illustrated London News, March 22, 1856, pp. 301–302.2 London. Engraving signed WA or AW, engraved by Landell. The Illustrated London News. 1856. 2 pp. Paper: 16" x 11"; Print: 7" x 10". Unbound. First Edition. Illustrated with a half-page woodcut. Charles Dickens was chosen to address the foundation established at Dulwich College by Edward Alleyn, a colleague of Shakespeare in the 17th century. Dickens reviews Alleyn's life and good works, providing justification for the use of this charity in the support of actors and their families who have fallen on hard times. This leaf from an 1856 newsapaper illustrates the meeting which had taken place just a few days before and reports the full text of Dickens' address. Minor edge wear and marginal yellowing. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 9006 Anonymous [Harriet Martineau] and Dickens, Charles [attrib.].- Shawls, from Household Words, Reprinted in Graham's American Monthly Magazine, November, 1852. Vol. XLI. No. 5. pp. 488–91. Also, London Coffee Houses (Attributed to Charles Dickens) in Graham's American Monthly Magazine, Same Issue, p. 495. Philadelphia. G. R. Graham. 1852. pp. 453–560. Copious illustrations. 8vo. Printed and decorated paper wraps. Lohrli, p. 98 First Edition. A single monthly issue of Graham's Magazine for November, 1852. Among the many articles, cartoons, illustrations. music and poems are an article by Harriet Martineau reprinted from Household Words, V,No. 127, pp. 552–56, August 28, 1852. The article is unattributed. Also, in this issue is an article attributed to Charles Dickens without source attribution, on London Coffee Houses. This article is not listed in Lohrli's index to Household Words, but the same issue of HW which contains Harriet Martineau's article includes on pp. 562–566 an article on coffee houses by George A. Sala. It is posible that the editor of Graham's misattributed a borrowing from Household Words since the authors were not listed. Possibly both are piracies, not an unusual event for Dickens' Household Words, or for any of his works, for that matter. Chips from spine and edges of covers. Slight browning of cover edges and inner pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $55.00 9474 Hewett, Edward, and Axton, W.F.- Convivial Dickens. The Drinks of Dickens and His Times. Athens, OH. Ohio University Press. 1983. 191 pp. Small 4to. Red publisher's cloth. Illustrated D.J. Illustrated end papers. First Edition. An account of drinks and drinking habits in Victorian times, with an emphasis on Charles Dickens. The authors issue a cordial invitation to "attend a veritable feast of reason celebrating the pleasures of the flowing bowl." Copiously illustrated from Dickens' works and other Victorian sources. The recipes were culled from cook books, bartender manuals and other contemporary sources. Of interest is a listing of the ingredients of Dickens' wine cellar. Near Fine. Price: $29.00 9477 Forster, John.- The Life of Charles Dickens. Three Volumes in Two. Boston. James R. Osgood & Company. 1875. 418, 336, 600 pp., Illustrated. 12mo. Green Publisher's Cloth. Green end papers. A.e.g. First American Edition. Library Edition. Published by the official publisher of Dickens in America, simultaneously with the Library Edition of Chapman and Hall (London), an edition of Dickens' works in 30 volumes plus these two of Forster's Life. Wear at ends of spine and corners.. Mild foxing and offsetting on tissueguards for frontispieces. Very Good. Price: $125.00 9493 [Cigarette Cards]. [Dickens, Charles].- A Series of 25 Characters from Dickens. Series No. 2. A series of 25. London. John Player & Sons. [ca.1912]. 25 Individual Cards, unmounted . Each an illustration of a Character from Dickens. 1 3/8" x 2 5/8." First Edition. Illustrations after Kyd (pseud. for Joseph Clayton Clark). SecondSeries. Beginning ca. 1905, Player's Cigarettes issued several series of illustrated color-lithographed cards with characters from the writings of Charles Dickens. This series, in its early editions, is the most desirable of all cigarette cards. Each card was included with a package of cigarettes. This set is from the First Edition of the First and Second Series, 25 cards in each series. Good + to Very Good. Podeschi , H1035–1036. Price: $125.00 9497 Dickens, Charles.- Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens, (Boz,) Author of "Pickwick Papers," "Nicholas Nickleby," "Sketches of Every-Day Life," &c. &c. &c. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. 1840. 212 pp. Twenty-Four Illustrations by George Cruikshank with superb engravings by J. Yeager, printed on cream-colored paper 8vo. Half black calf and marbled boards. Very Early (?Second Printing of First) American Illustrated One Volume Edition, Complete. Has original final plate of Rose Maylie and Oliver, "The Fireside Plate." This edition is derived from the original English 3-volume edition, as also seen in the beginning of the text (see Wilkins, p.15) and is an early reissue of the first American edition (published in 1839), complete with the Cruikshank illustrations, in one volume. Lacks rear cover and part of spine. Front cover and front preliminary pages detached, showing residue of old clear tape. Covers worn at ends of spine, edges and at corners. Foxing. Plates with offsetting on rear but quite crisp. All plates present. Inscription on rear of frontispiece: "Peter Thacher / from E.L.L." Overall, Good +. Podeschi A31. Wilkins, pp. 12–16. Edgar & Vail, p.17 Price: $500.00 9498 Dickens, Charles.- Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens, (Boz,) Author of "Pickwick Papers," "Nicholas Nickleby," "Sketches of Every-Day Life," &c. &c. &c. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. Successors of Carey & Co. 1839. 212 pp. Twenty-Four Illustrations by George Cruikshank the last twelve signed also by Yeager, printed on cream-colored paper 8vo. Half-calf with Grey/Blue Alligator-Grained Cloth Covered boards. First American One Volume Edition, Later Issue (First issue with complete Cruikshank illustrations, including the "Fireside" Plate). The history of various American editions of "Oliver Twist" is quite complicated. The first book publication of "Oliver Twist" was issued in 1837 by Carey, Lea and Blanchard in Philadelphia in the form of the first two chapters as printed in February 1837 in "Bentley's Miscellany." As Podeschi notes, there was a gaggle of competing editions of the full "Oliver Twist" in America in 1839, but Lea & Blanchard appear to have priority. They first rushed in with an unillustrated two-volume edition and followed quickly with the one-volume edition with only two of the Cruikshank illustrations, although twenty four illustrations were announced. They then promptly produced this one volume edition with all 24 illustrations beautifully done, the last twelve being signed also by the engraver J. Yeager. Some copies have ads for "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Barnaby Rudge" as part of a supplement of publisher's ads. There is no such supplement in this copy. The early portion of the text has the earliest version of the wording, as in "Bentley's Miscellany" (where "Oliver Twist" was first published serially ); the later portions of the text have the wordings of the three-volume English edition, which appeared prior to the serial's completion in Bentley's magazine; this textual evidence is usually taken as a likely mark of the early state of this issue. This volume also contains the famous "Fireside Plate" of Oliver, Rose, Harry and Mrs. Maylie, a plate by Cruikshank which Dickens promptly suppressed in favor of a plate showing Oliver and Rose Maylie in church, standing by the memorial tablet to Oliver's mother, Agnes. The "Fireside Plate" is otherwise available only in the earliest versions of the London three-decker. The notation of authorship on the title page, giving acknowledgement to "Boz" as well as to Charles Dickens, is also tribute to the early state of this volume. Dickens, perhaps feeling the need and boldness to identify personally with his production, had immediately canceled the early use of "Boz" as his authorial name with "Oliver Twist" and, within a week, had a new title page struck with the Dickens attribution, only. Lea & Blanchard, perhaps unwilling to give up the advertising value of the name "Boz", use both names for the author in this very early edition. Hinge and corner wear. Foxing of text. Illustrations quite clean except for some offsetting from text. Else, a Very Good, tight copy. Podeschi (Gimbel) A31, 2nd Copy; VanderPoel B90; Allan D McGuire Collection (Sumner & Stillman) No. 12; Wilkins, pp. 13–16; American Imprints 55384; Brussel, East to West, pp. 75–76; Edgar & Vail, p.17. Price: $900.00 9505 Dickens, Charles.- Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens ("Boz"). With Forty-Two Illustrations from Designs by Marcus Stone. Philadelphia. T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 1865. 354 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's ads with ads also on inside of front cover. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens in wood engraving by Bobbett-Hooper. Illustrations after Marcus Stone 8vo. Illustrated paper wraps. Double column format. Second American Edition, in book form ( avery early impression). Peterson's Uniform Edition of Dickens' Works. The first American edition, in book form, of Our Mutual Friend was the four volume Bradburn edition. The original publication was a serial issue in Harper's Magazine. Both Harper's and this Peterson issue were published virtually simultaneously. The paper covered edition is obviously more fragile and rarer than the cloth covered volume. Lacks rear cover. Front cover partailly detached at hinge. Wear at edges and ends of spine without loss of text. Edges of front cover a bit frayed, but all present. Chip from spine without loss of text. Pages untrimmed. Owner's signature in pencil ontitle page. Overall, Very Good +, clean copy of this fragile item. Podeschi A152 (but an earlier impression than this described by Podeschi). VanderPoel B270. Wilkins, p. 32. Edgar & Vail, p.29–30. McGuire Collection (Sumner & Stillman), 76–8. Price: $250.00 9452 Dolby, George.- Charles Dickens as I Knew Him. The Story of the Reading Tours in Great Britain and America. (1866–1870). London. T. Fisher Unwin. N.D. [1885]. 466 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with red lettering on spine and front cover. Gilt titling on spine. Facsimiles of Dickens' and Dolby's signatures on front cover. T.e.g. First Edition. Sixth Thousand. Dolby was Dickens' manager, especially for his reading tours in Britain and America. He accompanied Dickens on his second American tour in 1867–68. Here we have an almost day-by-day narrative of Dickens through this trying period ofhis life. Dolby identified strongly with Dickens and gives a very personal view of this period at the end of Dickens' life. Covers and end papers soiled, especially spine. Mild wear at ends and edges of spine. Light foxing of page ends. Hinges starting internally. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Else, Very Good. Podeschi H151. Price: $140.00 9460 Cotsell, Michael.- The Companion to Our Mutual Friend. London. Allen & Unwin. 1986. 316 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt illustration on cover and gilt titling. Illustrated D.J. First Edition. An annotation of Dickens 1865 work on poverty, some unusual aspects of London life andsocial enterprise , and on waste collection. Part of the series of Companions for each of his major works, providing the most detailed annotations ever. As New. Price: $100.00 9461 Dickens, Charles.- The Magic Fishbone. Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird Aged Seven. London and New York. Frederick Warne & Co. [1921] Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Numerous black and white illustrations inserted in the text and 8 full-page colored plates (including title page). Small Oblong 4to. Illustrated paper covered boards with green publisher's cloth spine, titled in black. End papers and rear cover decorated with wreath enclosing Dickens' monogram. First Edition in this format. The Magic Fishbone is a story from "Holiday Romance," originally written and published in four parts by Dickens in 1868. First printed then in Volume XIX of All the Year Round. A fanciful romance, with moral overtones, supposedly told to Dickens by a seven year old girl. Minimal wear at corners of front cover. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Else, Very Good. Podeschi B301. Oppenlander, pp. 198–201. Price: $85.00 9462 Forster, John. - The Life of Charles Dickens.Two Volumes. Edited, with Notes by Andrew Lang. New York. Chapman and Hall & Charles Scribner’s Sons. N.D.[ca. 18 97] 528, 558 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens ineach volume. Illustrated. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth, decorated and titled in gilt. T.e.g. First American Edition, bound with sheets printed in England. "The Gadshill Edition." The Gadshill Edition, edited by Andrew Lang, was first published in 34 volumes in 1897–9. It was based on the last edition edited by Dickens himself. Added to the 34 volumes of original works was this 2 volume edition of Forster's Life of Dickens, originally published in 1872–4. In 1908, two more volumes of Miscellaneous Papers were added to the edition. This biography by Dickens' friend, editor, literary advisor, and literary executor, remains the standard biography to this day, based, as it is, on close acquaintance and access to the literary and personal papers of the subject, including Dickens' numerous letters to Forster, himself (with the consequent errors arising from lack of distance and a desire to protect Dickens' reputation). Forster's personality is said to be reflected in the character of Podsnap, in Our Mutual Friend. Slight fading of spines and soiling of covers. Tissue guards present intact. No foxing. Else, Very Good. Collins, NCBEL, III, 783. Podeschi, D140. Price: $95.00 9463 Johannsen, Albert.- Phiz. Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens, Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1956. 442 pp. Illustrated by Phiz. Large Oblong 4to. Red publisher's cloth with black label on spine and cartouche on spine and front cover with facsimile of Phiz's signature. Gilt lettering. Corrigenda slip bound in at front. T.e. stained grey. First Edition. Hablot K. Browne (1815–82) was principal illustrator of Dickens' novels, beginning in 1836 as the third illustrator of Pickwick Papers and continuing through A Tale of Two Cities in 1859. Here are presented 516 illustrations as etched by him. Notes are added by Johannsen on each illustration and its variants (Browne had to etch 2 or more plates for each novel, depending on the sales volume. The author had to break up 66 copies of First Editions of the novels to assemble for this volume a complete set of the Phiz variant illustrations. Covers soiled and slightly shaken. Text block Very Good. Price: $75.00 9464 Wilkins, William Glyde.- Charles Dickens in America. Compiled and Edited by William Glyde Wilkins. With 41 Illustrations and Portraits. New York. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1970. 318 pp. 8vo. Pink publisher's cloth. Reprint Edition by photo facsimile. First published in 1911. A richly illustrated documentary history of Dickens' visit to America in 1842, compiled and edited by America's leading Dickens enthusiast of the early 20th century. Includes guest lists, seating plans, commentary,speeches, etc. Small light stain onfront cover. Else, As New. Podeschi H482. Price: $39.00 9465 Eigner, Edwin M.- The Dickens Pantomime. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press. 1989. 191 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Breige publisher's cloth. Black titling on spine. First Edition. Eigner notes Dickens' fondness for pantomime, his lifelong engagement with it and how he weaves elements of pantomime into the plots and characters of his works. Scholarly and essential for a more nearly complete understanding of the Inimitable. Except for a spot of abrasion on the front free end paper, near Fine. Price: $24.00 9417 [Cigarette Cards]. [Dickens, Charles].- A Series of 5 Characters from Dickens: Dismal Jemmy, Luffey, The Fat Boy, Dumkins and Job Trotter from a Series of 50. London. John Player & Sons. [ca.1912-1923]. 5 Individual Cards, mounted . Each an illustration of a Character from Dickens. 1 3/8" x 2 5/8." Mounted on a large cardswith beveled openings to contain 5 cards. Early Edition. Illustrations after Kyd (pseud. for Joseph Clayton Clark). First and SecondSeries. Beginning ca. 1905, Player's Cigarettes issued several series of illustrated color-lithographed cards with characters from the writings of Charles Dickens. This series, in its early editions, is the most desirable of all cigarette cards. Each card was included with a package of cigarettes. Seldom do we find an early edition set in such good condition and mounted as carefully as these. Near Fine. Podeschi , H1035–1036. Price: $60.00 9418 [Cigarette Cards]. [Dickens, Charles].- A Series of 5 Characters from Dickens: Mr. Snodgrass, Mr. Dombey, Capt. Cuttle, Major Bagstock, and Mrs. Mac Stinger from a Series of 25. London. John Player & Sons. [ca.1912]. 5 Individual Cards, mounted . Each an illustration of a Character from Dickens. 1 3/8" x 2 5/8." Mounted on a large cardswith beveled openings to contain 5 cards. Early Edition. Illustrations after Kyd (pseud. for Joseph Clayton Clark). First and SecondSeries. Beginning ca. 1905, Player's Cigarettes issued several series of illustrated color-lithographed cards with characters from the writings of Charles Dickens. This series, in its early editions, is the most desirable of all cigarette cards. Each card was included with a package of cigarettes. Seldom do we find an early edition set in such good condition and mounted as carefully as these. This set is from the First Edition of the First and Second Series. Near Fine. Podeschi , H1035–1036. Price: $75.00 9419 [Cigarette Cards]. [Dickens, Charles].- A Series of 5 Characters from Dickens: Nell, Dick Swiveler, Newman Noggs, Capt. Cuttle and Major Bagstock from a Series of 50. London. John Player & Sons. [ca.1912-1923]. 5 Individual Cards, mounted . Each an illustration of a Character from Dickens. 1 3/8" x 2 5/8." Mounted on a large cardswith beveled openings to contain 5 cards. Early Edition. Illustrations after Kyd (pseud. for Joseph Clayton Clark). First and SecondSeries. Beginning ca. 1905, Player's Cigarettes issued several series of illustrated color-lithographed cards with characters from the writings of Charles Dickens. This series, in its early editions, is the most desirable of all cigarette cards. Each card was included with a package of cigarettes. Seldom do we find an early edition set in such good condition and mounted as carefully as these. Near Fine. Podeschi , H1035–1036. Price: $60.00 9414 Coyne, J. Stirling.- Wanted, One Thousand Spirited Young Milliners, for the Gold Diggings, A Farce.– In One Act. With Original Cast, Costumes, and All the Stage Business. Spencer's Boston Theatre. - No. LXXVIII. Boston. William V. Spencer. N.D. 17 pp. 12mo. Printed illustrated paper wraps. Front cover decorated with banners, proscenium crowned by shield in Stars and Stripes, bayonets, swords and halberds.Sewn. ? Second American Edition. Spencer's Boston Theatre. A Collection of Scarce Acting Tragedies, Comedies, Dramas, Farces and Burlettas. Uniform in Price and in Style. A truly comic farce, originally presented at the Royal Olympic Theatre in London and in New York at Burton's Theatre, both in 1852. In the New York production, William Burton, illustrious producer and actor, famous for his Dickens productions and characterizations, played the lead as the solicitor's clerk. Revived in Baltimore in 1858 and at the famous Howard Athenaeum in Boston in 1862. The cast is listed for each of these productions. A solicitor's clerk, together with a somewhat disreputable medical student (from Guy's Hospital), attempt to recruit a large number of young milliners on the pretext of their going to the Gold Fields of Australia, where the workers are lonely. Instead, the recruiters indulge themselves with the applicants in farcical horseplay and seduction. Of interest, as was the reference in Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" of 1838–9, milliners in early to mid 19th century England were considered to be young ladies of easy virtue. This implication is played out broadly in this farce. Browning at edges of covers. Moderate foxing. Spine split in two places. Owner's signature in pencil on front cover ( I. W. Sanger). Else Good +. Hornblow, II, 122. Price: $138.00 9413 Dickens, Charles.- Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens, for Christmas, 1863. London. Chapman & Hall. 1863. 48 pp., double columned. 8vo. Printed blue paper wraps, as issued. First Edition. Publisher's ads on verso of front cover and on recto and verso of rear cover. The Christmas Number from "All The Year Round" for 1863. According to VanderPoel, Dickens wrote Chapters I & VII. Oppenlander confirms this and indicates that Chapter II was by Elizabeth Gaskell (who notoriously rejected Dickens' offers to write for "All The Year Round"); Chapter III by Halliday; Chapter IV by Yates; Chapter V by Amelia Edwards; and Chapter VI by Charles Collins (Dickens' son-in-law and the original illustrator of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"). Owner's signature in ink ("Wm Phillips") on front cover. Old vertical crease. Covers slightly soiled. Else, Very Good. Podeschi B283 (for American edition), E16. VanderPoel B449 .Oppenlander p.136. Price: $150.00 9406 Dickens, Charles.- American Notes for General Circulation. New-York. Harper & Brothers. 1842. 92 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. 8vo Self wraps. Double column format. Sewn. Disbound from later binding. First American Edition. Dickens' notorious publication of his negative (mostly) impressions of America after his first trip there in 1842 (with Mrs. Dickens in tow). Dickens was feted and celebrated hugely by his American audience, including President Tyler of the United States. Despite this, rancorous over America's loose copyright laws which permitted widespread pirating of his work, Dickens loosed this barrage at his hosts. (The British copyright law sponsored by Talfourd was barely in effect then, having receiveds royal assent only on July 1, 1842). A partial answer to Dickens came in the publication three months later of Henry Wood's "Change for the American Notes," also first published by Harper's, both in the same format. The publisher's catalogue in the Dickens work is dated November 2, 1842, establishing the priority of the Harper's edition in America (despite Wilkins' assertion, but consonant with Edgar & Vail and others). Piracies by "Brother Jonathan" (dated November 7th, 1842) and others promptly followed. This copy was distributed in England at One Shilling. Covers slightly soiled. Lacks the final sheet (2 pp) of publisher's ads. Small tear at inner margin of first sheet of publisher's ads encroaches slightly on text of several ads on p. 2. Only mildly foxed. Faint water stain on leading edge of early text. A paper label pasted to verso of front cover. Very Good, otherwise. Sabin 19996. Podeschi A67. Wilkins, p. 22–4. NCBEL III, 821–2. Howes, II, 316. Edgar & Vail, pp.20–21. Page, Dickens Chronology, pp. 31–34. Am. Imp., 42,1501. Price: $225.00 9357 Whipple, Edwin Percy.- Charles Dickens. The Man and His Work. With an Introduction by Arlo Bates. In Two Volumes. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1912. 286, 354pp. 12mo. Green publisher's paper-covered boards. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed. Mostly uncut. First Edition. Frontispiece engraving of the Lawrence portrait of a young Dickens in Vol. I and of 56 year old Dickens in Vol. II.. Engraved title page with image of Gads Hill Place, front (Vol. I) and rear (Vol. II).Copy No. 540 of 550 printed. A literary biography of the Inimitable by a noted Boston literary critic and author, intimate of Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James T. Fields et al, master of the bon mot and imaginative admirer of Dickensian humor. One page carelessly opened at margin. Else, Near Fine. Price: $75.00 9403 Goldberg, Michael.- Carlyle and Dickens. Athens, GA. University of Georgia Press. 1972. 248 pp. Frontispiece portrait drawings of Carlyle and Dickens. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with silver titling on spine. First Edition. A detailed analysis of the relationship, personal and literary, between Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. There was a strong element of Master and Disciple in their close friendship. Slightly dusty at top of text block. Else, Near Fine. Price: $24.00 9420 [Cigarette Cards]. [Dickens, Charles].- A Series of 5 Characters from Dickens: Mr. Turveydrop, Newman Noggs, Jo, Mr. Chadband and Mr. Bucket from a Series of 50. London. John Player & Sons. [ca.1912-1923]. 5 Individual Cards, mounted . Each an illustration of a Character from Dickens. 1 3/8" x 2 5/8." Mounted on a large cardswith beveled openings to contain 5 cards. Early Edition. Illustrations after Kyd (pseud. for Joseph Clayton Clark). First and SecondSeries. Beginning ca. 1905, Player's Cigarettes issued several series of illustrated color-lithographed cards with characters from the writings of Charles Dickens. This series, in its early editions, is the most desirable of all cigarette cards. Each card was included with a package of cigarettes. Seldom do we find an early edition set in such good condition and mounted as carefully as these. Near Fine. Podeschi , H1035–1036. Price: $60.00 9393 Dickens, Charles.- Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Being the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words. Conducted by Charles Dickens. Containing the Amount of One Regular Number and a Half. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1853. 36 pp. 12mo. Modern marbled paper wraps applied with printed label on front cover. First Edition. It was Dickens' custom,while editor of Household Words and All the Year Round, to issue an extra number at Christmas, containing a series of stories, generally related in theme and often written by a series of authors. Dickens often wrote part of the issue. This issue is composed of nine stories, of which Dickens wrote only the first ("The Schoolboy's Story") and the last ("Nobody's Story"). The other stories are by Eliza Lynn, George Sala, Adelaide A. Procter, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Dixon & W. H. Wills, Samuel Sidney and Mr. William Gaskell. All were, for the most part, regular and valued contributors to Household Words. Minimal browning at edges. Head and tail slightly trimmed, with no loss of text. Else, Very Good. Lohrli, p. 118. Podeschi, B229 (for separate American Edition). Price: $75.00 9389 Dickens, Charles.- Showing What Christmas Is to Everybody. Extra Number for Christmas of Household Words. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. Christmas, 1851. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1851. 24 pp. 12mo. Modern marbled paper wraps applied with printed label on front cover. First Edition. It was Dickens' custom,while editor of Household Words and All the Year Round, to issue an extra number at Christmas, containing a series of stories, generally related in theme and often written by a series of authors. Dickens often wrote part of the issue. In this case, he wrote only the first segment, "What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older." The first several issues (1850–3) were published without wraps. Among the other authors were George Sala, Samuel Sidney and Harriet Martineau. Minimal foxing at edges. Head and tail slightly trimmed, with no loss of text. Else, Very Good. Lohrli, pp. 87–8. Podeschi, E115. Price: $75.00 9380 Dickens, Charles.- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. A New Edition. Bound with Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. New Edition, Complete. Philadelphia and Baltimore for "Pickwick"; Philadelphia for "Sketches." Lea and Blanchard and N. Hickman 1842. 371, 268 pp. Engraved title in both . 12mo, in 6's, both. Half brown calf with marbled boards. Elaborate tooling in gilt of five bands on spine. T.e.g. Double column format for each volume. Early, but not first, issues of the First American Illustrated Edition of Sketches and the First or Second Edition of Pickwick. "Pickwick" illustrated with some of the "extra" plates by Sam Weller, Jr. ; "Sketches" illustrated by George Cruikshank. Engraving in both by J. Yeager. "Sketches by Boz" was first published in America by Carey, Lea and Blanchard in 1837. The "New Edition, Complete" was first published in 1839 with Cruikshank illustration, in double column format, also in one volume. This issue of "Sketches" contains "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" and "The Pantomime of Life," not in the First English edition. The engraved title, here, is dated 1839, while the printed title is dated 1842. There are two illustrations in addition to the engraved title in each volume. The engraved title of "The [Pickwick] Papers" is dated 1841, (originally published in this version in 1838) by Lea and Blanchard of Philadelphia, while the printed title carries an imprint of N. Hickman of Baltimore, a very rare imprint of this first American edition of "Pickwick." Podeschi (A101 and D2) lists 2 work of Dickens from 1842–6 published by Hickman. All were derived from Lea and Blanchard editions. Wear at ends and edges of spine and wear at corners. Boards abraded. Front hinge cracked internally and starting at head externally. First signature shaken. Mild foxing and browning. Else Very Good. Edgar & Vail, p.16 (Sketches), p. 17 (Pickwick). Wilkins, pp. 7–13. Podeschi, A13 (Fourth Copy)(Sketches); A24 (Pickwick). Price: $600.00 5653 Dickens , Charles (Editor).- The Pic-Nic Papers. W. H. Maxwell, Thomas Moore, Miss Strickland, Horace Smith, Leitch Ritchie, and Other Celebrated Writers. London. Ward and Lock. N.D. 472 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank and Phiz. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth (rebound professionally with old spine laid down) and new end papers. T.e.g. Early Edition "The Lamplighter’s Story" by Dickens is included. Originally a 3 volume anthology by various authors (including W. Harrison Ainsworth, not mentioned in the title), written to benefit the widow and children of the publisher John Macrone, who died at age 28 in 1837. Published in 1841. The illustration entitled "The Philosopher's Stone" is the last collaboration of Dickens and Cruikshank. Minimal browning of preliminaries. Else, Very Good with very clean illustrations. Schlicke, p.443. Price: $195.00 8617 (Unidentified Photographer).- Charles Dickens. Carte-de-Visite. N.P. (?London] N.Pub. (? Watkins) N.D. [ca. 1861] 1 p. ca. 4" x 2 1/2" First Edition. A photograph of Dickens in semi-profile, possibly by D. Fruwirth or by Watkins. It appears to date from ca. 1861. The photograph, in carte de visite size, is mounted on card, as is typical, with Dickens' name printed on mount Minor foxing with spot above image. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 8737 Dickens, Charles.- Oliver Twist. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. 1839. 212 pp.+ 16 pp. publisher's catalogue divided to front and rear. Twenty-Four Illustrations by George Cruikshank with engravings by J. Yeager, printed on cream-colored paper 8vo. Purple pebbled publisher's cloth with gilt illustrated titling on spine. First American Illustrated One Volume Edition, Complete. Has original final plate of Rose Maylie and Oliver, "The Fireside Plate." Ads for Cooper's "Homeward Bound," "Sam Slick's sayings and Doings." Ads also for this edition of "Oliver Twist", Nicholas Nickleby" promised as "Now Ready" in parts (No. 9 of 20), a new edition of "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank illustration to be revised by Dickens, an illustrated edition of "The Pickwick Papers" (illustrated by Crowquill and Yeager) and the promise (still delayed) of "Barnaby Rudge" as soon as it is received. This edition is derived from the original English 3-volume edition and is the first American edition, complete with the Cruikshank illustrations, in one volume, here in its original cloth. Covers worn at ends of spine and at corners. Water spotting of covers with rings. Foxing. Plates with offsetting on rear but quite crisp. Rear hinge starting internally. Pp. 29–32 and attendant plate somewhat loose. All plates present. Overall, Very Good. Podeschi A31. Wilkins, pp. 12–16. Edgar & Vail, p.17 Price: $1,200.00 8738 Dickens, Charles.- Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. By the Author of "The Pickwick Papers," "Oliver Twist," and "Nicholas Nickleby." With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. 1839. 268 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. Cruikshank illustrations engraved by J. Yeager. Printed on cream-colored paper. 8vo. Pebbled purple-brown publisher's cloth, with gilt illustration and titling on spine. First American Illustrated One Volume Edition, Complete. In 1838, Carey, Lea & Blanchard published "Sketches by Boz" in 10 monthly parts, each with two Cruikshank illustrations. In 1839, these were combined in a one volume edition, described herein, with 2 added Tales, "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" and "The Pantomime of Life." This was the first book appearance of these two stories, preceding the English book publication. The publisher's catalogue is identical with that published in the 1839 One-Volume Illustrated Edition of "Oliver Twist." Fading and soilingof covers. Head and tail of spine worn with separationof top half of front hinge externally. Corners and edges worn. Mild foxing. Offsetting to rear of plates, which are clean and crisp. Else, Very Good. Podeschi A13. Wilkins, pp.11-12. Edgar & Vail, p.16. Price: $950.00 9379 Dickens, Charles Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Boston. Fetridge & Co. 1854. 47 pp. Ads on rear cover for nostrum. 8vo. Pale pink printed paper wraps. Sewn. First American Edition. The Extra Christmas Number of Household Words for 1853. Composed of nine stories, of which Dickens wrote only the first (The Schoolboy's Story") and the last ("Nobody's Story"). The other stories are by Eliza Lynn, George Sala, Adelaide A. Procter, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Dixon & W. H. Wills, Samuel Sidney and Mr. William Gaskell. All were, for the most part, regular and valued contributors to Household Words. Spine worn. Water stain on upper half of cover and some subsequent pages. Corners bent. Else, Very Good. Podeschi, B229. Lohrli, p. 118. Price: $110.00 5608 Dickens, Charles.- The Cricket on The Hearth. N.P. [Boston]. N.Pub. [Jordan and Wiley] . N.D. [?1846.] 42 pp. Single Illustration at end. 8vo. Disbound. Double-column format. ? First American Edition (priority not established). One of the earliest American editions of "The Cricket on the Hearth," Dickens' Christmas book for 1846. Priority has not beenestablished between this edition and the Harpers' edition. Lacks original printed wrappers and advertising pages. Minimal foxing of first 3 pages. Small loss in blank margin on p. 1. Else, Very Good. Edgar and Vail, p. 23. Podeschi A96. VanderPoel B404. Price: $175.00 5590 Dickens, Charles.- Master Humphrey’s Clock. New York. George Munro’s Sons. 1894. 117 pp. + 45 pp. publisher's ads and other ads. 12 mo. Printed paper wraps. First Edition in this format. Munro's Library of Popular Novels, No 78. A very cheap 19th Century edition of Dickens' novel, offered also as a premium for the purchase of Blackwell's Durham smoking tobacco. Among the ads is one for a standard baseball (pictured) in exchange for tobacco coupons. Chips from foot of front cover. Yellowing of pages and soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $45.00 5554 Dickens, Charles.- A Christmas Carol. Printed in the Advanced Stage of Pitman’s Shorthand. New York. Isaac Pitman and Sons. N.D. 106 pp. 12mo. Greeen publisher's cloth with gilt titling on front cover and spine. Charles Dickens' signature embossed in the blind on front cover. First Edition (New Era Edition). The translation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" into Pitman's shorthand. This form of stenography was close to that used by Dickens inhis early years as a court stenographer and newspaper reporter. He was the fastest stenographer then known. Ex libris with one library stamp. Mild wear at head and tail ofspine. Abrasion at fore-edge of front cover with slight wrinkling and slight loss of gilt from a few letters of the title. Else Good + with Very Good text block. Price: $35.00 Dickens, Page Two 10991 Sanders, Andrew.- The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities. London. Unwin Hyman 1988. First Edition. 176 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth. Titled in gilt on spine, illustrated in gilt on front cover.. D.J. One of the on-going series of volumes annotating the major works of Charles Dickens. Each volume is dedicated to a single novel, this one to "A Tale of Two Cities" The notes are principally factual, rather than critical. They tell much about Victorian culture, Dickens in his times, his associations and the cultural context of the novels. Near Fine in Near Fine D.J. Price: $175.00 10857 Cruikshank, George, [and Charles Dickens and possibly William Makepeace Thackeray ].- [Pamphlet]. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. With Illustrations and Notes by George Cruikshank. New York and London. G. W. Carleton and Bell & Daldy. 1871. Illustrated. First American Edition in this format. 16 pp. (13 pp. + 3 pp. Notes on reverse of last page and both sides of rear cover). 12mo. Tan illustrated and printedstiff paper covers. All textual pages siif, also. Podeschi B86 (for this edition). Van Duzer p. 69, Cohn #243 (for the first edition). An American reissue of the comic verse by George Cruikshank and Charles Dickens, possibly together with William Makepeace Thackeray. Originally issued in 1839, the authorship was, for a long time, a subject of controversy. In “The Colophon. New Graphic Series. Number One” (1939. pp. 39-66), Anne L. Haight adds an interesting discourse on this famous work attributed at different times to Dickens, Thackeray and George Cruikshank, alone or in combination. From Dickens' letters, Haight argues that Dickens wrote the Preface and the Notes, and that he corrected Cruikshank's verses, himself adding the last verse. There is a possibility also that Thackeray contributed in a major way, but his illustrations have been found and differ significantly from Cruikshank’s published version. The verses are allegedly traditional. After his famous argument with Dickens, according to Haight, Cruikshank reissued the work without the Notes and with Dickens’ last verse replaced by three others by Cruikshank. The original work was adapted in 1839 by Charles Scully as “an historical, pantomimical, melo-dramatical, ballettical, burlesque burletta, in two acts…from an old ballad” (Podeschi, H837) and performed at the New Strand Theatre As noted by Podeschi, the first and last pages of this Carleton issue resemble wrappers, but are numbered in sequence. Front cover detached. Mild soiling of coversSmall chips from lower edge of front cover, wthout loss of text. Else Good +. Price: $135.00 10869 Dickens, Charles.- The Cricket on the Hearth. With Selections from Sketches by Boz New York. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1900. First Edition in this Series. 192 pp. + 8 pp.publisher’s catalogue at rear. 32mo. Tan printed and decorated paper wraps. An inexpensive edition of Charles Dickens’ third Christmas book in an attractive format. “The Cricket on the Hearth” is accompanied by two items from “Sketches by Boz”, “A Christmas Dinner” and ”The New Year”. This volume is issued in America by the English publisher. Bookseller’s tags at foot of front cover and title page. A charming illustrated ad for the Columbia Phonograph Co. on rear cover, showing a cylinder “graphophone. One of the major series of inexpensive 19th century productions by the distinguished British publisher, Cassell & Co. Mild soiling of cover and page edges. Else, Very Good +. Price: $55.00 10870 Dickens, Charles.- The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. London. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1891. First Edition in this Series. 192 pp. 32mo. Greyish tan printed paper wraps. An inexpensive edition of Charles Dickens’ fifth Christmas book in an attractive format. Bookseller’s tag at foot of front cover. A charming ad for “a luxury no longer unknown. Barber & Company’s French Coffee. As used in Paris,…”, “One shilling per pound, including tin”. One of the major series of inexpensive 19th century productions by the distinguished British publisher, Cassell & Co. Mild soiling of cover and page edges. Else, Very Good +. Price: $55.00 9756 Lehmann, R[udolph] C[hambers] (Editor).- Charles Dickens as Editor. Being Letters Written by Him to William Henry Wills His Sub-Editor. New York. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1972. Illustrated with portraits. Reprintof the 1912 Edition. 404 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling. Letters written by Dickens to William Henry Wills, his sub-editor. They give important insights into Dickens himself through most of his career. Near Fine. Price: $50.00 10016 Jacobson, Wendy.S. - The Companion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London. Allen & Unwin. 1986. Illustrated. First Edition. 209 pp. 8vo. Illustrated green publisher's cloth. illustrated and titled in gilt. Illustrated D.J. Green end papers. One of the series of the most comprehensively annotated volumes, each on a work of Charles Dickens. Great scholarship, readable and authoritative. Adds greatly to the reading of the novel, in this case Dickens' last and only half-finished mystery novel. As. New. Price: $155.00 10690 Dickens, Charles.- No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins.. Being the Extra Christmas Number of Every Saturday for Christmas,1867. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1867. First American Edition. 42 pp. + 6 pp. Ads at front and 4 pp. Ads at rear. Ads on covers. 8vo. Orange Paper Covers, as Issued. Podeschi E60. The first American edition of this extra Christmas number. From “Every Saturday” with its own cover as well as the orange printed cover. By 1867, Ticknor & Fields had become the prime American publisher of Dickens. This is printed from Advance Sheets from the Extra Christmas Number of “All the Year Round”. It also, on the cover, promises a new story by Dickens for “Atlantic Monthly” and “Our Young Folks” for 1868. Covers detached. Outer orange covers soiled and chipped. Else, Good +. Price: $145.00 10566 Forster, John.- The Life of Charles Dickens. Three Volumes. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott & Company. 1872–4. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens in each volume. Plates. First American Edition. 420, 494, 600 pp., 10 pp.publisher's catalogue in Vol. II. Large 12mo. in 6's Plum colored publisher's cloth with Dickens' portrait in gilt on front cover and gilt titling on spine. Beveled boards. T.e.g. Chocolate coated end papers. Podeschi (Gimbel) H188. The true first American edition of Forster's great biography of Dickens. This first volume was printed in 1872, not from the corrected plates, as indicated for later editions in the preface to Volume II. The first issue, like that printed in England with great haste, was fraught with errors. The other two volumes, 1873 and 1874, are also the first issue. No collection of Dickens is complete without a set of Forster's Life and this is a lovely copy of the true First American Edition of this great work. Minimal wear at ends of spine. Slight disruption of frot hinge of Vlume II. Old tideline in Volume II on several plates and pages. Owner’s signature, “R. H. Alvey” on title page and front end paper of Vol. I. Else, Very Good. Price: $395.00 10591 Dickens, Charles (Editor).- Household Words. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. Volume XVIII. From June 19, 1858, to November 27, 1858. Being from No. 430 to No. 453, and Also Including the Extra Number and a Half for Christmas [1858, “A House to Let”]. London. Household Words Office, Bradbury and Evans. 1858. First Edition. 572 pp. + 36 pp Extra Christmas Number. 8vo. (signed in 12mo) Green publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on spine. Double column format. Contains all (Parts 1–14) of Elizabeth Gaskell’s “My Lady Ludlow”, in serial parts, Wilkie Collins’s “The Poisoned Meal” as well as the usual assortment of outstanding journalism including other articles and stories by Wilkie Collins, verse by Adelaide Anne Procter, et al. Mild wear on ends of spine and corners. Soiling of covers with white stain at edge of front cover. Minimal foxing of end papers. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free end paper. Hinges starting internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10453 [Sheet Music]. Young, Charlotte (Words) and Blockley, John (Music).- Blockley’s Cameo Music. Household Words (Companion to the Favorite Song ‘Hearts and Homes’) Written by Charlotte Young. Composed & Inscribed to Charles Dickens, Esq. by John Blockley. Philadelphia. Lee & Walker, successor to Geo. Willig. N.D. Frst Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Disbound. Decoratively engraved cover. Not in Lightwood. A heartfelt ballad by Young, dedicated to Dickens by the composer. On the cover is a music store stamp of Lignoski, Kenner & Co. of La Grange, GA. On cover is quotation from Shakespeare: ‘Familiar in their Mouths as “Household words”’. Mild foxing and soiling. Faint water stain at upper leading edge, throughout. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 10463 Dickens, Charles.- Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens ("Boz"). With Forty-One Illustrations from Designs by Marcus Stone. Philadelphia. T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 1865. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens in wood engraving. Illustrations after Marcus Stone Second American Edition, in book form. 486, 446 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's catalogue. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Spine illustrated and titled in gilt.Yellow end papers. Podeschi A152 (but an earlier impression than this described by Podeschi). VanderPoel B270. Wilkins, p. 32. Edgar & Vail, p.29–30. McGuire Collection (Sumner & Stillman), 76–8. The first American edition, in book form, of Our Mutual Friend was the four volume Bradburn edition. The original publication was a serial issue in Harper's Magazine. Both Harper's and this Peterson issue were published virtually simultaneously. The dating to 1865 is clear from the ads for Peterson’s Magazine on p.9 at rear, where a greatly improved format for the magazine is promised. Wear at edges, ends of spine and corners. Cover cracking at front edge of spine, both volumes. Slight off-setting of illustrations. Volume I shaken at one signature. In fact better condition than the usual Peterson edition. Overall, Good +. Price: $375.00 10480 Dickens, Charles.- Bleak House. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1853. First Edition. 624 pp. 8vo. Contemporary black polished 3/4 calf decorated in the blind with brown cloth covered boards. Spine elaborately decorated in gilt and with brown leather label titled in gilt. Smith, I, 81–84. Bound from the parts. A true first edition of Bleak House, with all the points called for by Smith and with all ten of the dark plates, in excellent state, by Phiz, from duplicate engravings as noted by J. F. Dexter (Eckel, p. 81) . Frontispiece and vignette engraved as well as printed title. Darkening in margins of plates. Virtually no foxing. Lacks 1 plate at p.41. Else, A Very Good copy of what many think is Dickens's best work. Price: $785.00 8766 Dickens, Charles.- Bleak House. With Sixty-One Illustrations by F. Barnard. New York. Harper & Brothers. N.D. [1871-9] First American Household Edition. 361 pp. 4to. Green illustrated publisher's cloth with gilt illustration and lettering on front cover and spine. double column format. Wilkins, pp.46-7. Jarndyce CXIII. Podeschi D68 and D66(English issue). The Household Edition, in 22 volumes (with Forster's "Life") published in the period 1871-1879, was the first edition after Dickens' death and had new illustrations by Barnard and others. In America, this edition was published by Harper & Brothers (in 1872-1877) in a new typesetting and , as a local issue of the English (Chapman & Hall) edition, by D. Appleton. Harpers did not use all the illustrations of the English edition, substituting in some volumes (not Bleak House) illustrations by American artists. Wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Owner's signature on free fly leaf: "Mary Lovett." Else, Very Good. Price: $98.00 10350 Dickens, Charles.- The Holly Tree Inn and A Christmas Treee. New York. Baker & Taylor Company. 1907. Illustrations, some in color, by George Alfred Williams. First Edition of this issue. 139 pp. 4to. Green publisher's cloth, floral embossing on front cover, lettered and decorated in gilt. Three color illustrations pasted on front cover. Pages bordered in green rulings. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed. Podeschi D153, for Williams's illustration of A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth. A handsome issue of The Holly Tree Inn and A Christmas Tree with the illustrations of George Alfred Williams (1875-?), born in New Jersey, self taught and well known for his genre paintings, posters and illustrations, especially of children's books. Among his other illustrations of Dickens are "A Christmas Carol", "Cricket on the Hearth" and Sweetser's "Ten Boys from Dickens". Mild wear at head, tail and edges of covers. Mild foxing. Name clipped from front end paper. Small chips from illustrations on front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $80.00 10402 Dickens, Charles.- Wellerisms. From "Pickwick" & "Master Humphrey's Clock" Selected by Charles F. Rideal and Edited with an Introduction by Charles Kent, Author of "The Humor and Pathos of Charles Dickens." London. George Redway. 1886. First Edition. 174 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's ads at rear and 8 pp. ads at front. 18mo. Illustrated red publisher's cloth with gilt titling. NCBEL III 785. A presentation copy, inscribed by Rideal on the title page. The assembled humor of Dickens' first comic character, for whom Pickwick plays the straight man; with an introduction on the origin of the character. Dickens' conception of Tony Weller caused the sales of "Pickwick" to rise from 400 copies per month to 40,000 copies per month. Pages roughly opened. Covers soiled. Very slight wear at ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $87.00 10269 Anonymous.- [Woodblock Print] Gadshill-Place, Near Rochester, the Home of Charles Dickens. In The Illustrated London News, Supplement, June 18, 1870, p. 637. First Edition. Pages 1 leaf (2 pp.).Fo. Loose sheet. First Edition. Illustrated. A woodblock print in the Illoiustrated News showing Charles Dickens in the garden at Gadshill Place. This was printed 1 week after Dickens' death, probably in association with an article about him. He had just been buried at Poets' Corner in Westmrnster Abbey. The print occupies one-half a page of the newspaper and is unsigned. Very Good +. London. The Illustraterd News. 1870. Price: $80.00 10289 Dickens, Charles.- Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. People's Edition. With Illustrations by John M'Lenan (sic!). First American Edition, in book form, of the Collected Works of Charles Dickens. One of eventual 38 (?) volumes published between 1855 and 1871. Pages 523 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's ads at front.8vo. Brown fine grained "morocco" publisher's cloth. Gilt illustration and titling on spine. Three false bands on spine. Embossed in theblind on both covers is a cartouche reporting "Peterson's Uniform Duodecimo Edition of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens 'Boz' ". Brown coated end papers. First American Edition, in book form, of the Collected Works of Charles Dickens. One of eventual 38 (?) volumes published between 1855 and 1871. Twelve wood engravings by John McLenan.Peterson's Uniform Edition of Dickens' Works. Podeschi A147 (for fully illustrated edition), D24-27. VanderPoel B260 (see also B261:1, 2). Wilkins, p. 31. Edgar & Vail, p.29. The first American edition, in book form, of Great Expectations was issued by Peterson who had purchased the manuscript and proof sheets and paid Dickens £1000 for the privilege. He claims his volume had preceded the English volume and may be the true first edition of what has traditionally been thought to be the hardest Dickens title to come by. Harpers Weekly published the parts issue. Peterson published several versions of this title (without priority, except that Edgar & Vail state that the fully illustrated edition was probably later than the first issue) with the illustrations by John McLenan in varying numbers. This issue is from the first uniform collected edition of the works of Charles Dickens published in America (Wilkins, p. 41). Although stated to be duodecimo, this Peoples [American] Edition is signed and gathered in 8's. The dating of Peterson issues can often be surmised from the list of Dickens titles in the ads or on the title page. Here, "Our Mutual Friend" is listed, but not "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" or "John Jasper's Secret". Thus, the date of publication is ca. 1865. Dickens violated his arrangement with Peterson and with Harper's, for which he had been paid by them, by announcing in early 1867 that Ticknor and Fields was henceforth his only official American publisher. He eventually had to buy out Harper's interest. Mild wear at corners. Edges of spine worn, with chips and tears, without encroachment on titling. Faint water stain in gutter of last few signatures. Overall, Very Good + for this fragile item, rare and usually seen in disreputable covers. Philadelphia. T. B. Peterson & Brothers. N.D. [ca. 1865] Price: $450.00 10253 [Salesman's Sample Book - Prospectus]. Dickens, Charles.- The Autograph Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty Volumes. Edited by Richard Garnett, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. First Edition. 8vo. Embossed green paper covers with embossed titling. Untrimmed pages. Tissue guards. Stapled. First Edition. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. A prospectus for the "Autograph Edition" of Dickens' Works. This 30 volume edition was edited by Richard Garnett and was a sumptuous production: 103 illustrations more than in the "De Luxe Edition," almost 700 full-page engravings, photogravures or engravings, all on Japanese paper and struck from the original plates, 213 further illustrations, portraits of Dickens, autograph signatures, and 13 manuscript page facsimiles, in two binding types. The prospectus has a description of the purposes of the edition, sample illustrations, portraits of Dickens and of Garnett, samples of text, autographs and manuscript. Garnett wrote a general introduction as well as introductions to each book. In this copy of the prospectus are selections (illustrations and text) from various works, including a page of the manuscript from Volume Eight, "'Old Curiosity Shop, II and Reprinted Pieces". Mild soiling of edges of cover. Mild staining at staples. Else, Near Fine. London. Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1900. Price: $175.00 10133 Dickens, Charles.- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. A New Edition, with Numerous Illustrations, by Sam Weller, Jr. and Alfred Crowquill, Esq. This is the first illustrated American work by Dickens, preceded only by the five volume unillustrated edition published by Carey, Lea and Blanchard hard on the publication of each cluster of four parts. Several of these five volumes preceded the English publication of "Pickwick" in bound form and Volume One, issued in only 1500 copies because of the unknown qualities of the author, is very scarce, indeed. All ads are present. The illustrations are very clean. First Illustrated American Edition. Wilkins, p.8. Podeschi A23. Edgar & Vail, p.17. Lacks backstrip of spine. Mild foxing , as expected. Mildly shaken at 3 signatures. Covers hang by one cord each. Else, Very Good. A remarkably good copy of a fragile and uncommon item. Philadelphia. Carey, Lea and Blanchard. 1838. Price: $950.00 10137 Dickens, Charles.- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy. In Two Chapters. A Christmas memento from Samuel A. Dalton, printed in a limited edition in 1958. the design and illustrations are by Abruzzi, format and typography by Robert Donald. Bound by Oldach. printed in red and black. First Edition in this format. As New. Philadelphia. Samuel A. Dalton 1958. Price: $50.00 10141 ? Greatbach.- Vignette Engraving of a Photograph of Charles Dickens A vignette engraving of the head and shoulders of Charles Dickens, often used as a frontispiece to volumes of his works. The engraving possibly by Greatbach from an original photograph by J. & C. Watkins of London. Edition uncertain. Very Good. N.P. [London]. N.Pu. N.D. [ca. 1861] Price: $10.00 10142 Stephen, Leslie.- Biography of Charles Dickens. (Cover Title: Life of Dickens). A pamphlet containing a brief and intimate biography of Charles Dickens. The text is taken from the entry on Dickens in the Dictionary of National Biography. It was reprinted as a supplement to the later (ca. 1900) de luxe edition of Frank T. Marzials "Life of Charles Dickens," issued by John D. Morris of Philadelphia in an edition limited to 1000 copies. First Edition. Podeschi H428. See also Podeschi H313 and VanderPoel E41(1 & 2). Covers soiled. Small chip from foredge of front cover. N.P. N.Pu. N.D. [ca. 1888]. Price: $45.00 10145 [Sheet Music]. Wilson, W.- The Great Exhibition Quadrilles. A series of quadrilles for piano solo to celebrate the Great Exhibition of 1851-52 in Hyde Park, London. A grand lithograph depicts the Crystal Palace and a large fashionable crowd in the Park to view the exhibition. The Great Exhibition was the first theme park and came out of a suggestion by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, as a celebration of Britain's industrial, scientific and technical success. Other nations, including America, provided exhibits. The central exhibit hall, the Crystal Palace, so named by Punch magazine on November 2, 1850, was an architectural triumph, designed by the great architect Sir Joseph Paxton. The Hall, 1848 ft. long and 408 ft. wide, was built of plates of glass (nearly 300.000) and iron. The fountains had, overall, 11,000 jets. Enormously popular, the Great Exhibition attracted a largely upper class crowd, including Charles Dickens, and evoked many comments and writings, including those of Dickens and Charles Babbage, and satirical commentary, including those of Brother Jonathan (the American magazine) and of Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank. After the exhibition's close, the Crystal Palace was moved to a park outside of London, eventually deteriorating from fire and neglect. First Edition. Edges slightly trimmed. Few pencil annotations. Else, Very Good. London. Duncombe & Moon. N.D. [ca. 1851] Price: $150.00