Charles Dickens

London, Chapman and Hall, 1842.

First Edition. Original quarter black calf leather bindings. Marbled boards. Two volume set. Hardbacks. 8vo. Prelims unnumbered/ 308 pages, vii/ 306 pages. Speckled page edges. Same owners name inscribed on front end pages. Volume 1 has a newspaper cutting stuck to back end page which is titled Mr Forresters life of Dickens and stuck to front end page is a small newspaper cutting which reads American notes for general circulation. Some light foxing to title pages otherwises a very clean. Some light rubbing to covers and some wear to edges. Slight crack to top of front hinge of Vol. II.

Very Good condition

London. Rupert Hart-Davis. 1959.

First edition. Hardback. Dustjacket. 8vo.. 95 pages. Dustjacket price-clipped. Dark blue cloth covers. Gilt title on spine. Small owners inscription. Slight fading of pages. otherwise a nice clean copy.

Very Good condition

London. Routledge & Kegan. 1962.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo., 244 pages. Spine very slightly skew. Dust jacket rubbed and worn around the edges. Minor wear to book edges.

Very Good + / Near Very Good condition

London. Allen Lane the Penguin Press. 1969.

First English edition. Two volume set in original slip case. Hardbacks. Dustjackets. Large 8vo.. xx/ 1-359 pages. xii/ 360-716 pages. Also in the books is a letter from prof. Harry Stone to Miss Winifred A. Myers (bookseller 1953-1961) + a copy of the return letter. Dust jacket edges rubbed. Some general wear.

Very Good condition

ISBN: 0713901209

London. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. 1963.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 248 pages. Illustrated. Spine very slightly skew. Dust jacket torn to top edge and several very small closed tear. A study of the conditions in factories. mills and mines. and the London Slums of Dickens era.

Near Fine / Very Good condition

Oxford. The Clarendon Press. 1965-1981.

The Pilgrim edition. First editions. Hardbacks. Dust jackets. 4to. Volumes 1-5 only of 12. Some damp and slight water stains. Dust jackets have some closed tears to edges which have been carefully repaired.

Very Good / Good + condition

London. News Chronicle. no date (circa. 1930).

First edition. Paperback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 145 pages. Illustrations by Searle, Lancaster, Joss, Illingworth, Low, Giles, Cummings, Vicky, Horner, Ardizzone. Some discoloration to edges of front and back boards with slight foxing to prelims and page edges. Dust jacket discoloured, small chips top of spine and tear bottom front corner.

Good + / Good condition

The Argonaut Press. 1936.

First edition. Hardback. No dustjacket. 8vo. 223 pages. Black & white illustrations. Green cloth covers slightly dusty at edges with gilt title details on front and spine. Spine rubbed. corners a little bumped. Top page edges gilt. Pages slightly fading.

Very Good condition