Charles Dickens Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Richard Scollins (Signed) (illustrator). Limited Edition #1900 of 1950 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cullen, Walter (illustrator). 72pp. Full page colour illustrations by Walter Cullen. Numbered, limited edition, this copy being no. 1520, signed by Anthony Matthews, author of the sequel to The Tuggs at Ramsgate, also contained in this volume. Illustrated card covers. Boards mildly bowed, but sharp and bright. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Any doubt that Ramsgate is a Dickens country will be quickly dispelled by reading this tale. While probably written by Dickens while he was at the nearby Broadstairs, Dickens clearly visited Ramsgate for his inspiration. Large format, oblong, 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. First Edward Ardizzone illustrated edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon decorated grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, symmetrical brick red design to the front and rear boards, top edge dyed pink. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains [xx], 423 pp with 16 full-page single tone colour plates and monochrome chapter headers. Fine condition book, in Very Good slip case with slight sun fading to the open fronted edges. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone | March 1973.' ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cloth printed in pastel colours with Dickens characters. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Some entries by previous owner, some Ardizzone related. Each three days on double page one with extracts from Dickens books opposite, Ardizzone illustrations on monthly headings as well as the boards. Rubbing of the cloth along the bottom edges. Good condition book in Poor condition torn dust wrapper with significant losses. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the second front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone | Christmas 1970' signed for Aingelda (Edward Ardizzone's daughter-in-law) Ardizzone.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Tale of two cities signed Charles Dickens. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL #Y 6420 , PBO, April 1975, 1ST PRINTING , EARLY Issue,Abridged Edition , First Movie edition, 3RD PRINTING. Paperback original.,VG- with crease to back Cvr, Paperback movie tie-in ,SIGNED by actor ANTHONY NEWLEY (who starred as Daniel Quilp) and actor DAVID HEMMINGS (who starred as Richard Swiveller) Paperback tie-in with the 1975 British musical film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Anthony Newley, David Hemmings and Jill Bennett; based on the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, under which name it was also released. From the library of famed Hollywood studio publicist (and former Herald Examiner journalist) Art Ronnie, with his bookplate to the front flyleaf. Bound in the paper pictorial wrappers. The wrappers are lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with a light vertical crease to the rear wrap. ,and SIGNED BY actor DAVID HEMMINGS (who starred as Richard Swiveller) STUDIO PUBLICIST COPY, tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who has not attained the age of fourteen. Being an orphan, Nell lives with her grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his antique shop of Odds & Ends in London, which the book its title. Her Grandfather borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked Dwarf moneylender. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Raymond Houlihan (illustrator). Limited Edition. A most attractive edition by this fine publisher, with the original prospectus included. Number 1260 of only 2000 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Slipcase has an attractive wrap around paper label fixed on the outside. The book is bound in calf skin leather on the spine with an indented area for the handsome black and gold title label, which is made of skiver leather and is inset. The leather wraps around to the cover boards, which have twelve drawings on the front and back. Issued without a jacket, this is in great if not perfect condition; the spine leather is a little scuffed. Attractive full page colour illustrations, and chapter vignettes, by Raymond F. Houlihan, who has signed this copy on the limitation page at the back of the book. This is copy number 1260 of 2000 subscription only copies. A most desirable issue from this wonderful small American press, where books were produced to a standard, not down to a price. Historically this is a wonderful example of reportage from the great Charles Dickens. 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Easton Press edition with full leather binding, with raised cords, silk endpapers, bookmark ribbon, etc. Color pastedown on the front cover with one of Mark Summer's illustrations. No date on the title page or copyright page, but the inserted Authentication card is dated 2018. Dated 2018 on the colophon at the rear, as well. This is the Collector's Edition, signed my Mark Summers on the special limitation page bound before the title page. Very good condition (appears unread). 129 pages. Page edges gilt. Color illustrations throughout. This is an oversized book so extra shipping will be required for international or priority shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather. No Jacket. Full-Leather. No Jacket. HB NODJ ISSUED, No Date, Early Edition 1840s ?, Edges pages beautifully Marblelized, NF+/NF+, AS-IS, NODJ, Brown Tooled Leather with spine Lables & Gold Gilt decorations, Cover light rub, Scuff , Wear, Hinge ever so slightly Starting, tiny Tears Along Spine, Interior Nice, Tight Clean some Fox , Wear, 625 pages with Illustration on Last Page of Book,NODJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Illustrator. HB NODJ ISSUED, 1st limited edition, 1931, #878/1,500 copies, Decorated Beige Red slipcase light wear some Foxing, Oversized Beige decorated cloth with Gold Gilt, Cover verylight Fox, Fine, NO DUSTJACKET, Slipcase VG-. Signed by Illustrator(s).

[5], v, 141, [1] pp. Binder's blanks at front & rear. Frontis of Menken. Facsimile of Dickens' "letter", which is actually comprised of portions from 2 letters Dickens sent Menken [cf. LETTERS, v. 11]. Cuts as head- tailpieces. Sq 12mo. 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" Dickens knew Menken through her 1864 performances at Astley's, during which time she was accepted by the London Bohemian crowd, holding 'literary salons' at her suite at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Her aspirations toward literature resulted in this modest volume of poetry, which she decicated to "Charles Dickens", a gesture the Inimitable accepted with 'great pleasure'. This particular copy comes from a prominent Detroit businessman's collection, gathered in the 1920s, and only now, 100 years later, coming onto the market. Spine sunned to a mellow golden tan. A handsome VG+ copy. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG. Original publisher's green cloth binding bound-in at rear 1st edition thus (Gimbel B295), i.e., with the lithographic plate reproducing Dicken's letter. This copy SIGNED by Dickens, in blue ink, on the original ffep, "Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens [flourish]". We posit it was signed by Dickens during his 1868 tour of America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. London. Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. MDCCCXXXVII [1837] XIV + 609 pages. Bound in full leather (dark red) with raised cords on the spine, by Riviere and Son. Gold borders on the boards.Gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Page edges heavily gilt. Some weakness to the leather at the hinges requires careful handling, but both boards remain entirely attached (but someday this will be the weakness). Marbled endpapers. Binding good and tight. Text block clean and tight and square. Engraved title page dated 1837 detached but present in the correct location. Printed title page also dated 1837. 41 engraved plates, extra illustrated with 22 more plates. All First-Issue Points present except signature E is present on page 25. This is a famously complicated first edition to identify. This copy has a note from a previous bookseller (likely close to 100 years ago), The Halle Bros. Co, detailing 42 textual variants, typos, etc. This copy sold by Halle Bros in the last century and again through Hindman Auctions in 2021. Original handwritten letter from Dickens, with envelope. The envelope is taped to the blank side of the front endpaper. It is addressed in Dickens hand and postmarked Feb 1870, with stamp. The original letter is a folded sheet of stationery with Dickens Gads Hill Place address printed on it. Power blue paper, folded in thirds. 27 lines in Dickens hand, plus bold signature and dates, etc. There are 3 strips of tape, yellowed, at the top and bottom of both the envelope and stationery page. 5 Hyde Park Place Saturday Night, February 1870 Dear Miss Huffam, I was more amazed than displeased, I beg to assure you, by finding that your friends has used my name without my knowledge. I received a letter from [?] Hurt and Rockwell of Bond Street, in- forming me that they had had the pleasure of voting for my case. I [ ? ] replied, that could not be, for I had no case. They then gave me your name. Not having the faintest idea that you were a candidate, I supposed them where fuller [?] [?] [?] touching your elder sister; and said so. Upon which they explained in detail. I was very careful to tell [next page] them immediately that there could be no question of the merits of your case, and that I knew it was a meritorious one. I mentioned this in a general way to my sister, but would on no account have done so with the least intention of making you unhappy. Faithfully yours Charles Dickens Miss Loretta Huffam Charles Dickens middle name was Huffam, so it seems likely that there is a family connection here. A gorgeous copy of Dickens first novel, with signed letter. Please email with questions or to request photos. Extra shipping will be required to pack it securely and ship safely by expedited method. [located in bottom right of vault]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Writings of Charles Dickens Large-Paper Edition With critical and bibliographical introductions and notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and others. Illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech and others. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Riverside Press. 1894. A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 271. In Thirty-Two volumes Hardcover. Bound in handsome red leather (crushed levant) with raised cords, gold lettering and decorations. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Leather corners. Top edge gilt. About 400 page per volume. Many volumes have 3 plates at the front (higher numbers have only two), one of which is beautifully hand colored. Illustrated throughout with the original illustrations, with tissue guards. The set is: The Pickwick Papers (2 volumes); Sketches by Boz; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby (2 volumes); Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge (2 volumes); Martin Chuzzlewit (2 volumes); Dombey and Son (2 volumes); David Copperfield (2 volumes); Bleak House (2 volumes); Little Dorrit (2 volumes); A Tale of Two Cities; Our Mutual Friend (2 volumes); Christmas Books (2 volumes); Hard Times; Uncommercial Traveller; Plays, Poems, Miscellanies; A Child's History of England; Life, Letters, Speeched (2 volumes); The Dickens Dictionary. 2 volumes have small chips (nickel sized) on the crown of the spine where a piece of the leather is missing, and 4 others are cracked there, and the leather needs repair. 2 volumes have front cover detached (Volume 1 & the Christmas Books volume). Both covers are present. No other significant damage, but there is some wear to hinges and darkening to the leather corners throughout. A handsome set on 2 full shelves, notwithstanding the small chips mentioned above. Laid in at the front of the first volume, there is a check filled and signed by Dickens. Drawn on the bank of Messers Coutts & Compy. to 'messrs Dawson, Newman & Co.' in the amount of Thirty one pounds, six shillings and fourpence. Signed by Dickens and vigorously underlined, as was his style. Dated 'Second February, 1866.' The check is on blue paper, embossed with a 'One Penny' crowned stamp. It is struck through with blue ink. Mounted edgeways in white paper such that both sides are visible. Measures 7.5 x 3.75 inches. Endpaper and three blanks are detached on this volume. The page with the check is the first page attached. All the missing pages and board are here, however. Please email with questions or to request photos. Shipping will be more than the default settings, because it's 32 volumes. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. No Jacket. HBNO DJ Issued, Marblelized boards with tooled red LEATHER corners & Spine, NF+/NF-, AS-IS,NODJ, Gold gilt decorations & lettering spine, 1837 on half title & title page, 1st edition, Early printing, with S. Veller on page 342, line 5, page 260 line 29 reads holding, has his friends page 400 line 21, has notation on bottom pg.9, Cover some rub, wear Scuff primarily Extremities edges, Interior nice, tight clean with light FoX, chips to edges of some pages,609 pages, Top edges pages Gold Gilt, SIGNED by EUGENE FIELD.