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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. T. Sinclair (illustrator). The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In., First U.S. Edition,1845, gilt decorated original publishers cloth-covered boards and spine (6 ½ x 4 1/4 x ½) Spine sunned, board edges toned. Corners bumped, spine ends rubbed. Pages variably toned except for the illustrations which are not. Some cracking along inside front paste down, hinge strong. Some tiny dark spots to boards. Text block intact, binding tight. Bookplate on inside front cover reads: Gardiner G. Hubbard. Hubbard (1822-1897) was a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; a founder and the first president of the Bell Telephone Company which later evolved into AT&T, at times the world's largest telephone company; a founder of the journal Science; and an advocate of oral speech education for the deaf. One of his daughters, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, married Alexander Graham Bell.