Dickens Charles Osborne (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Clean pages except for a few penciled notes on the final free endpaper and some toning at edges and endpapers; the full cloth hard cover is noticeably faded at the spine and edges, with some brown spotting in the joints, small fabric tears at spine ends, and a few threads worn through at corners, yet remains overall sound. xii, 205pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Condition is good minus. Damp staining to the upper and outer margins of the front cover and front endpapers, diminished by the half-title page. Limitations page is on the reverse of the front free endpaper. Slight damp stain to the rear cover, two small spots of staining to the rear endpaper. ; Copy #64 0f 500. Brief handwritten note from Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts included, signed [Initials? ] Coutts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Partial dust jacket tipped-in. First Edition (so stated). New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1932. Very Good condition, with partial dust jacket tipped-in on the front pastedown endpaper. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1932. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. Edited by, and with a Biographical Sketch of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, by Charles C. Osborne. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in gold on the spine and front cover. From the partial dust jacket (inner flap tipped-in): "These letters of Charles Dickens, hitherto unpublished, have both a social and literary significance He frankly discusses religious instruction, his distrust of clergymen, slums, overcrowding, and current events such as the death of Byron's daughter, Wellington's funeral, the Indian Mutiny, etc" From the editor's foreword: "On the 17th of May, 1922, a box containing upwards of six hundred letters from Charles Dickens to Miss Burdett-Coutts, afterwards the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, was sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge of New Bond Street, London. The collection as a whole was purchased by Mr. O. R. Barrett, of the United States. During the years 1887-1898, when I had the honour of being the private Secretary of Lady Burdett-Coutts, I made, with her full knowledge and special permission, extracts from some of the letters. It is now a source of the deepest regret that I did not copy all of them. In making the extracts every care was taken to follow the spelling, punctuation, and use of capitals in the originals. It will be seen that Dickens almost invariably used a capital when he wished to emphasize a particular word. He rarely used italics; and the only departures in the following pages from the original letters is the printing in italics of the titles of books and of other publications, and of the dates in words at the beginning of each letter". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good condition/Partial dust jacket tipped-in. 8vo. xii, 205pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

1st edition. xii, 204, [8] pp (including Index). 8vo. "Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships, endowments, and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found (with Charles Dickens) a home for young women who had 'turned to a life of immorality', including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage." [Wiki]. The volume contains many hitherto unpublished letters to Burdett-Coutts, which gives one a good flavor of Dickens rather sympathetic nature for those less fortunate. Uncommon in jacket. VG+ (top edge dusty/offset to eps)/Abt VG (some edgewear/chipping @ hd & tail of spine). Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Dust jacket.

xii, 204, [2] pp (including Index). Frontispiece of Dickens, from the portrait by Samuel Drummond. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8" Burdett-Coutts was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million following the death of her step-grandmother, Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans. Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships, endowments, and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found with Dickens a home for young women who had "turned to a life of immorality", including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage." [Wiki] Osborne was the private Secretary of Lady Burdett-Coutts from 1887 - 1898. with her permission, he copied extracts of letters between Dickens and Burdett-Coutts, here, for the most part, presented to the public for the first time. Modest wear. Slight splay to boards, which have a 2 small stickers to the paste-downs [where a clear cellophane wrapper had previously been affixed]. A VG - VG+ example. Quarter bound with green buckram cloth spine over linen cloth boards. Printed paper title label to spine. TEG. No dust jacket 1st edition, Limited to 500 copies, this # 95. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by Osborne [dated 1937].