Dickens Charles Text By (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.06x6.06x0.31 inches. In Stock.

Compact Disc. Condition: Brand New. 4 pages. 5.59x4.72x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book explores how European readers, translators, and critics interpreted and adapted Dickens across generations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nd. c.1910. First Canadian edition. Original decorated cloth with gilt pictorial designs with pickwick sitting at his desk and pictorial spines. Very light rubbing to grey cloth spines and some very light bumping to top and bottom of spines and corners. Generally a very bright attractive set of this classic work with fine coloured plates by the important artist Cecil Aldin. Volume one has 450pp & volume two has 457pp. Illustrated with full page colour plates & black & white text illustrations by Cecil Aldin. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, this set being number 142 of 150 copies. Two small, but thick quarto volumes in original green cloth binding with paper spine labels. Plays included are The Strange Gentleman, The Village Coquettes, and Is She His Wife? or Something Singular, along with a number of poems and several miscellaneous items in prose. At the back of Vol. II is a bibliography of Dickens-related material through the year 1880. Condition: both volumes show some wear and soiling; both spine labels are nicked, soiled & worn; inner hinges of Vol II are starting. Scattered foxing through both volumes; else a very good set with most pages uncut. Pages: Vol. I: 407; Vol. II: vi, 420.…

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2"). xiv, [2], 624pp. Contemporary 3/4 burgundy calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled paper edges. Engraved frontispiece and additional title. Originally serialized between 1842 and 1844, Charles Dickens' "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" is considered the last of his picaresque novels. Although Dickens thought it to be his best work, it turned out to be one of his least successful novels. Like nearly all of Charles Dickens' novels, "Martin Chuzzlewit" was released to the public in monthly instalments. Early sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed the author to portray the United States (which he had visited in 1842) satirically as a near wilderness with pockets of civilization filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. The main theme of the novel, according to a preface by Dickens, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens' great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with forty steel-engravings including frontispiece and title-page vignette by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." First edition in book form, with the following first state points: Engraved title leaf with "100£" on the sign-post, later corrected to £100; 13-line Errata (page xv), later expanded to 14 lines. For more information, see: Chapter I, page 7 of Walter E. Smith's "Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: A Bibliographical Catalogue of His Writings in Book Form in England with Facsimiles of the Bindings and Title Pages"). Binding rubbed along edges. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on inside of front cover (Boyd, Alexander), with the motto: "Fidem serva." Heavy foxing to frontispiece and engraved title. Very minor and sporadic light foxing to text pages. The plates have light to moderate foxing which is mainly confined to the blank margins. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in good to very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1865 on Title Pg, & 1861 ON COPYRIGHT PG. , VG/GOOD, AS-IS, NO JACKET ,CLEAR TAPE TO REINFORDCE OUTSIDE SPINE BK & BACK INSIDE ENDPAPERS, 540pp; b/w illustrations; foxing / faint stains on a few pages, previous owner name on front ep; marbled edges; binding shaken; 7.25 tall; crack to spine with gilt lettering; chipping to edges & tears to gutters of black leather back strip; heavy wear to edges of black cover with boards showingFEW DOG EARED PG, Alphabetical List of writers in back, A Dream & its Explanation, Elocution, ANCIENT HISTORYHERPETOLOGY OR REPTILES, Ichthyology or Fishes, Chemistry of a Candle, ILLUSTRATED IN B/W, Health of Brain, Ruins of Coliseum in Rome, Chemistry of Cataracts, Vision of Moses, , ETC.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1863 on Title Pg, & 1861 ON COPYRIGHT PG, VG/VG-, AS-IS, NO JACKET, Spine has been replaced with new leather . Measures approximately 7.5 x 5-inches; , BLACK CLOTH with few stains edge wear , some Interior fox & stainsa very early, rare, illustrated appearance of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," marked by Purple sewn in ribbon bkmark in addition to excepts from Dickens, Darwin, Coleridge, Emerson, and myriad others. It also includes an early appearance of Poe's classic, "The Bells". The book was published by Harper and Brothers, New York, in their "Harper's School and Family Series" as a "reader", which is designed to round out a student's exposure to a variety of different types of prose. Stained endpages have new acid-free hinges. Added placeholding ribbon. Light foxing throughout. A few dog-ears and light stains. Binding is very tight and square. Text and illustrations are very bright and crisp. 539 pages, indexed. Ichthyology or Fishes, Chemistry of a Candle, ILLUSTRATED IN B/W, Health of Brain, Ruins of Coliseum in Rome, Chemistry of Cataracts, Vision of Moses, , ETC.…