Great Expectations by Dickens Charles, Signed (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint 1993. Please email for further details Size: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. Lucy Davis. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.

Edward Arnold. 1964. First edition. Small slim 8vo. Hardback with DW. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Some light foxing to endpapers and edges o/w a clean copy in price clipped and slightly worn wrapper that is sunned to spine.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Inscription from owner dates to 1959. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Signed By Previous Owner. HARDBACK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Special Edition. Good green cloth octavo hardcover. Toned spine. Beveled edges. 8vo. 489pp. Followed by Signed limitation page. signed by Ross. No names or markings to text. Illustrated pastedowns and eps. Lacking slipcase. No 1354 of 1500 copies. Classics. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ross, Gordon (illustrator). Signed on last page. Copy #237/1500 Green cloth over board, edges are tanned. Top edge and fore edge is a bit damp stained. Pictorial endpapers. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Limited edition 811/1500. Octavo, xxviii, 488 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair slipcase. Slipcase in green paper, wear to corners, toning to rear panel, damp stains on side panels, peripheral toning. Spine is green with gold print on dark green banner. Boards in green cloth, mitred edges. Light wear to spine caps, toning to spine. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges, spotting to edges, foxing to endpapers, occasional foxing within. Illustrated with 2-color frontispiece and plates. Pamphlet laid in: The Mystery of the Unhappy Ending : a Correspondence / George Macy, Bernard Shaw (unpaged, light age-toning to paper). Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1371962. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: Fair. SIGNED! Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark Limited, 1937. Sm 4to. xxviii,488pp. Illus. by Gordon Ross. Limited edition, #536/1500. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Fair book. Missing slipcase, else Good. (England, orphans, coming of age, revenge, sociual conditions, manners and customs) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Ross, Gordon (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Mild dust darkening to the spine else a clean and bright copy in a Very Good slipcase with some sunning, cracking. Still a solid example though. Limited to 1500 copies with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and signed by Ross. ; Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original gilt-titled cloth, TEG. #840 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Gordon Ross. Spine slightly sunned/scuffed else fine. The original slicpase is sunned, slightly bumped. Publisher's booklet laid in "The Mystery of the Unhappy Ending: a Correspondence." ; quarto; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Limited Editions Club SIGNED by illustrator & Limited #1485/1500. xxviii 489pp + 27 full-pg illustrated plates; 3-color illustrated eps; b/w illustrations; contents clean; top edge gilt; 10" tall; green cover with beveled edge; black title band with gilt lettering on darkened spine; chipped & soiled slipcase. Signed by author. Hardcover.

Hardcover. #1144 of 1500 copies with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and signed by Ross. This is in a beautiful new fine binding of full red tooled leather with raised bands, gilt lettering on spine and gilt on top edge, color portrait of Dickens inset on the front cover, marbled endpapers. Now housed in a professionally made paper covered slipcase. Fine condition in slipcase. Photographs upon request.

Hardcover. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Quarto (7" x 10") bound in green buckram and printed by R. & R. Clark with a previously unpublished 6000-word preface by George Bernard Shaw. This edition is also bibliographically important in that it is the first time Dickens's original "unhappy" ending to this great novel was published. This is copy #473 of 1500 with 55 illustrations by Gordon Ross and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. We need never be ashamed of our tears. Spine slightly darkened with some rubbing, much nicer than usually found. Near Fine in an intact Very Good slipcase.

[Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with small print. INSCRIBED in 'Sketches by Boz' by the owner and editor of The Globe newspaper, George C.H. Armstrong (1836-1907), to his close colleague W.T. Madge, with whom he would go on to establish 'The People' in 1882: 'Presented by the | Proprietor of the "Globe" | to Mr. W.T. Madge | as a token of respect | and acknowledgement of | his valuable services as | publisher, | Geo. C.H. Armstrong, | Jan. 1st 1872 | 110 Strand.' Contemporary red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching grained cloth over boards. All edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. Internally crisp and clean. Bindings toned to spines, with some moderate general wear, and some re-colouring to joints and corners. Very good. Featuring all of Dickens' complete novels, as well as 'Pictures from Italy,' 'American Notes', 'The Uncommercial Traveller,' and 'A Child's History of England'. Featuring additionally Camden's Life of Dickens, and 'Speeches', but not including 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood.'. Ex Libris Sir William Thomas Madge (1845-1927), publisher, and later manager of 'The Globe' newspaper, 1867-1908.

Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition in book form, first issue. Three octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches; 190 x 122 mm). [4], 344; [2], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], 344 pp. Bound without advertisement. With all first issue title-pages and all the internal flaws for the first issue called for by Smith, including the two points in Volume III that Smith notes only appeared in Sadleir's copy ("3" missing in page number on p. 103, and first "i" missing in "inflexible" on p. 193, four lines up). Also impressively, this set has all first issue points called for by Clarendon with the except of just a few. Volume II, page 127, line 4, there is a speck at the end of the line. Also, page 282, lin 3, there is no ink between "seemed" and "hardly." Volume III, page 39, line 5 there is no ink between "you" and "feel"; page 217, line 3, there is no dot in the semi-colon. There are four other points which Clarendon mention, in which they state that the Bodleian copy of Vol III in 1st impression emends the following faults: page 193, line 23, 195 line 2, page 220, line 16 and 192, line 11-12 which reads "himself very/ carefully." These four faults match this present copy as well. According to Clarendon, "these changes suggest a later state of Vol. III within the 1st impression." So to clarify, this present Vol III like the Bodleian copy is a first issue, but a later state withing the first issue. Three volumes uniformly bound by Proudfoot in contemporary half red morocco, over red cloth boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor toning and finger-soiling to a few pages. A few instances of light "dog-ear" creasing to upper corners. Vol. I with a tiny closed tear invisible repaired at bottom margin of page [1], not affecting text. Volume III with a closed tear to the bottom margin of page 296, just touching one letter. Some light rubbing to spines. Four previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers, including the signed bookplate for Jean Hersholt. Overall a very good set. One of only two Dickens novels never issued in monthly partsâ"the typical method since Pickwickâ"Great Expectations is also one of only two of his novels whose first editions weren't illustrated (in both cases, Hard Times is the other). Great Expectations first appeared in England in the pages of Dickens's popular magazine, All the Year Round, beginning on December 1, 1860 (though two American magazines, Harper's Weekly and the American All the Year Round began serializing it slightly earlier, technically jeopardizing Dickens's British copyright). "The rarity of the first issue of Great Expectations has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title-page, coupled with the fact (according to C.P. Johnson, Hints to Collectors, p. 33, and others later) that âthe first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.' Patten, pp. 290-92, states that 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second (1400) copies in all) were purchased by Mudie's Select Library" (Smith I, p. 104, note 5). Each volume contains the bookplate of Jean Hersholt, signed in ink by Hersholt. Hersholt is a Danish-American actor, and humanitarian, famous for starring in roles such as the grandfather alongside Shirley Temple in "Heidi." Because of his humanitarian efforts, the Academy Awards created a Governor's award in his honor entitled "The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" who's purpose is to be "Given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry by promoting human welfare and contributing to rectifying inequities." (Oscars dot org). Recipients include Michael J. Fox, Oprah Winfrey, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Gimbel A146. Smith, Dickens, I, 14. Eckel, pp. 91-93. Clarendon, Cardwell. HBS 69206. $30,000.

First edition, first impression of Dickens' rarest novel. Octavo, three volumes bound in full royal blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Bayntun, all edges gilt. The earliest impression of Dicken's rarest novel. This copy agrees in all points with Margaret Caldwell's extensive analysis of the differing impressions in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations. As in the Lawrence Drizen copy sold in 2019 at Sothebyâs and in the Clarendon edition, the third volume here contains the numeral â3â in the pagination on p. 103, and the initial âiâ in âinflexibleâ on p. 193, which are sometimes missing in copies of the first impression of the third volume, indicating thatÂthe present copy is among the earlier printings of the first impression. Smith comments that âthe rarity of the firstÂissue ofÂGreatÂExpectationsÂhas been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with theÂfirstÂtitle-page, coupled with the fact (according to C.P. Johnson, âHints to Collectorsâ) that âtheÂfirstÂedition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.â Only 1,000 copies of theÂfirstÂissue and 750 copies of the second were printed and that probably most of theÂfirst and more than half of the second (1400 copies in all) were purchased by Mudieâs Select Library. Eckel, pp. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14. In fine condition. An exceptional example of one of Dickens' great masterpieces. Dickens' penultimate novel, Great Expectations, was written in "the afternoon of [his] life and fame" (G.K. Chesterton). The novel contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including its opening, set in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted by escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Upon its release, the novel received near universal acclaim. Although Dickens' contemporary Thomas Carlyle referred to it disparagingly as "that Pip nonsense," he nevertheless reacted to each fresh instalment with "roars of laughter." Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel, as "all of one piece and consistently truthful." During the serial publication, Dickens was pleased with public response to Great Expectations and its sales; when the plot first formed in his mind, he called it "a very fine, new and grotesque idea.".