Set of Dickens Novels (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. Set of 3; A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, & Oliver Twist. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Some minor creasing to covers and spines. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. H. K. Browne et al (illustrator). Octavos, hardcovers, fine in about fine white pictorial dj. Book Club edition; Matching set of 7. All clean, unmarked, giftable. Includes: DAVID COPPERFIELD, BLEAK HOUSE, PICKWICK PAPERS, OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, OLIVER TWIST, and A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Introductions by Andrew Lang with original illustrations. Some of these sell for more than 50 each. Here you get them all for 200 with one shipping cost of 4.50. A wonderful set of books for some lucky person!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. One of the largest re-print publishers of the 1940's and 1950's was Walter J. Black, Inc. If you were enrolled to be a subscriber of, "The Classics Club," you could receive three free books and thereafter get a "book for a buck." The titles in the series ranged from books from familiar literary names, such as Walt Whitman, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift and Zane Gray to classics from the ancient Greeks. This is a set of six famous titles from Charles Dickens. They include: - Great Expectations - Tale of Two Cities - Adventures of Oliver Twist - Hard Times - Mystery of Edwin Drood and - A Christmas Carol This are the "Deluxe Editions," with gilt-stamped titles and green tinted top page-ends. In addition to great reading, they will look great on your bookshelf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Seymour and "Phiz" (illustrator). Thirteen volume set, 12 novels and Volume XIII is Life of Dickens by F.C. Kitton. "The London Edition". Identically bound in dark blue cloth with gilt title and decoration on the spines, clean and bright, just some damage to the spine head of Volume VI (Little Dorrit). Hinges and text blocks firm, no inscriptions or book plates. Closed page edges have some light spots, some of which are showing on the inside outer edge of the pages. Each volume has a coloured frontispiece and further illustrations throughout, some in colour by Seymour and Phizz, also by Sibson and Hablot K. Browne. Undated, but potentially circa 1860. The titles are : Pickwick Papers; Nicholas Nickleby; Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Little Dorrit; Bleak House; Oliver Twist and Christmas Books; Old Curiosity Shop and Short Stories; Barnaby Rudge; Hard Times & Sketches; A Tale of Two Cities and lastly Life of Dickens. A nice good looking set of books. May incur additional postage charges overseas.

Cloth, 4to, xvi,120 plates. Provides full bibliographic descriptions for the first publication in book form of : Sketches by Boz; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; Master Humphrey's Clock; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Boards a trifle scuffed and slightly faded, contents Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Seymour, R.; Buss, R. W.; "Phiz" (illustrator). Original gilt lettered green cloth. With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour, R. W. Buss and "Phiz" after the original engravings plus reproductions of parts of the manuscript. Volume 1 no longer has a dust jacket and its rear board is noticeably stained and spotted. Light bumping to head and foot of spines, lower edge of rear board of volume 2 (cloth cover is slightly split), leading corners and lower inside corner of vol. 2. Minimal rubbing to the extremities, and the spines remain very tight indeed. Volume 2's blue dust jacket is grubby and water damaged with significant wear and chipping and tears along the edges. Age spotting to page block, endpapers and plates. All of the pages are intact. Age stain on endpapers. Text remains clear, and binding is tight throughout. Pages are slightly tanned. Page edges are roughly cut. Many sections in Vol 2 are uncut. Some light foxing to page edges. Overall in pretty good shape. T. Used.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Very Good in boards. Light foxing along first few front/rear end pages. Light bumping at spnie crown/heel. London Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charles Dickens. American set of seven Dickens novels in wrappers dated 1873. Publisher: D. Appleton, New York. Wrappers are in very good condition. Contents clean, name of Geoge Kraus stamped on each title-page. 5 x 7 ½ inches. Ads in the back of each and a price of 35? on each spine. Titles include: Sketches by Boz; Bleak House; Our Mutual Friend; The Uncommercial Traveller (Pictures from Italy); Barnaby Rudge; Martin Chuzzlewit; and Dombey and Son. A unique Dickens offering. Inventory #23-218. Price: $400.

Pamphlet. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Intended as a facsimile edition of the original publication, this edition was issued in 20 parts each bound in blue wrappers. Also included are the original mailing envelopes for each part(which someone has written "valuable do not destroy!" on). Includes the illustrations by Robert Seymour. Complete. Very well preserved set with only some very mild toning or edgewear to the wrappers. The mailing envelopes have some tears and wear.

Leatherbound. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

to illustrate 'A Frog he would a-wooing go', his meeting a Rat on the way and their welcome by Mrs Mouse at Mousey Hall, who offers to sing, the dispersal of the party by a Cat and two Kittens, and Mr Frog's sad end on the way home, each approximately 3¼" x 4½" with a line of verse above and below, in margins 5¾" x 5¾" plus a fringe of ¾ of an inch all round, loose between early numbered sheets of paper with a modern card noting that they are from among his family items, no place, no date, circa a few occasional brown spots nearly all in blank margin, two touching a line of verse which is still perfectly legible, the third drawing is very slightly smudged.