Tuggss Ramsgate Boz (4 results)

Series title; text block a little browned. Contemp. plain pigskin, pale green boards; a little rubbed & stained. Gimbel B1. Smith USA I, 1. One of the earliest examples of Dickens in book form in the U.S., reprinted from The Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller. Nine other tales appear in this 204-page volume, including G.P.R. James' The Rival Houses, Miss Mitford's Jesse Cliffe, and T.K. Hervey's The Alchymist.

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 12mo, 204 pages; contemporary full calf binding, with brown label on spine, printed in gilt. Only 1,000 copies were printed. Marginal damp-mark at top of some rear leaves; some leaves age-toned.

Together with Other Tales, by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition (being a volume in the "Library of Fiction"), limited to 1,000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale by Dickens followed by nine other tales by other writers. This is the only one of "Boz"'s tales that, having appeared in a British periodical, did not then appear in one of the two book series of SKETCHES BY BOZ (see Smith I, p. 15, note 2). Instead it appeared in the British "Library of Fiction" in April 1836, and was not included in SKETCHES BY BOZ until that title was issued in monthly parts (Nov 1837 through June 1839). In America, Carey Lea & Blanchard published SKETCHES BY BOZ [second series] a month or two after this -- not including "Tuggs's" -- and then combined "Tuggs's" into a reprint of that volume in June of the same year. This is a good-plus copy (general soil and edge-wear notably to the rear joint, label rubbed but still legible, half of rear free endpaper missing). This is acceptable condition for a book that is so scarce in its original binding -- as these 1830s Philadelphia volumes were bound up using extremely delicate, cheap materials. Podeschi (Yale) B1; Wilkins p. 11 (reference to the "Select Library of Fiction"). Housed in a clamshell case with leather label.

1st. ed. 1st American Appearance.(Library of Fiction anthology)Carey,Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.Orgiginal binding-paper label on spine fading-foxing-hinges loose-binding used. used. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.