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The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In.
DICKENS, Charles.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo, original embossed red cloth, backstrip & front cover pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, pale yellow endpapers, in later red cloth slipcase. vii, 176 pp. Frontispiece & vignette title-page engraved after sketches by Daniel Maclise; eleven 'intertextual' plates after Richard Doyle, John Leech, & Clarkson Stanfield. Bookseller's label of Robert Greer, Newry, on front pastedown. backstrip & edges rubbed, with some loss to gilt; hinges cracked; a few interior spots; a very good copy of the scarce first issue. First Edition, first issue (with the publisher's name within the image of the vignette title-page, rather than below it). The second of Dickens's five Christmas books, which he expected to outshine "A Christmas Carol." Well, that didn't quite happen. Eckel, pp. 121-123. Smith, II, 5. (Item ID: 6004)

$1,000.00