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Our Mutual Friend. [Dickens, Charles.] London, May 1864-November 1865. First edition in the original monthly parts: twenty bound in nineteen. Forty wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly chipped and worn and a little soiled, withal a decent set in a new brown cloth box, leather labels. First edition, in the original parts, of Dickens’s last completed novel. Bits and pieces are missing as usual; this set is fairly complete and most early state—list of points on request. Hatton & Cleaver, pages 345–70. ... $975.00

Our Mutual Friend...With Illustrations. [DICKENS, Charles.] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 8vo, original ribbon-grained green cloth, backstrip giltlettered. [13]-350, [2(ads)] pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations in text. backstrip ends worn, front free endpaper lacking, but an attractive copy. Second American Edition (after the very rare four-volume Bradburn edition). Harper also issued this edition in two volumes in wrappers, and in brown cloth. Gimbel A151(seventh copy). Wilkins, p. 32. ... $200.00

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... $1,000.00

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. [Dickens, Charles.] London: 1837. 8vo, xvi, 609, 4 (ads), [1], address. Forty-three plates, including “Veller” title-page. Old half red morocco, gilt top, bookplate of James Burra. Some edge-browning or foxing to some plates, but a pleasant almost untrimmed copy. First edition, bound from the parts, with half-title. First states of most of the points. A very acceptable copy of one the great classics of English literature. Gimbel A15. Grolier, 100 English, 78. Hatton & Cleaver, pages 3–88. Smith I, 3. ... $1,750.00

Pictures From Italy. The Vignette Illustrations on Wood, by Samuel Palmer. [Dickens, Charles. Palmer, Samuel illustrator.] London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Sm. 8vo, (8), 270, (2, ads)pp. With woodcut illustrations throughout. Original cloth, neatly restored. A pleasant copy in original condition. First edition, first issue, with the standard points: a comma after the word “wood” on title page; gothic script title on p.1; comma after "Modena" in line 15, p.93; Twentieth edition of Cricket On the Hart advertisement on p.271. The woodcuts after Palmer are charming. ... $1,000.00

A Christmas Carol. [Dickens, Charles. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator).] London: Heinemann, 1915. Sm. 4to, xi, 147pp. With a color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and 20 black and white illustrations. Original mauve cloth stamped in gilt, backstrip a little dull. First trade edition, intermediate issue with the frontispiece not mounted on dark green paper, but with the publisher and date printed on the verso of the title, and with the figured endpapers. ... $450.00