The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845.
8vo, (viii), 175 pp. Attractively rebound in half maroon morocco, all edges gilt, portions of the original cloth preserved in endpapers. Trivial rubbing to binding, contents clean, a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of William Elliot Baillie and stamp of the Dickens Centenary Testimonial on front endpapers.
§ First edition, first state of the vignette title page and with the internal flaws noted by Smith II, 5. Complete with the advertisement leaf for A Christmas Carol. The second of Dickens' Christmas books and another tale of spirit-induced moral reformation, which some reviewers found almost too radical in its sympathy for the poor and unfortunate. Item #126001
Price: $500.00