Search Results: a tale of two cities our by charles dickens

BBC Physical Audio, 2018. Audio CD. New. unabridged edition. 5.50x5.25x1.50 inches.

New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1876. Reprint. Hardcover. Good to Very Good. 14 vol. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 16-766, [2], [1]-5 (pages of publisher's advertisements, [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [5], 6-808, [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3]; [7], viii, [1], 10-821, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [7], 8-833, [1], [1], 2-4, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [7], 8-832, [1]-4, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [5], 6-840, [2]; 8 - [7], 8-800, [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements, [2]; [5], 6-789, [2], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [7], 8-800 [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-824, [1], 2-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [5], 6-799, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-796, [1]-4, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3]; [9], 10-823, [1], [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [5], 6-803, [3]; 20 - [5], 6-724, [1]-4, [3]… Read More

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier. , Not dated, circa 1900.. Very good examples of Dickens’ works. Occasional marks to boards. Some copies with some fraying to spine headcaps, board hinges cracked. Interiors are clean and crisp. . Binding: Full teal patterned buckram boards. Pattern on board corners and spine. Blind rules on upper and lower. Spine with gilt lettering, blind rolls, and blind floral motifs. All edges speckled teal. , Notes: Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) was a renown English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative… Read More

Kelmscott Society, New York, 1900. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Champan & Hall, 1897. The Gadshill edition. Hardcover. Very good+. 38 volume set! Red cloth boards with gilt stamped titles, octavos, various paginations, illustrated in b&w. Books show some toning to some spines, wear to spines that includes some small tears to ends and small scuff to cloth on one volume (Little Dorrit I), faint soil and rubbing, bindings tight, a few pencil signatures to front endpapers, otherwise texts clean and unmarked with gentle toning throughout, top edges gilt with mild dust. THIS LARGE, HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES.

, between 240-437 pages to each volume illustrated frontispieces and illustrations throughout, very heavy set that may require extra shipping overseas

New York: Hurst & Co., 122 Nassau St., [1904]. Fifteen vols. Approx. 14,000 pp. Frntsps. each vol., numerous plates and illusts. Uniformly bound in publisher’s three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, elaborately gilt decorated spines, brown & blk & gilt morocco spine labels, marbled fore-edges (mnr rubbng, some mnr soilng to the foot of spines, toned paper as usual for Hurst), still an attractive and very nice set. First Hurst edition of Charles Dickens’ works, with illustrations. Of particular interest is the publisher’s calf binding which was quite unusual for Hurst & Company.

London: Chapman and Hall, [c.1890].. Nineteen volumes. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco over green cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, the other compartments with a gilt flower device, marbled endpapers. Numerous plates and illustrations in the text throughout by the likes of Cruikshank, Phiz etc., as per earlier editions. Uneven fading and marking to spines plus some general rubbing. An undated edition, likely stereotyped from previous editions, the bindings would appear to be from the either the 1880s and 1890s. Forster's Life and Pierce's Dictionary were both first published in 1872.