Dickensiana from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1935. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, brown cloth with white printed spine label, in publisher's original pale green dust-jacket lettered in black. 182 pages. Illustrated with four full page photographs. First edition, one of a limited edition of 275 copies, with limitation number blacked… Read more about this item

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 696 pages. With illustrations. Select Bibliography, Bibliographic References, Index. Second Printing. Still the most eminently scholarly biography on 'Boz' and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold, with gilt portrait of Dickens on spine. 484 pages, with 6 page article "The Dickens Controversy" and publisher's catalog appended. First edition One of the many posthumous biographies that were published the year of Dickens' death. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and a facsimile… Read more about this item

Boston: CDRC Publication, 1962. Original pamphlet, bound in white printed wrappers with image of Dickens on front cover. 64 pages. A symposium held at the 56th Annual Conference of the Dickens Fellowship. Includes Dickens scholars George H. Ford, Edgar Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, Sylvere Monod, and moderator Noel Charles Peyrouton. One of 2,500 numbered copies, this being… Read more about this item

Londion: T.N. Fouls, 1913. Hardcover, bound in the original light blue cloth with back-strip faded as per usual for this title. 347 pages. Index. Illustrated with 30 tipped in monochrome plates depicting various personalities whom Dickens knew and drew upon for inspiration in creating his literary characters, all with tissue guards intact. Second printing. No previous… Read more about this item

Londion: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Hardcover, burgundy cloth lettered and decorated in gold, no dust-jacket. 176 pages. Catalog of the authors works appended. First edition. A prolific writer, Canning produced many works on British history, biography and literature. Born August 24, 1832, Canning was acquainted with personally with Dickens, having met him at Gadshill and… Read more about this item

New York: Appleton, 1902. Hardcover, blue cloth. 319 pages. Six page publisher's catalog appended. Early printing, copyright 1900. Blind-stamp of previous owner on upper front free end-paper. Lower corner page 279/280 damaged, but complete. Moderate rubbing to extremities of cloth. A clean, square, tightly bound and unmarked copy, in protective clear acetate… Read more about this item

New York: Haskell House Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1972. Hardcover, maroon cloth in clear acetate wraps. 254 pages. Index. Reprint edition. Originally published in 1919. Small stamp and reference number inside rear cover from the Mary Washington College Library and previous owner's blind-stamp on front end-paper. No other marks. A very clean, square, fresh… Read more about this item

New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1902. Hardcover, small quarto bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in white, with large pictorial pastedown on front cover. 236 pages. Deckle edged. Illustrated with 11 full page monochrome plates by George Alfred Williams. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Several leaves roughly… Read more about this item

New York: Crescent Books ;, 1989. Hardcover in dust-jacket, protected by Brodart cover. 375 pages. First printing thus by this publisher of the title first published in 1928. A classic reference of Dickens characters and the works they appeared in, arranged alphabetically. Contains over 1.550 entries. No previous ownership marks. Marginal toning to… Read more about this item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1940. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth. 200pp., A scarce and uncommon reference. Includes short bibliography at rear. The 1976 reprint of this title has long been out of print. Book plate of Noel Charles Peyrouton, noted Dickens scholar affixed to front free endpaper. No other markings. A clean, square… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 1911. Hardcover, blue cloth sans dust-jacket. 90pp., Two illustrations. An early contribution to the question of proposing an ending to Dickens' last unfinished work. Pasted to endpapers and blank prelims are letters written to the Editor of the Times [London] in 1919 concerning the true identity of Datchery. The first of these is… Read more about this item

Londion: The New Age Press, 1908. Hardcover, cloth lettered in gold. 316 pages. 4 page publisher's catalog appended at rear. First edition. Two bookplates present, one being that of noted Dickens scholar Noel Charles Peyrouton. Moderate wear to head of back-strip and spine age darkened, albeit gold lettering unaffected. Small ring visible on front… Read more about this item

Boston: Charles Dickens Reference Center, 1962. Full tan calg, with original white wrappers bound in. 64pp., First edition, limited to 2550 copies, this being an out-of-series copy, un-numbered. A transcript of the symposium held by George H. Ford, J. Hillis Miller, Edgar Johnson, Sylvere Monod, with Noel C. Peyrouton as moderator, at the 56th… Read more about this item

Londion: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1941. Hardcover, ecru cloth, no dust-jacket. 240 pages Index. Illustrated with drawings by Oscar Ogg and photographs. First edition. From the library of noted Dickens scholar Noel Charles Peyrouton, with his illustrated bookplate on front free end-paper, now detached and laid in loose. Slight bow to front board,… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 172 pages. Index. First edition. Small retail price sticker affixed to inner dust-jacket flap. A collection of scholarly essays on various people and themes in English Literature, concluding with two on Charles Dickens. Published posthumously, the contents emanate from articles written or delivered during Prof Butt's… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Charles Dickens Reference Center, Lesley College, 1962. Original white wraps. 64pp., First edition, limited to 2550 copies, this being number 1165. A transcript of the symposium held by George H. Ford, J. Hillis Miller, Edgar Johnson, Sylvere Monod, and Peyrouton at the 56th Annual Conference of the Dickens Fellowship. No previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Large oblong folio, red cloth in dust-jacket. 393pp., first edition. Edited with an introduction and notes by Harry Stone. A compilation of all extant working papers and notes, produced by Dickens in the process of the serial writing of… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1872. Hardcover, dark green cloth with spine lettered in gold and top edge gilt. 573pp., Index. No name, no book-plate, etc. Small hole to cloth at front gutter. Very good. Podeschi H371.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1911. Hardcover, variant blue cloth lettered in gold with image of ship, boy and girl on front board, stamped in gold, no priority established [also issued in brown/olive cloth]. 148 pages. All edges gilt. Introduction by Percy Fitzgerald. Containing tales re-told by Dickens granddaughter and others. 12 inserted chromolithographed plates, and… Read more about this item