Condizione: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket No. 32 - Kings Treasuries of Literature series. Owner's name on endpage. (Ebenezer Scrooge).
Editore: London : Harrap, 1930
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx, 687 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color plates ; 24 cm. Genres: Fiction. Illustrated text. 3 Kg.
Editore: London : Harrap, 1930
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Prima edizione
EUR 45,00
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx, 687 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color plates ; 24 cm. Genres: Fiction. Illustrated text. 1 Kg.
Editore: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1930
Da: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Three Quarters Leather. Condizione: Very Good binding. Large 8vo. three quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth; xx, 687 pages, with 16 full page color plates by Brock; there is a previous owner gift inscription on the first blank leaf.~~There is minor wear to the morocco at the bottom of the spine as well as to the corners; a rubbed spot is on the upper board, near the top corner; overall, a handsome copy. Very Good binding.
Editore: London: J .M. Dent & Co., 1905, 1905
Da: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock DICKENS, Charles. BROCK, C.E., illustrator. Christmas Books. With Illustrations by C.E. Brock. London: J.M. Dent, 1905-1909. Five small octavo volumes (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 178 x 114 mm.). With a total of forty color plates and forty-eight illustrations in the text by Charles Edmund Brock. Full vellum, covers and spine elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Boards slightly splayed, otherwise a fine set. Bookplate of Ernest Gould Williams on front paste-down of first volume. The titles: A Christmas Carol The Haunted Man The Battle of Life The Cricket on the Hearth The Chimes Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843, Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project, seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy . in order to strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes. He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s, and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s. C[harles]. E[dmund]. Brock (1870-1938) was a widely published English line artist and book illustrator who earned his first book commission at age twenty. He became a very successful illustrator, best known for his line work, initially in the tradition of Hugh Thomson, but he was also a skilled colorist. Brock's work varied with the sort of story he was illustrating, some of it refined and described as "sensitive to the delicate, teacup-and-saucer primness and feminine outlook of the early Victorian novelists," while other work was "appreciative of the healthy, boisterous, thoroughly English characters," i.e. soldiers, rustics, and "horsey types." Other illustrations were grotesqueries drawn to amuse children looking at or reading storybooks.