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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. This volume presents 772 letters, 264 of them published here for the first time and many others not until now collected. The years covered are 1842 and 1843; and the central subject is inevitably Dickens in relation to America.JanuarytoJune 1842 covers his first visit there, the adulation which greeted him, the alteration in his feeling for the country and the country's for him (much use is made, in the annotation, of American newspaper comment). The results are seen in American Notes and the American chapters of Martin Chuzlewit. Later interests are reflected in A Christmas Carol, published at the end of 1843. In the autumn, hard pressed for money, he decides to remove himself and family to Italy in 1844. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxv, 692 pages, some illustration including a map of Dickens' American travels. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book in a near fine price clipped dustwrapper.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. This volume presents 706 letters (250 of them unpublished) for the years 1840 and 1841, which saw the publication of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge within the framework of Master Humphrey's Clock. The letters mark the progress of his work, and the manuscripts of the two novels have been drawn on to clarify his many references to them. Before the volume ends Dickens had been recognized by many as a master of pathos, had been lionised in Edinburgh, and could dictate terms to his publishers. His circle of close friends had widened to include Macready, Macuse, Landor and Lord Jeffrey. The Volume ends on the eve of his departure for America. Thanks to his later holocausts oniy a few scattered letters to Dickens himself have survived-except for the year 1841. But 125 letters of that year he deposited with his solicitor on leaving England, and then forgot. This volume draws extensively on these letters in its notes. The impact he made on his friends is revealed, and simultaneously they emerge as people in their own right. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xx, 547 pages, Illustrated with a frontispiece plus facsimiles of letters and a map of Dickens' Highland tour. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Very good book in a very good price clipped dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear paperlined removable protective jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Thick 8vo(9"tall)red cloth. First 5 volumes of a 12 volume set. All Very Good with Very Good dust jackets with two repaired tears to dust jacket of Volume 1. VOLUME 1, 4 AND 5 HAVE AN INSCRIPTION BY KATHLEEN TILLOTSON ONE OF THE EDITORS. RARE THUS. **NOTE: A very large and very heavy set that will require extra packing and postage. NOT AVAILABLE FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS DUE TO POSTAGE COST.**. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thid final volume presents 1151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's Ainerican tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from 'American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more British reading tours belore his collapse at Preston on f2 April 1869. In early january 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by LukeFildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxvi, 813 pages, Frontispiece illustration. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book in a near fine dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear paperlined removable protective jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprinted with Corrections. This volume presents 1,248 letters, 480 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1847 to 1849. They are years of success and stability. Dickens completes the serial publication of Dombey and Son in April 1848 and begins David Copperfield in May 1849. Other publications are his fifth and last Christmas book, The Haunted Man, and numerous articles for the Examiner. In March 1847 the first number of the Cheap Edition of his works is published; and by the autumn of 1849 plans for his weekly journal, Household Words, are well advanced. Amateur theatricals and the planning of Miss Coutts's Home for Homeless Women' (Urania Cottage), take up his remaining energies. Holidays are spent at Broadstairs and in the Isle of Wight. The volume includes his letters to Forster about making use of his autobiography' in David Copperfield. Appendixes include an unpublished draft prospectus, prepared by Dickens, for a self-insurance scheme for writers and artists that grew into the Guild of Literature and Art, and a list of his Examiner articles during this period, many of them newly attributed. Hardcover, red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxi, 758 pages, frontispiece plus ine further illustration. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Very good book with some spots to the top edge in a very good dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear removable protective jacket.Included is an interesting handwritten signed letter on "Letters of Charles Dickens - Pilgrim Edition" headed notepaper from editor Kathleen Tillotson dated 1989 to a Mr Harries (Peter Harries of Boz books?) who has offered a hitherto unpublished letter by Charles Dickens for inclusion in the Pilgrim edition, the letter contains her response and comments on the letter.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. This eighth volume presents about ,1500 letters, many of them unpublished, from the years 1856 to 1858. This period includes several major changes in Dickens's public and private life, notably in 1858 when he separates from his wife and starts a new career of paid readings from his works But throughout 856 and part of 1857, his main preoccupation is the writing of his monthly serial Little Dorrit; for much of 1856 he continues to reside happily in France with his family, both in Boulogne and Paris, giving racy accounts of its theatres and his meetings with writers and artists. At his own amateur theatricals in 1857, his great success in Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep has lasting consequences; at the close of his work for the Douglas Jerrold Fund, the play is repeated with professional actresses, including three members ofthe Ternan family. Later rumours of his relations with a young actress (Ellen Ternan) provoke him to an ill-advised public statement which leads to a breach with his publishers and with one of his closest friends, Mark Lemon. Finally, he embarks on the first of many strenuous reading tours, giving 8 readings in over 40 towns, all within three months. His usual activities are not neglected: he makes many speeches for good causes, and continues to edit Household Words (and its successor All the rear Round), with help from his friend and assistant editor Wills. Throughout, there is new material, both in the letters and in the editors' annotation, with some fresh interpretation of controversial matters. Hardcover, red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxvii, 807 pages, two illustrations. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book,in a near fine dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear paperlined removable protective jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Reprint. This volume presents 1592 letters, 641 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. They are years of great activity. Dickens completes the serial publication of David Copperfield in November 1850 and begins writing Bleak House almost exactly a year later. He successfully establishes the weekly Household Words, the first number of which appears on 27 March 1850 (dated o March). His own serial, A Child's History of England, appears in it between January 1851 and December 1853; during the period 1850-2 he also writes about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and his friend Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton found the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists; to raise money for it he both manages and acts in two dramatic works-a comedy written by Bulwer Lytton, and a farce written by Mark Lemon and himself. During this period he suffers a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there is also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine. In the autumn of 1851 he moves to Tavistock House, illustrated as the frontispiece to this volume; among the appendixes is the list of imitation book-backs that he had made for the library of his new residence. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxi, 909 pages, two illustrations. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book, in a near fine dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear removable protective jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. This volume presents 1271letters, 4388 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix of Addenda, over 300 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes. The period is one of activity remarkable even for Dickens. Besides the continuous editing of Household Words (where his Hard Times appears as a weekly serial), he is still at work on Bleak Honse until August 1853 and in 1855 is writing the early numbers of Little Dorrit. He manages and acts in children's plays in his little Tavistock House theatre on Twelfth Night, and later takes the leading part in Wilkie Collins's drama The bhthouse with great effect. Work with Miss Coutts and the troublesome inmates of her "Home" increases, and readings for charity have begun. The Crimean war and the government's mismanagement receive much comment in letters and satirical articles, and lead to one exceptional venture into political life with a speech for the Administrative Reform Association. But his long and happy periods of residence in France with his family encourage a more detached view, and he also revisits Switzerland and Italy on a two-month tour with Collins and the painter Augustus Egg. Friends and family still dominate his personal life, but for a few weeks long-past emotions are revived when he hears from his old love Maria Beadnell, now a middle-aged Mrs Winter; on his side they did not survive an actual meeting. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine within a pale blue panel, in red and pale yellow dustwrapper. xxiii, 975 pages,frontispiece plus one further illustration. 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Near fine book in a near fine dustwrapper.The dustwrapper is in a clear paperlined removable protective jacket. …

1st printing. xxv, [3], 692 pp (including Index). Frontis, a map & playbill reproductions. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (772 herein, with 264 first published). NF (push to text block)/VG+ (some minor wear & soiling, with chip to left base of front panel). Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket.…

1st printing. xx, [4], 909, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). Frontis & facsimile playbill. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (1592 herein, with 641 first published). VG - VG+ (average wear)/Abt VG (backstrip sunned, with chip at base/price sticker abrasion to top right of front panel/piec of tape reinforcement to lower portionm of front flap fold). Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket.…

1st edition. xxi, [3], 753 pp (including Index). Frontis facsimile + 1 intratextual letter facsimile. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (1248 herein, with 480 first published). Nr Fine (light foxing to top edge)/VG+ (backstrip sunned/pc). Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. …

1st Edition. xxvii, [1], 807 pp (including Index). PO research notes laid-in. Frontis + 1 plate. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (1324 herein, with many now first published). Of particular note, the editors identified 6 forgeries, previously thought legitimate, with all appearing to be by the 'South Coast Forger'. [preface, p. ix]. Dickens main work published during this period was Little Dorrit, however, it was also during this period that Dickens separated from his wife of many years, Catherine & gave the 1st of what was to be a profitable, albeit consuming, activity, his dramatic readings. VG+ (po name stamp to ffep, po circular blindstamp to t.p. lower right corner)/VG (average wear & soiling/sticker shadow, residue at base of backstrip, which is sunned). Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. …

1st printing. xlvi, [2], 744 pp (including Index). Frontis + 4 leaves of plates. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete & scholarly edition of Dickens' letters ever published, of which 1059 are found herein. VG (square & tight/top edge soiled)/Abt VG (spine panel sun-tanned/wear & soiling). Red cloth binding. Pale yellow & red dust jacket.…

1st Printing. xxvi, 813, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Frontispiece of Dickens, reproducing an 1867 Gurney photograph. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete edition of Dickens' letters (1151 herein, with 427 for the first time, with 76 for the first time complete). VG ("damaged" stamp to t.p., though I am at a loss to find any.?)/VG (backstrip sunned/average wear & soiling). Red cloth binding. Red & pale yellow dust jacket. …

Condizione: Nr Fine / Nr Fine. 1st printing. xix, [3], 547, [1] pp. Frontis. Facsimiles. Map. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" The most complete, scholarly edition of Dickens' letters, containing 706, of which 250 are previously unpublished. Red cloth binding. Pale yellow & red dust jacket.