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87. DICKENS, Charles. hard Times. Office. 16 Wellington Street north. 1854.
£248
8vo., original green cloth lettered “household Words conducted by charles Dickens” in gilt on the spine and in blind on the front board. A near fine copy.
volume ix of Household Words which includes the first appearance of Hard Times.
FiRST APPEARAncE oF A TALE oF TWo ciTiES
88.DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two cities in All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. conducted by charles Dickens. With which is incorporated household Words. no.1 - no. 76. With 1859 christmas Extra issue. Published at the Office. no. 11 Wellington Street north April 30th 1859 - october 6th 1860.
£750
8vo., 3 volumes in half calf, spine panelled in gilt with contrasting leather labels. A very good set.
The first three bound volumes of All the Year Round bound with the christmas Extra issue for 1859. This volumes include the first appearance of A Tale of Two Cities and also Wilkie collins’s A Woman in White. The Extra christmas number contains Dickens’s Haunted House.
FiRST APPEARAncE oF GREAT ExPEcTATionS
89. DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations in All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. conducted by charles Dickens. With which is incorporated household Words. no 77 to no.126. Published at no. 26 Wellington Street north and Messrs Chapman and Hall. october 13 1860 to September 21 1861.
£750
8vo., 2 volumes in half calf over marbled paper boards, spines ruled in gilt with contrasting leather labels. Spines sunned otherwise a very good set.
The fourth and fifth bound volumes of All the Year Round bound without the christmas Extra issue for 1860. Great Expectations first appeared serialised here, chapter 1 commencing on December 1st 1860 and with the final chapter published in the issue of August 3rd, 1861. The title was issued in book form on 6th July 1861.
Dickens had planned to issue Great Expectations in monthly parts, but sales of All the Year Round were declining during the serialization of charles Lever’s A Long Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance. To save the magazine, Dickens wrote, “it was perfectly clear that the one thing to be done was, for me to strike in. i have therefore decided to begin the story as of the length of The Tale of Two Cities on the first of December—begin publishing, that is. i must make the most i can out of the book. You shall have the first two or three weekly parts to-morrow. The name is Great Expectations - i think a good name?” (Dickens, Letter to Forster 4 oct. 1860).
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90. [DOGS]. hector the Dog. Aunt Louisa’s London Toy Books. London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1871.
£78
4to. original yellow decorated publisher’s card covers; pp. [10], including inner covers; with 6 fine Kronheim plates; externally very fresh with one short tear to fore-edge of upper cover; internally generally clean, with some slackening of stitching and a few minor fox marks to margins.
First edition. hector is a St. Bernard dog, who, in this verse narrative, rescues a man from an avalanche.
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