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Lot 149
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$300 -
500
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$195
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Lot Description
[Christmas] Dickens, Charles. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845 (but 1844). First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page (Smith's first state), and many in-text engravings, by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech, and Clarkson Stanfield. Publisher's crimson cloth-covered boards, decorated in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; in red cloth clamshell, cover detached. Smith II: 5
A fine first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's second Christmas book.