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Lot 378

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$5,000 - 7,000
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$13,750
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Christmas Books]. 


A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.  Half-title, 8 illustrations including frontispiece. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, second state, with title-page printed in red and blue and dated 1843, with green endpapers, and with the balance of the text uncorrected. Eckel, pp.110-115; Smith II:4.

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Bradbury and Evans for Chapman and Hall, 1845. Half-title, 1p. advertisement, 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the vignette title-page. Eckel pp. 116-118; Smith II:5.

The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 [i.e. December 1845]. Half-title, 14 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title, 2pp. advertisement (second state). FIRST EDITION. Eckel pp. 119-120; Smith II:6.

The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Half-title, 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title(variant 2). FIRST EDITION.  Eckel, pp. 121-23; Smith II:8.

The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 2pp. advertisements, 17 illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 124-25; Smith II:9.

Together, 5 volumes, 8vo. (Some browning or spotting.) Uniformly bound in 20th-century maroon crushed levant, covers with gilt mistletoe and holly motif, upper cover to The Christmas Carol with central gilt vignette of the Fezziwig's Ball frontispiece, the rest with central gilt portrait of Dickens or mistletoe, edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, green or yellow watered silk doublures and endleaves; original green or yellow endleaves bound in; original cloth covers bound in.  ALL FIRST EDITIONS. A FINE SET. 

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