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Charles Dickens. [The Christmas Numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round.] London: Bradbury and Evans; C....
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Charles Dickens. [The Christmas Numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round.] London: Bradbury and Evans; C. Whiting; and Chapman and Hall, 21 December 1850 -Christmas 1867.18 parts, 8vo. Printed in two columns. Household Words numbers sewn in self-wrappers as issued, All the Year Round numbers in original blue printed wrappers (last five issues); preserved in green cloth chemise and green half morocco pull-off case.
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THE SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBERS DICKENS ISSUED FROM HIS TWO PERIODICALS, including many well-known and well-loved stories such as The Haunted House, A Message from the Sea, Tom Tiddler's Ground, Somebody's Luggage, Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Mugby Junction, No Thoroughfare (with Wilkie Collins), and others. Additionally, these numbers contain first printings of some classic Victorian ghost stories, including Elizabeth Gaskell's much-anthologized "The Old Nurse's Story," Amelia B. Edwards' "The Phantom Coach," and Dickens' own "The Signal-Man."
Accompanied by 10 additional Christmas numbers of All the Year Round published after Dickens's death (1871-77, 1879-80, and 1885).
Condition: Some of the Household Words numbers disbound; the first number with some marginal chipping to first page; some other wear at spines or edges of self-wrappers; some toning or soiling to self-wrappers; occasional creases; All the Year Round wrappers fine. Overall, a fine set.
References: Gimbel E11-21, E113-118.
Provenance: Jock Elliott (his sale, The Christmas Collection of Jock Elliott, Sotheby's New York, 12 December 2006, lot 93). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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