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TRYING TO SAVE PIGGY SNEED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of three memoirs, six short stories written over a period of twenty years, and three essays, two on Dickens and one on Gnter Grass, with new author's notes added to each piece - A great introduction to Irving as a writer. Small chunky format. 432 pp. ISBN: 1-559703237.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 89838More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH AND MR. PICKWICK.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 79623More details Price: $25.00 -
MURDER MAKES AN ENTREE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in Edwardian England and the first in the series to published in the US. A bibliomystery with murder occuring at a dinner at Broadstairs, the seaside haunt of Charles Dickens . A Victorian whodunit. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-143761.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61780More details Price: $18.50 -
MARLEY'S GHOST.
Edition: Trade paperback original - first printing.
Corte Madera, CA: Twelfth Night Press, (2000). SIGNED first edition - "Before Scrooge, before Dickens, there was Jacob Marley. In Charles Dicken's classic, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge owes his salvation to one man: his former partner, the late Jacob Marley. Yet despite Marley's crucial role we know him only as a shadow. Until now." SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. Cover art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-967307902.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (an unread copy but light toning to top edge textblock).
Book ID: 87441More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST DICKENS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066568.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88985More details Price: $35.00 -
PARALLEL LIVES, Five Victorian Marriages.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1984.). Each of the couples in this study included one famous writer - John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mills, Charles Dickens and George Eliot (nee Marian Evans), whose scandalous marriage was the sole happy one. Notes, bibliography, index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-394-725808.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 45495More details Price: $11.50 -
PARALLEL LIVES: Five Victorian Marriages.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1984.). Each of the couples in this study included one famous writer - John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mills, Charles Dickens and George Eliot (nee Marian Evans), whose scandalous marriage was the sole happy one. Notes, bibliography, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-394-725808.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 82271More details Price: $11.50 -
DROOD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009). First edition - A massive historical thriller, based on historical details of Charles Dicken's life, and narrated by Wilkie-Collins, Dickens's friend and fellow writer, which explores the still unsolved mysteries of the author's last years. 773 pp.
Condition: Fine in a illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 63882More details Price: $50.00 -
THE CHILDREN OF DICKENS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1945. dj. A lovely book with 10 full color plates by Wilcox. The cover illustration is of Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit on Christmas Day.
Condition: Good only in black cloth with an illustrated pasted on the front cover - corners bumped, general shelf wear - in a fair dustjacket with discoloration, edgewear.
Book ID: 45117More details Price: $20.00