Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde; Smith, Walter - Former Owners

BARNABY RUDGE. By Charles Dickens

New York: William H. Colyer, No. 5 Hague-Street, 1842. 1st edition thus, i.e. by this publisher (Edgar & Vail, p. 20; Smith AMERICAN 5, pp. 193 - 194; Wilkins, p. 20. Cf. Gimbel A64). Later green cloth spine over drab paper boards. Printed paper title label to spine. 2 volumes: [11] - 215, [3 (blank)]; [11] - 243, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Modest shelf wear. Bookplate of William Glyde Wilkins. Period pencil pos to preliminary blank. Usual bit of foxing & staining to paper. A solid VG - VG+ set. Scarce contemporaneous edition of Dickens' BARNABY RUDGE, e.g. not found in the Calinescu Collection catalogue, and the first time we've been able to offer a copy. Curiously enough, Wilkins notes the Colyer edition with an 1843 imprint date, perhaps this set came to him after 1910? NB. While there is no ownership markings of Walter Smith's, we bought this set from his estate and attest to that provenance.

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[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde - Compiler. Matz, B. W. - Contributor

DICKENS In CARTOON And CARICATURE.; Introduction by B. W. Matz

Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1924. 1st edition. Ltd to 440cc. Modern brown cloth spine, with gilt lettered leather title label, over original light brown boards. TEG. Eps renewed. 241 pp. Untrimmed fore- bottom edges. Illustrated with plates (of items not often seen elsewhere). 8vo. Square & tight. A VG+ copy. Excellent reference, which chronicles instances where Dickens is portrayed in cartoon & caricature.

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[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde

FIRST And EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS Of The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS

Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1910. 1st edition. Limited to 200 copies. Brown cloth spine over printed green paper-wrapped boards. 51 pp. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Nr. Fine (bpt). One of the few references that addresses American editions of Dickens works; a scarce title in the limited edition.

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[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde

FIRST And EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS Of The WORKS of CHARLES DICKENS. Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series #151

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint of the 1910 first edition. Grey cloth binding. Gilt spine lettering. Issued w/o dust jacket. 51, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Nr. Fine.

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Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde - Former Owner

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. In Two Volumes

New York: Published by William H. Colyer, No. 5 Hague - Street, 1843. Early US edition (Smith AMERICAN, pp. 173 - 174; Wilkins, p. 19). Later red cloth spine over buff paper boards, in a period style. Printed paper spine labels. 2 volumes: iv, [13] - 224; [4], [13] - 216, 4 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude Vol II, dated January 1st, 1843, including 5 additional Dickens' titles. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Bindings square & tight, modest wear, Wilkins' bookplate, offset to v2 front eps - overall, VG+. Textblocks show usual bit of age-toning, else VG+.

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"Boz" [pseudonym of Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870] - Editor. Grimaldi, Joseph - Subject. [Currier, Nathaniel. 1813 - 1888]. Wilkins, William Glyde - Former Owner

MEMOIRS Of JOSEPH GRIMALDI. Embellished with a Portrait

New York: William H. Colyer, 104 Beekman - Street, 1838. 2nd US edition, Second state [Conningham 3297; Gimbel B66; Vander Poel B602 (1)]. Modern buff paper wrapped boards with green linen cloth spine [in a period style] & printed paper spine label [which has an abrasion spot in center]. x, [25] - 232 pp. Frontis of Grimaldi, lithographed by 'N. Currier'. 12mo. Bound in 6s. 4 5/8" x 7 1/2". Binding: light extremity wear, bookplate, VG+. Text block: age-toning, VG - VG+ NB. Also an early Currier item, who opened his own establishment only 3 years prior, 1835.

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Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde - Former Owner

OLIVER TWIST; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With Illustrations. Complete in One Volume

New York: Wm H. Colyer, 1839. 1st edition thus (Gimbel A35 [with only 2 plates]; Smith American 3, p. 113; Wilkins, pp. 15-16). Later maroon cloth spine, later printed title label & drab boards after the original. iv, [13] - 296 pp. Frontispiece, engraved t.p. plus two inserted plates [per Smith's note 1]. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Binding - VG (with the bookplate of noted Dickens collector, William Glyde Wilkins). Textblock - VG (usual foxing & browning to paper). An early US edition, with the text coming from Bentley's Miscellany.

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[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Wilkins, William Glyde

SOME LETTERS Of CHARLES DICKENS

Pittsburgh: Privately Printed, 1907. 1st edition (Gimbel D160). Ltd to 200cc. Green wrappers. Text w/ deckled edges. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 10 pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6". VG (spine starting to brown/slt foxing to prelims). 10 letters [then] in the possession of Wilkins, now published for the first time. Begins with a letter to Longhurst, written in 1832. The concluding 6 are to fellow author, William Howitt.

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