![]() ![]() ![]() In near fine condition with an autograph letter bound in and period catalogue descriptions affixed to the half-title. First edition of the Battle of Life: A Love Story with half-title, advertisements, frontispiece and fourth state vignette title page. In near fine condition with ownership inscriptions. First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home with half-title, frontispiece and vignette title page with tissue guard present, first state ad leaf. First edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year with the advertisement, half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional first state pictorial vignette title page. In very good condition with a contemporary gift inscription to the verso of the front panel. ![]() Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a sixth edition with the half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue, hand-colored etched frontispiece and three hand-colored etched plates by John Leech, four wood-engravings in-text by W.J. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in the original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt. ![]() The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Battle of Life Cricket on the Hearth The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.Ĭomplete set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books. ![]()
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