Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man

Hard Cover, London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-48, First Edition. Very Good.

First edition, mixed issues. Beautiful bound in polished full red calf by Zaehnsdorf. Gilt decorated spines, turn-ins and page edges. Original cloth covers bound in. All first editions; A Christmas Carol, second issue with "Stave One" and uncorrected text; The Chimes, second state of vignette title page; The Cricket on the Hearth, first state; The Battle of Life, vignette title in the common fourth variant; The Haunted Man, first issue. Lightly worn and rubbed, front hinge of A Christmas Carol neatly repaired, else a very good and attactive set.

Item #CD014       Price: $4,500.00