Lot 269
  • 269

Dickens, Charles. A collection of editions of the letters, including privately printed limited editions and volumes from the library of comte alain de suzannet, comprising:

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The Letters...edited by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter, 3 volumes, Chapman and Hall, 1880-82, original maroon cloth gilt, BOOKPLATES OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; another copy, original covers bound in, full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf; Letters...to Wilkie Collins, 1851-1870, selected by Miss Georgina Hogarth, edited by Laurence Hutton, Osgood & McIlvaine, 1892, original dark blue cloth; another copy, WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; another edition, with portraits and facsimiles, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892; Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell, Boston: the Bibliophile Society, 1908, LIMITED TO 493 COPIES, original half parchment; The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Edited by Harry B. Smith, Boston: the Bibliophile Society, 1910, original half parchment, BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; Charles Dickens as Editor, being letters written by him to William Henry Wills...selected by R.C. Lehrmann, Smith, Elder & Co., 1912, original red cloth gilt; another copy, BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; Charles Dickens' original autograph copy of his letter to Henry Colburn..., Chiswick Press for Cumberland Clark, 1918, original green cloth gilt, BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; another copy, with the bookplate of J. Steele of the Coldstream Guards; The Story of a Great Friendship--Charles Dickens & Clarkson Stanfield, Chiswick Press, 1918, original blue cloth, BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; another copy, with the bookplate of the Authors' Club, presentation copy from Cumberland Clark; The Unpublished Letters of Charles Dickens to Mark Lemon, edited by Walter Dexter, Halton and Truscott Smith, 1927, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, original half vellum; The Charity of Charles Dickens, Boston: the Bibliophile Society, 1929, LIMITED TO 425 COPIES; A Dickens Fellowship told in his own Letters, privately printed, January 1931, LIMITED TO 75 COPIES, half green morocco, BOOKPLATE OF ALAIN DE SUZANNET; Dickens to his Old Friend, some unpublished letters to Thomas Beard..., privately printed, 1931, NO.1 OF 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, bookplates of Walter Dexter and Alain de Suzannet, half green morocco; another edition, Putnam, 1932, NO. 1 OF 500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, original blue-green cloth; Letters of Charles Dickens to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, edited by Charles C. Osborne, John Murray, 1931, NO.41 OF 500 COPIES, original cloth; another copy, WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF COMTE ALAIN DE SUZANNET; Dickens to his first publisher John Macrone, privately printed, 1931, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, half green morocco; Dickens' First Publisher, privately printed, 1934, ONE OF 50 COPIES PRINTED BY WALTER DEXTER, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, half green morocco; Dickens' Correspondence with John Hullah, privately printed, 1933, NO. 1 OF 30 COPIES PRINTED FOR WALTER DEXTER, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, half green morocco; Charles Dickens to John Leech, privately printed, 1938, LIMITED TO 20 COPIES PRINTED FOR WALTER DEXTER, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO ALAIN DE SUZANNET, half parchment; and three others; together with volume 5 of the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters (Oxford, 1981), and seven volumes from the new Clarendon Press edition of Dickens's works (The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, Edwin Drood); chiefly 8vo (26) This lot contains 1 item(s).