Lot 322
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
For these Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth (primary binding with price in gilt to foot of spine), spine faded and rolled, wear to head and foot of spine and to section of rear joint, faint mottling to sides, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, leaf B1 (section-title 'Book the First', verso blank) excised [Smith I 11];
Ibid. Pictures from Italy. London: published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, a little wear and a few pale marks to binding, front inner hinge gone, soiling to lower fore corners of quires H-K [Smith II 7];
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, 40 etched plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, binding rubbed, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves, closed tear in leaves U7-X1, closed tear to foot of plate facing p. 327, marginal tear to 2P4