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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens’s second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
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Charles Dickens Great Expectations 1861 1st Edition Impressions. Sold for over $150,000.
Here is the title page of Vol. I of the first edition of Great Expectations:
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Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Under Deadline for “Oliver Twist”: “…I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist…”
Charles Dickens autograph letter signed with rare content regarding one of his most famous novels, “Oliver Twist”. Dated “Thursday morning”, with no year but likely mid to late 1837, Dickens writes from his home on Doughty Street to “Mrs. Macready” – Catherine Macready, the wife of Dickens’ friend and the celebrated Shakespearean actor, William Macready, who was starring in “Hamlet” in 1837. Dickens writes, “I very much regret that most pressing, more solitary, and less agreeable engagements prevent my having the pleasure of dining with you tomorrow. I should apologize for not answering your kind note before, but Kate was taken so very unwell yesterday morning that she was compelled to go to bed – and hence the delay. She is better to-day and sends her best regards…Charles Dickens / I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist, as not to enter the doors of Covent Garden Theatre since the opening night, despite Hamlet and Othello. What do you think of that?” The first installment of “Oliver Twist” was published in February 1837, and Dickens was apparently working on the additional installments throughout 1837. Three page letter on card-style stationery measures 4.5″ x 7.25″. Intersecting folds and rust from paperclip impression, overall in very good condition with bold signature. Dickens’ letters regarding his novels are rare, with a similar letter mentioning progress on “Oliver Twist” and “Nicholas Nickleby” selling for approximately $13,000 in 2004. Sold for $10,710.
Charles Dickens Twice-Signed CDV
Very scarce carte-de-visite photograph of Charles Dickens with his Charles Dickens autograph upon the lower margin with his usual paraph emphasizing the signature, and again signed upon the verso. Photograph, circa early 1860’s shortly after the publication of “Great Expectations,” is by the photography studio of John & Charles Watkins, with the backstamp showing their 34 Parliament Street address. Photograph captures a somewhat disheveled Dickens in a contrast of both casual and formal attire, standing by an ornate table. It was during Dickens’ lifetime that photography became accessible to most people, although the ability to sign a photograph, such as this, wasn’t available until the invention of the carte-de-visite printed upon paper. The CDV format became popular during the 1860’s, just years before Dickens’ death in 1870. As a result, this signed photograph by Dickens came at a brief intersection of the author’s life and growing photo technology, making it very scarce. CDV measures 2.5″ x 4″. In very good condition with light soiling. Dark Charles Dickens autograph. Sold for $10,251.86.
Charles Dickens autograph letter signed from 1854, shortly after writing ”Hard Times”. Dickens writes from Tavistock House in London on 23 December 1854, writing ”Dear sir, Let me amuse you that your explanation was not at all necessary. I fully understood that you had a great deal to do, and never for a moment accused you in my thoughts of the slightest omission. The result of the night is very gratifying indeed, and fills me with pleasure. There is no hope of Sir towards Dalmer Lytton. He told me only the other day, that he was quite bewildered by such applications, and that where a speech hanging on him was to cast a shadow on his daily life. We resolve of never to ask any such service of each other and your letter binds me for the first time what I promise.” Dickens signs ”Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens” with his ornate paraph to second page of 2pp. letter on two sheets. Matted to blue background underneath brown wooden frame with engraving of Dickens. Letter measures 4.25” x 6.5”, framed to 20.25” x 26”. Light soiling to bottom of second page of letter, and very small tears to top of each sheet. Very good condition overall. Bold Charles Dickens autograph. Sold for $3,781.
Charles Dickens autograph letter signed, dated 15 March 1867 from Dublin. Written on Gads Hill Place stationery, his Kent estate where he lived from 1867 until his death in 1870. Shortly after this letter, Dickens began a grueling reading tour of the United States and then a series of ”farewell readings” in England, Scotland and Ireland. Letter addressed to Major Colonel Cunningham mentions one of his readings: ”Dublin Friday fifteenth March 1867 / Dear Sir / I am heartily glad to hear from you again and should have been delighted to dine with you today but that I ‘Read’ tonight. Indeed then I am so engaged which is but occasionally. I thank my stars all social pleasures is denied me, and I lead a mere working life. Believe me always / Very faithfully yours / Charles Dickens / Major General Cunningham”. Written in blue ink, letter measures 4” x 7”, framed to an overall size of 13” x 22.5”. Light folds, else near fine. Nice Charles Dickens autograph. Sold for $1,892.
Charles Dickens autograph letter signed. Dated 12 October 1840, letter was composed while Dickens was working on ”Christmas Story” at age 28. Letter reads in full, ”My Dear Sir, I have just returned to town after six weeks absent and hasten to thank you for your friendly congratulations and good wishes, which I do most cordially. I have written to [illegible] Ebson by this post. / Believe me / Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens.” Single-page letter on a sheet of card-style stationery measures 4.5” x 7.25”. A notation ”William Smith Williams” and another word appear at the bottom edge. Toning, 1” separation at top fold and paper remnant to top edge of verso. Overall in very good plus condition. Bold Charles Dickens autograph. Sold for $1,875.
Gutenberg Bible Leaf 193 Chronicles of Old Testament
Scarce leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, one of the earliest major books printed from moveable metal type, the invention that ushered in the Age of Enlightenment by democratizing knowledge through mass production of literature. Printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany from 1450-1455, less than 50 complete or near-complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible are now extant, with nearly all those housed in public institutions. Singular leaves are also scarce, with the leaf presented here having been acquired by bookseller Gabriel Wells, whose purchase of an incomplete Bible in 1920 gave way to selling the individual leaves alongside an essay by A. Edward Newton entitled “A Noble Fragment”. Leaf is number 193 of the full Latin Bible, with the recto being the Prologue to 1 Chronicles of the Old Testament, and the verso the first part of Chapter 1 of 1 Chronicles. Each page features two columns of 42 lines in dark black Gothic type, accented by red and blue rubrication. Each copy of the Gutenberg Bible differs in its rubrication and illumination, with buyers at the time deciding upon these embellishments after the Bible was printed. The six-line rubricated letters of this leaf were likely added later, restored to match the original style. Leaf measures 11.125″ x 15.375″, bound on edge to portfolio measuring 11.75″ x 16″. Paper quality is still bright with very little foxing or discoloration compared to other examples. A stunning example from the book that changed the course of history. Sold for $136,500.
Rare first edition, first printing of one of the most desired books in the history of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1925, with the nearly impossible to find first printing dustjacket. Every point is present: 1925 is printed on title page; Charles Scribner’s Sons logo appears on the copyright page with no subsequent printing statements; ”chatter” appears on page 60; ”northern” appears on page 119; ”it’s” is printed on line 16 of page 165; ”sick in tired” is found on page 205; ”Union Street station” is mistyped on line 7-8 of page 211. Bound in dark green cloth boards with title and author’s name blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Francis Cugat’s scarce original unrestored first printing dustjacket has the lowercase ”j” in ”jay Gatsby” on the back panel hand-corrected in ink. Sold for $50,000.
Very rare ”Gone With the Wind” novel signed by the cast. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1938, later edition. Novel is signed on the front endpapers by the leading cast members: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Ona Munson, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Thomas Mitchell, Carroll Nye, Oscar Polk, and unit manager William J. Scully. Underneath their signatures are the names of their ”Gone With the Wind” characters, written in another hand. Housed in a custom leather clamshell box with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, ”Gone With the Wind / Autographed by Twelve Members of Cast”. Book measures 6” x 9”. Toning to signature page, otherwise very good. With PSA/DNA for all actor’s signatures. Sold for $15,000.
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