A Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens 1848 First Edition

A Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time. By Charles Dickens. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.

 

FIRST EDITION of one of Dickens' Christmas Books with the original publisher's cloth bound in the rear.

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Bound by Morrell, Binder, London.

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Edition Points:  (as mentioned in Smith II.)

• iv, E slightly higher in "EXTRAORDINARY", two exception copies found. (Present)
• pp.21, line 5, "recals". (Present)
• pp.42, line 6, "recal". (Present)
• pp.57, line 1, there is a space in the word build, thus reading "Buil d". (Present)
• pp.74, 7 lines up, "inderdicted". (Present)
• pp.102, 9 lines up, there is a space in the word said, thus reading "s aid". (Present)
• pp.122, last line, the r in "children" is partially printed, in some copies only.
• pp.141, 3 lines up, there is a space in the word its, thus reading "i ts". (Present)
• pp.166, "1" in the page numbering is battered, in some copies only. (Present)

 

Condition: 

[(2), 1ff. (advertisement), h.t., frontis, engraved title, t.p., 1ff. (list of illustrations), 188pp., 2ff. (original cloth binding), (2)].

Full brown calf with red and brown tooled labels in compartments to the spine between raised bands, other compartments with decorative gilt. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed. Front board detached. Rear board attached with joint and hinge cracked, thus fragile. Shelf and edge wear. All page edges gilt with minor scratches. Edge toning to endpapers as commensurate with the full leather binding. Binder's stamp to the reverso of the ffep. Text block extremely clean with light edge toning and occasional foxing. 

 

[Smith II., 9].