RIVIERE & SON, binders . DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol, 1843; The Chimes, 1845[1844]; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846[1845]; The Battle of Life, 1846; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, 1848, all London, together 5 vols., small 8vo, 170 x 110 x 18mm. (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 11/16in.), uniformly bound in dark green levant morocco, covers with single gilt fillet around an inner panel of gilt fillet and broken line with triple-headed stylized ivy corner ornaments; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a holly and mistletoe device in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with an ivy roll, marbled endpapers, g.e., original cloth covers and spines preserved at end, stamp-signed by the binders on each upper turn-in, backs very slightly dull, some internal soiling , FIRST EDITIONS, illustrated. Smith 2:4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. (Maxwell) (5)
RIVIERE & SON, binders . DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol, 1843; The Chimes, 1845[1844]; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846[1845]; The Battle of Life, 1846; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, 1848, all London, together 5 vols., small 8vo, 170 x 110 x 18mm. (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 11/16in.), uniformly bound in dark green levant morocco, covers with single gilt fillet around an inner panel of gilt fillet and broken line with triple-headed stylized ivy corner ornaments; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a holly and mistletoe device in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with an ivy roll, marbled endpapers, g.e., original cloth covers and spines preserved at end, stamp-signed by the binders on each upper turn-in, backs very slightly dull, some internal soiling , FIRST EDITIONS, illustrated. Smith 2:4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. (Maxwell) (5)
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