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A Tale of Two CitiesCharles DickensChapman and Hall

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A Tale of Two Cities

Chapman and Hall · 1859 · Hardback

page number misprinted as 113

Value coming soonSold £800, Mar 2026

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, cover of another edition (the Parker Pub. Co 1858 cover is not yet photographed)

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Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical

Parker Pub. Co · 1858 · Hardback

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Bleak HouseCharles DickensBradbury and Evans

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Bleak House

Bradbury and Evans · 1853 · Hardback

misspelt 'elgble'

Value coming soonSold £600, Jun 2022

Hard Times, cover of another edition (the Bradbury & Evans 1854 cover is not yet photographed)

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Hard Times

Bradbury & Evans · 1854 · Hardback

olive green horizontally ribbed cloth with the price 5/- in gilt at the…

Value coming soonSold £150, Apr 2025

Leaves of Grass, cover of another edition (the Self-published 1855 cover is not yet photographed)

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Leaves of Grass

Self-published · 1855 · Hardback

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Madame BovaryGustave FlaubertMichel Lévy frères

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Madame Bovary

Michel Lévy frères · 1857 · Other

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Moby DickHerman MelvilleRichard Bentley

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Moby Dick

Richard Bentley · 1851 · Hardback

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, cover of another edition (the John Murray 1859 cover is not yet photographed)

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

John Murray · 1859 · Hardback

two epigraphs only, from Whewell and Bacon

Value coming soonSold £78,000, May 2025

Phantastes, cover of another edition (the Smith, Elder 1858 cover is not yet photographed)

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Phantastes

Smith, Elder · 1858 · Hardback

Value coming soonSold £420, Oct 2024

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia first edition cover, B. Quaritch 1859

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia

B. Quaritch · 1859 · Hardback

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The Scarlet Letter first edition cover, Ticknor and Fields 1850

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The Scarlet Letter

Ticknor and Fields · 1850 · Hardback

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Villette first edition cover, Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill 1853

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Villette

Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill · 1853 · Hardback

Value coming soonSold £2,200, Jul 2017

Walden first edition cover, Ticknor and Fields 1854

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Walden

Ticknor and Fields · 1854 · Hardback

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