The dickens fellowship (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Two pamphlets and one typescript letter dating from 1970 regarding events organised on the centenary of Charles Dickens' death. [Charles Dickens - Printed Ephemera] Some minor annotations to programme o/w clean copies in good condition.p1054 / m8598.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 1 v. : ill., plates, ports. ; 23 cm. Subject; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Periodicals. 1 Kg.

Green card cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). [32pp].

1st ed. - Signed by the author. - Softcover.

[Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)]. The Dickens Fellowship. King's Hall, King Street, Covent Garden, W.C. On Wednesday, January 7th, 1914, The Dickens Fellowship will Present at 7 O'Clock, "The Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of Edwin Drood." [London]: The Dickens Fellowship, 1914. 10" x 8" (25.7 x 20.5 cm) broadside, vignette of Jasper to upper right corner. Light toning, single faint horizontal fold line. A very good copy. $50. * A charming piece of Dickensiana, this flier advertises a mock trial of Jasper that was held at King's Hall, Covent Garden in 1914. G.K Chesterton was the judge. George Bernard Shaw was the foreman of the jury. The trial ended with a conviction for manslaughter; murder charges were dismissed due to the absence of Drood's body.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. The Second Dickens Exhibition, held under the auspices of the Dickens Fellowship at the New Dudley Gallery, 169, Piccadilly, London, from July 29th to September 19th, 1908. 48pp. Green printed, illustrated card covers (worn and faded, chipped along spine, a few marks). Internally mostly clean, bright and neat. Binding a little fragile. A few pages have a mild crease and there is the odd finger mark or smudge. 3 plate illustrations, numerous contemporary advertisements, mostly for Dickens-related memorabilia - including an advertisement from bookseller James Tregaskis for the Mahogany Office Table, the Office Chair, the High-backed Cane Chair and Looking Glass which 'for many years were in daily use by Dickens', for 75 guineas - first and other memorable editions of Dickens' works and other Dickensiana. A catalogue of exhibitions in the Exhibition, with brief descriptions and sale prices, preceded by an introduction by J W T Ley. …

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Three items: a page with a quotation from Dickens, and list of characters in MP's autograph; and two copies of the speech. Text entirely legible throughout, but on worn and creased paper MP is not named as the author, but the item is undoubtedly his work: one of the two copies has autograph emendations in pencil. ONE: Typed Notes for 'Dickens Fellowship Speech'. 2pp, 4to. Begins: 'Comment on previous speaker's points. / Dickens the great Englishman - more than that the great man of the Middle Classes. He championed the Poor but he believed in his own class. All his real people are not of the Aristocracy but of the Middle Classes. That is why we want him today. He would have championed us, and we need a champion.' Later: 'If he were here today - what a Prime Minister he would make. And one could get a Cabine[t] from amongst his characters. Let us try to make one. With the Master himself as Prime Minister who follows?' He gives a list of characters, their cabinet posts and reasons for appointment, beginning with Micawber as Chancellor, and ending with 'Health. Dr Parker Peps. [added in autograph: 'NEVER HEARD OF A PATIENT GETTING WELL'] / Labour. One of the Cheeryble Brothers - or Joe the Blacksmith.' Ends: 'It is the privilege of thye Dickens Fellowship to pay homage to his name but he would make the whole country one great English Fellowship if he could come amongst us again.' TWO: Second copy of One, without any autograph annotations. THREE: Leaf (1p, 4to), with three typed lines at head giving Micawber's celebrated 'happiness' and 'misery' speech. Beneath this, in pencil autograph, a list of twelve cabinet posts and names of characters to fill them, pretty much repeating the suggestions in the speech.From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Three items: a page with a quotation from Dickens, and list of characters in MP's autograph; and two copies of the speech. Text entirely legible throughout, but on worn and creased paper MP is not named as the author, but the item is undoubtedly his work: one of the two copies has autograph emendations in pencil. ONE: Typed Notes for 'Dickens Fellowship Speech'. 2pp, 4to. Begins: 'Comment on previous speaker's points. / Dickens the great Englishman - more than that the great man of the Middle Classes. He championed the Poor but he believed in his own class. All his real people are not of the Aristocracy but of the Middle Classes. That is why we want him today. He would have championed us, and we need a champion.' Later: 'If he were here today - what a Prime Minister he would make. And one could get a Cabine[t] from amongst his characters. Let us try to make one. With the Master himself as Prime Minister who follows?' He gives a list of characters, their cabinet posts and reasons for appointment, beginning with Micawber as Chancellor, and ending with 'Health. Dr Parker Peps. [added in autograph: 'NEVER HEARD OF A PATIENT GETTING WELL'] / Labour. One of the Cheeryble Brothers - or Joe the Blacksmith.' Ends: 'It is the privilege of thye Dickens Fellowship to pay homage to his name but he would make the whole country one great English Fellowship if he could come amongst us again.' TWO: Second copy of One, without any autograph annotations. THREE: Leaf (1p, 4to), with three typed lines at head giving Micawber's celebrated 'happiness' and 'misery' speech. Beneath this, in pencil autograph, a list of twelve cabinet posts and names of characters to fill them, pretty much repeating the suggestions in the speech.…