LITERATURE 4 “The One Great Christmas Myth Of Modern Literature”: Beautiful Unrestored First Issue Of A Christmas Carol, Together With Exceptional Copies Of The Other Four Christmas Books, All In Original Gilt-Decorated Cloth First editions of all five of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books—chief among them a first issue of his immortal Christmas Carol, the veritable “Bible of Christmas”— illustrated with 63 engravings, four in color, by Leech, Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle and Landseer, all books in the original gilt-decorated cloth, including a particularly beautiful Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol “may readily be called the Bible of Christmas… It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day… the number of reprintings have been so many that all attempts at the figures have been futile. Altogether 24 editions were issued in the original format” (Eckel, 110). “It was a work written at the height of Dickens’ great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor” (John Mortimer). “Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks, [A Christmas Carol] was the LITERATURE❦ 01DICKENS, Charles. The Christmas Books. London, 1843-48. Together, five volumes. 12mo, original cloth, custom box. $65,000
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