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London:: Chapman & Hall; Bradbury and Evans;, 1843-1848.. Hardcover first edition -. First editions, Complete set of Dicken's five Christmas books, all are small octavos ((6 1/2 x 4 inches or 165 x 105 mm), bound in ribbed cloth with covers decoratively blind stamped in blind, and the front covers and spines also stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol is bound in cinnamon cloth, the other four titles are all bound in a deep red cloth. All housed in a decorative red binocular style clamshell case. 1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition with the following first issue points - title page dated 1843, "Stave I" on first page of text, blue half-title and red and blue lettering on title page, original green-coated endpapers. 166 pp plus 2 pp. Colored frontispiece and three hand-colored plates (opposite p 25, 78 and 150) plus four wood engravings. two pages…

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, greedy, and cold-hearted old miser who is transformed into a kind, generous man after visits by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.