THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; A Goblin Story; The Cricket On The Hearth; A Fairy Tale Of Home; The Battle Of Life; A Love Story; The Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain.

First collected edition, first printing. With a new one page introduction by the author published here for the first time. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards. Decorated in gilt to the spine, and with titles stamped in gilt on a red morocco label. Frontispiece illustration "Mr. Fezziwig's Ball" after the original John Leech design originally printed in 1843 first edition of A Christmas Carol. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a just a little rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with a previous owner's name (dated 1853) to the front endpaper and some spotting and toning to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. An attractive example.

Originally published in five individual volumes between 1843 and 1848, this is the first publication of Dickens' Christmas stories in one volume.