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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities

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Bidding on Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities

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Hammer price

$22,000
17 bids4 bidders
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This lot has been sold.

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A buyer’s premium of 10% applies to the hammer price. At $22,000 that is $2,200, for a total of $24,200 excluding shipping and any applicable tax.

Consigned by

Rafael Ortiz-Bennett

@ortizbennett

4.7 from 96 sales

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Catalogue note

Published by Dean & Son. 388 pp. Written by Charles Dickens. The Open Library records the earliest catalogued edition of the work as 1800, which is a cataloguing date rather than a bibliographical one and is not warranted here.

The record for this object is published by the Open Library, which gives neither an acquisition credit nor an ownership history for it. Both are noted here as absent rather than filled in.

Not collated and sold not subject to return. No edition, issue or state is warranted: the record describes the work rather than any one impression of it, and the plate reproduced is the copy scanned by the source library. Catalogue data for this lot is drawn from the Open Library's open-access collections record (Open Library / Internet Archive).

Provenance

Not established. The Open Library publishes the catalogue record for this object but no ownership history, and none is asserted here.

Condition

Good

Honest wear throughout. Structurally sound and complete.

Condition reports are the house’s opinion, offered in good faith. Lots are sold as viewed; the absence of a remark does not imply the absence of a fault.

Bidding history17 bids from 4 bidders

  1. A••• S.Leading

    Bid

    $22,000

  2. G••• L.

    Automatic bid

    $21,500

  3. G••• L.

    Bid

    $20,000

  4. Y••• D.

    Automatic bid

    $19,500

  5. Y••• D.

    Bid

    $18,500

  6. M••• C.

    Automatic bid

    $18,000

  7. M••• C.

    Bid

    $17,000

  8. A••• S.

    Bid

    $16,500

  9. G••• L.

    Automatic bid

    $16,000

  10. G••• L.

    Bid

    $15,500

  11. Y••• D.

    Automatic bid

    $15,000

  12. Y••• D.

    Bid

    $14,500

  13. M••• C.

    Automatic bid

    $14,000

  14. M••• C.

    Bid

    $13,000

  15. A••• S.

    Bid

    $12,500

  16. G••• L.

    Automatic bid

    $12,000

  17. G••• L.

    Bid

    $11,500

Bidders are shown by initial, as they would be by paddle in the room. Bids marked “automatic” were placed by the house on a bidder’s behalf, against a maximum only they can see.

Terms of sale

Buyer's premium
10% of the hammer price, added to your invoice.
Reserve
Offered without reserve — it sells to the highest bidder.
Anti-snipe
A bid in the closing moments extends the clock so the room can answer.
Settlement
Funds are held on deposit while you lead, and released the moment you are outbid.

Catalogue record

This lot describes a real object held by Open Library, whose collection data is published for open access. The object is not for sale; it stands in here so the saleroom can be demonstrated against genuine catalogue records rather than invented ones.

View the museum recordLicence: Open Library / Internet Archive