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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 194760, member: 25&quot;]That is not the original binding,, I suspect it was bound in the 1860s for someone whose signature appears in it. </p><p>The priciest Dickens editions are the bound original parts or installments. The next are the publishers original bound editions where the parts were reprinted, but of these, the first state editions are far more valuable than later states where typos and other errors were corrected in the edition. There are guides that specify the &#039;points&#039; by which one can distinguish first state copies. Search Dickens editions points.</p><p><br /></p><p>The binding is called half calf, it is not a full leather binding. </p><p><br /></p><p>The more popular books fetch more than the less popular ones. A Christmas Carol is one of the most popular, Master Humpfrey is somewhere down the list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rebinding books as the owner desired was quite common in the 19th C, they made the library look tidier and half calf with marbled boards was a popular choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>If any of the 3 books are first state, you need to find out. They almost certainly are not but there is no way a buyer could know this so they will make the same assumption I do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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