The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

First edition, second issue of A Christmas Carol, signed and dated in 1850 by Charles Dickens at the head of the preface leaf. half-title and verso of title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece, three hand-colored etched plates by John Leech, and four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech; two pages of publisher's advertisements after the text; with the following edition points: the first chapter heading titled "Stave I," balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843, yellow endpapers, with the first impression second issue second state of the binding (the upper serif of "D" of Dickens broken off), in publisher's brown ribbed cloth. In very good condition. The Chimes, The Battle of Life, Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man, and The Ghost’s Bargain all very good to near fine condition and housed together in a custom full morocco clamshell box that mimics the set.