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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 167551, member: 25&quot;]It does help if you select &#039;full image&#039; when adding pictures. </p><p><br /></p><p>It may have been rebound thus in the latter part of the 19th C. I see there is a dated owners name. That could have been the rebinding date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The high priced Dickens firsts are the published parts bound as a book (usually the only way the parts have survived)</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have the book published editions and the first edition first state is&nbsp; more valuable then second state or later editions.</p><p><br /></p><p>But not nearly so valuable as the bound parts.</p><p><br /></p><p>To discover the exact &#039;state&#039; of your various editions, google &#039;points for Dickens first editions&#039;&nbsp; and you should come up with a list of details (minor text differences and plate differences, usually corrected errors from the first printing.) that will enable you to determine if they are first or second state.</p><p><br /></p><p>This should keep you busy for a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you can check comparables to see what people are asking for the three volumes. Asking is not getting, take any prices as double or more what you may get.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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