LIVE LOTS 17,750,525 HOUSES 866 UNSOLD RECORDED 4,679,484 UPDATED NIGHTLY
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1843–1848

Dickens

235results on record
85%sell-through
$1,566median result (USD, incl. premium; 100% observed, 0% estimated from hammer)
$66,886record in our coverage

Drawn from 235 recorded results (199 sold · 36 passed) across 2 auction houses, 1998–2026. 3 upcoming lots on the ledger. What we cover

Median sold price by year typical estimate range median result USD, incl. premium; 100% observed, 0% estimated from hammer method · log scale

$1.3K$2.7K$4.0K1998: $3.3K median, 1 sold1999: $722 median, 1 sold2012: $624 median, 5 sold2013: $2.1K median, 7 sold2014: $2.0K median, 9 sold2015: $2.1K median, 8 sold2016: $3.4K median, 7 sold2017: $2.3K median, 2 sold2018: $1.9K median, 4 sold2019: $1.5K median, 9 sold2020: $2.4K median, 5 sold2021: $1.2K median, 62 sold2022: $1.3K median, 45 sold2023: $1.3K median, 7 sold2024: $1.8K median, 11 sold2025: $4.9K median, 8 sold2026: $1.6K median, 8 sold19982005201220192026

Where does a value land in this market?

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The same figure also answers the seller's question: which house clears a work like this, and for how much — expected proceeds by house, from the sell-through the rest of this page is built on.

$1.6K$98$67K

Every sold result for this market, low to high (log scale) — the dashed line is the median. Enter a value to see where it lands.

By medium where medium is recorded or stated in the catalog line

MediumResultsSell-throughMedian result (USD)
other 167 83% $1,595
ceramics & design 3 67% $738
works on paper 3 67% $11,990
prints 3 100% $1,345

Medium is recorded for 176 of 235 results (75%) — rows above cover that subset; the rest of the record is in the full ledger below.

Compared with Fleming Dickens Fleming

$3.4K$6.9K$10K2012: $759 median2013: $5.6K median2014: $2.8K median2015: $2.4K median2016: $1.8K median2017: $3.4K median2018: $6.3K median2019: $8.0K median2020: $6.9K median2021: $13K median2022: $3.4K median2023: $2.2K median2024: $2.1K median2025: $3.8K median2026: $8.8K median1998: $3.3K median1999: $722 median2012: $624 median2013: $2.1K median2014: $2.0K median2015: $2.1K median2016: $3.4K median2017: $2.3K median2018: $1.9K median2019: $1.5K median2020: $2.4K median2021: $1.2K median2022: $1.3K median2023: $1.3K median2024: $1.8K median2025: $4.9K median2026: $1.6K median19982005201220192026
MetricDickensFleming
Median result$1,566$2,947
Record price $66,886 $58,946
Results on record235151
Years active at auction 1998–2026 2012–2026

Related artists: FlemingTolkienRowlingChurchill

Market strength liquidity score, 0–100 · method

82/ 100
  • Sell-through85%
  • Meets estimate71%
  • Market depth235 results

How readily and near-estimate this market clears — sell-through, estimate reliability, and depth, blended into one score. "Meets estimate" is the share of sold lots hammering at or above the low estimate, over catalogs that print a real appraisal: a house whose printed low is a starting bid would meet its estimate on every lot, so those lots are excluded from this term only — their prices and outcomes still count in the other two. Method →

Where this artist sells best

HouseResultsSell-throughMedianvs. estimate
Bonhams 233 85% $1,566 1.03×
Christie's 2 $2,027

The same artist across every house we cover — hammer-vs-estimate side by side. A dash in the estimate column can mean withheld rather than unpublished: the house publishes no hammer price, or its printed low is a starting bid rather than an appraisal. Method →

Prices realized 238 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule ✓ Includes 36 passed lots

DateLotMediumvs. estimateEstimate USDResult USD, incl. premiumHouse
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2026·06 A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman and Hall, 1859 $1,325–$1,987 Bonhams
2026·06 Autograph letter in the third person to Charles Elmé Francatelli of the St James's Hotel, Gad's Hill Place, 18 [but 19] May 1869 $1,060–$1,590 Bonhams
2026·06 Autograph quotation of six lines from 'David Copperfield', signed and dated 24 January 1852 $13,249–$19,873 Bonhams
2026·06 Autograph letter signed to Sir Joseph Olliffe, Folkstone, 26 August 1855 $1,325–$2,650 Bonhams
2026·06 Autograph letter signed to A.R. de Montarcis, in French, Devonshire Terrace, 7 December 1848 $1,325–$2,650 Bonhams
2026·06 Autograph letter signed to Rev. G.R. Gleig, Wellington Street, W.C., 13 September 1861 $1,325–$2,650 Bonhams
2026·03 Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1838 $797–$1,063 Bonhams
2026·03 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A SET OF VARIANT PLATES, Chapman & Hall, 1837 $664–$930 Bonhams
2026·03 (CHARLES) A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, MacMillan & Co., 1872 (2) $797–$1,063 Bonhams
2025·11 A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in book form, Chapman & Hall, 1859 $1,055–$1,582 Bonhams
2025·11 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A SET OF VARIANT PLATES, Chapman & Hall, 1837 $1,055–$1,582 Bonhams
2025·11 (CHARLES) [Christmas Books] A complete set of the 5 books, FIRST EDITIONS, 1843-1848 (5) $1,977–$2,636 Bonhams
2025·11 [Works], 30 vol., Chapman & Hall, [c.1880] $659–$1,055 Bonhams
2025·11 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, WITH FIRST ISSUE TEXT in 16 of the 20 parts, Chapman & Hall, 1837 $1,055–$1,582 Bonhams
2025·06 'PHIZ' AND PICKWICK: BROWNE (HABLOT K., 'PHIZ') Original drawing for 'The Ghostly Passengers in the Ghost of a Mail', INSCRIBED BY DICKENS $9,481–$13,545 Bonhams
2025·06 Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Paxton, Devonshire Terrace, London, 25 August 1847 $1,084–$1,625 Bonhams
2025·03 (CHARLES) Autograph quotation signed ("Charles Dickens"), pasted into vol. 1 of The Pickwick Papers, 1865 $776–$1,035 Bonhams
2025·03 Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Chapman and Hall, 1861 $2,587–$5,174 Bonhams
2025·03 'PHIZ' AND PICKWICK: BROWNE (HABLOT K., 'PHIZ') Original drawing for 'The Ghostly passengers in the Ghost of a Mail', INSCRIBED BY DICKENS $19,401–$25,868 Bonhams
2025·03 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, SMITH'S FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, Chapman & Hall, 1843 $7,760–$10,347 Bonhams
2024·11 (CHARLES) Autograph cheque signed ("Charles Dickens"), London, 6 January 1863 $754–$1,006 Bonhams
2024·11 Autograph note signed, to Ary Scheffer, Paris, April 1856 $754–$1,006 Bonhams
2024·06 The Works, 26 vol. "Library Edition", Chapman and Hall, [c.1870] $768–$1,024 Bonhams
2024·06 Oliver Twist, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, 1838 $1,024–$1,536 Bonhams
2024·06 Autograph letter signed to C.F. Smith, 4 March 1857 $1,024–$1,536 Bonhams
2024·06 [Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, 1843; and 3 others $768–$1,024 Bonhams
2024·06 The Christmas Carol, FIRST EDITION, FIRST "TRIAL" ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1844 [but 1843] $8,962–$11,523 Bonhams
2024·06 Autograph cheque signed, 8 May 1863 $640–$896 Bonhams
2024·03 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1843 $2,538–$3,808 Bonhams
2024·03 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, VERY EARLY ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1837 $2,538–$5,077 Bonhams
2024·03 Autograph cheque signed, in favour of Messrs Sparks and Son, London, 6 January 1869 $769–$1,026 Bonhams
2023·11 (CHARLES) Indenture, signed twice ("Charles Dickens"), 26 March 1867 $1,254–$1,882 Bonhams
2023·11 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, VERY EARLY ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1837 $12,294–$18,441 Bonhams
2023·11 Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853 $738–$984 Bonhams
2023·11 The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844] $492–$738 Bonhams
2023·06 (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") to I.W. Raine ("Sir"), Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, "Wednesday Thirtieth March 1859" $764–$1,018 Bonhams
2023·03 Oliver Twist, By "Boz", 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Richard Bentley, 1838 $986–$1,479 Bonhams
2023·03 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman and Hall, 1839 $740–$986 Bonhams
2023·03 (CHARLES) [Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, Bradbury & Evans (7) $986–$1,479 Bonhams
2022·11 A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall, 1844 $1,144–$1,716 Bonhams
2022·06 (CHARLES) [Works], 17 vol. in 13, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926 (30) $735–$980 Bonhams
2022·06 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1843 $2,450–$4,900 Bonhams
2022·04 Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People... Illustrations by George Cruikshank, [First Series] and Second Series, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, John Macrone, 1836-1837 $3,172–$4,440 Bonhams
2022·04 The Library Of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1836-1837 $634–$888 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) Sketches for Young Couples; With an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England (Being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis, FIRST EDITION, Chapman and Hall, 1840 $190–$317 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) Sunday Under Three Heads... by Timothy Sparks, FIRST EDITION, Chapman and Hall, 1836; and a copy of the 1884 facsimile (2) $888–$1,142 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) - ARCHER (THOMAS) Charles Dickens. A Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters, Cassell, [c.1894] $317–$444 Bonhams
2022·04 Out Mutual Friend, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865 $1,015–$1,522 Bonhams
2022·04 The Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, June-December 1859 $19,030–$25,374 Bonhams
2022·04 Hard Times. For These Times, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury and Evans, 1854 $381–$634 Bonhams
2022·04 The Christmas Numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round, together 18 vol., Bradbury and Evans, 1850-1858, and [The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round], Charles Dickens, 1859-1867 $634–$888 Bonhams
2022·04 Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1861 $31,717–$44,404 Bonhams
2022·04 Bleak House, First Edition in Book Form, Author's Dedication Copy Inscribed to His Friend and Collaborator Mark Lemon, Bradbury and Evans, 1853 $50,747–$76,121 Bonhams
2022·04 Is She His Wife? Or Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in one Act. [First performed at St. James's Theatre, London, Monday, March 6th, 1837], [late 1860s/early 1870s] $10,149–$15,224 Bonhams
2022·04 A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1859 $634–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman and Hall, 1859 $4,440–$5,709 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) Little Dorrit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1870 (5) $507–$761 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) Sketches of Young Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, Chapman and Hall, 1838; and uniformly bound "Sketches of Young Ladies" (2) $254–$507 Bonhams
2022·04 A Child's History of England, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854 [1851-1853] $507–$761 Bonhams
2022·04 Dombey and Son, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury and Evans, 1848 $5,075–$7,612 Bonhams
2022·04 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury & Evans, 1848 $381–$634 Bonhams
2022·04 Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People... New Edition, Complete, first octavo one volume edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM UPCOTT, Chapman and Hall, 1839 $25,374–$38,060 Bonhams
2022·04 The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THOMAS B. BRINDLEY, Chapman and Hall, 1841 $19,030–$31,717 Bonhams
2022·04 A Child's History of England, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854 [1851-1853] $1,015–$1,522 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale, WITH AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED PASTED IN, Chapman and Hall, 1841 $7,612–$10,149 Bonhams
2022·04 The Personal History of David Copperfield, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury and Evans, 1850 $381–$634 Bonhams
2022·04 Dombey and Son, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS in 2 vol., Bradbury and Evans, 1848 $507–$761 Bonhams
2022·04 Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, IN 20 ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841 $888–$1,142 Bonhams
2022·04 Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-December 1841 $2,537–$3,806 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) Pictures from Italy, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1846; and 2 other copies of the first edition (3) $381–$507 Bonhams
2022·04 The Battle for Life. A Love Story, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1846 $381–$634 Bonhams
2022·04 The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845] $254–$507 Bonhams
2022·04 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1843 $10,149–$15,224 Bonhams
2022·04 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EDWARD CHAPMAN'S COPY BOUND FOR HIM BY HAYDAY, Chapman and Hall, 1844 $8,881–$11,418 Bonhams
2022·04 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, 20 IN 19, Chapman and Hall, January 1843-July 1844 $1,903–$3,172 Bonhams
2022·04 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by "Boz", FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1838-October 1839 $1,269–$2,537 Bonhams
2022·04 A Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta in Two Acts by "Boz", First performed at the St James's Theatre on Thursday 29 September 1836, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall 1837 $5,075–$7,612 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS CARLYLE, INSCRIBED THE DAY AFTER PUBLICATION ("Thomas Carlyle from Charles Dickens, Nineteenth October 1842") on the half-title of volume 1, Chapman and Hall, 1842 $50,747–$76,121 Bonhams
2022·04 Barnaby Rudge. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Mrs. [Elizabeth] Smithson from Charles Dickens New Years Day 1842" on the title-page, Chapman and Hall, 1841 $19,030–$31,717 Bonhams
2022·04 Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, IN 20 ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841 $888–$1,142 Bonhams
2022·04 The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Charles Tilt, "and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople", 1839 $381–$634 Bonhams
2022·04 The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844] $317–$444 Bonhams
2022·04 (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844; Our Mutual Friend, 1865, FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, 8vo (4) $317–$444 Bonhams
2022·04 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN A PRESENTATION BINDING WITH A TIPPED-IN LETTER PRESENTING THIS COPY TO ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE, Chapman and Hall, 1839 $19,030–$31,717 Bonhams
2022·04 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by "Boz", FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1838-October 1839 $1,269–$2,537 Bonhams
2022·04 Dombey and Son, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Bradbury and Evans, October 1846-April 1848 $3,806–$6,343 Bonhams
2022·04 Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "BOZ", 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1838 $1,015–$1,522 Bonhams
2022·04 The Personal History of David Copperfield, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 MONTHLY PARTS, Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850 $5,075–$7,612 Bonhams
2022·04 A Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta in Two Acts by "Boz", First performed at the St James's Theatre on Thursday 29 September 1836, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall 1837 $5,075–$7,612 Bonhams
2022·04 The Personal History of David Copperfield, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Bradbury and Evans, 1850 $317–$444 Bonhams
2022·04 The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress... A New Edition, Revised and Corrected, Bradbury and Evans, 1846 $761–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Bradbury and Evans, March 1852-September 1853 $507–$761 Bonhams
2022·04 "Hard Times", in Household Words, 5 parts, Bradbury and Evans, April 1-August 12, 1854 $1,269–$2,537 Bonhams
2022·04 Little Dorrit, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857 $507–$761 Bonhams
2022·04 American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, Chapman and Hall, 1842 $761–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN THE 10 ORIGINAL PARTS, Bradbury & Evans, 1846 $10,149–$15,224 Bonhams
2022·04 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1839 $761–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, [London, St. Luke's Hospital, 1860] $761–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, bound in 2 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1837 $761–$1,015 Bonhams
2022·04 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1836-1837 $5,075–$7,612 Bonhams

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