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Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good ++/No Jacket
- Seller
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Chapman and Hall, 1870. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Phiz. A later edition C1870 in the same format as the 1st edition. Illustrations by Phiz. Beautifully bound in a contemporary full green calf with gilt tooling to spine and board edges, gauffered board edges, raised bands and hand marbled endpapers. Condition is excellent, all joints and hinges sound, wear minimal, bindings solid and no marks or inscriptions.A very good quality binding. Book is very good++ and bright. Light marking to boards. Nice clean contents. Very feint foxing to some pages. A lovely example. More images available upon request.Ref 16602
Synopsis
Nicholas Nickleby finds himself penniless after his father's death and turns to his wealthy uncle to help him find work in effort to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to navigate his own way in the world. This adventure gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummles and their daughter, the 'infant phenomenon'. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but is also a lively work, revealing his comic genius at its highest.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lasting Words Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023315
- Title
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- Phiz
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1870
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 16602
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lasting Words Ltd
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Northampton, Northamptonshire
About Lasting Words Ltd
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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