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Nicholas Nickleby; The Works of Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: James G. Gregory, Publisher, 1861. Household Edition. Hardcover. VG. Octavo. 7.25 x 4.5. 1861. Four volume set. Each volume has a frontispiece protected by tissue. V1. 306pps. Shelf wear, some bubbling to green cloth along front right edge and in the middle of the back cover. V2. 312pps. shelf wear. V3 306pps. some bubbling along spine and outer edge. V4 304pps shelf wear, a bubble along the front spine edge and a half inch long indentation below the BOZ circle on the front cover.
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
- Midway Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65354
- Title
- Nicholas Nickleby; The Works of Charles Dickens
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Household Edition
- Publisher
- James G. Gregory, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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