The Illustrated Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Companion edition to Royal Shakespeare Company production for television)
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0025313509
- ISBN 13
- 9780025313507
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0025313509 . An illustrated reprint edition of the third novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), first published serially beginning in 1838. "Nicholas Nickleby" is centered around a young man who, due to the death of his father, must support his mother and sister. It has been described as "perhaps the funniest novel in the English language" by Peter Ackroyd; while it also takes on the serious social issue of the maltreatment of children in English boarding schools. With many of the original engraved illustrations by "Phiz". This edition produced in conjunction with a television production of the novel by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and with several color plates showing the actors therefrom as they portray the various characters in the novel. --- In linen-finish maroon paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, minor chafing to edges of covers, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (12), 420 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84829
- Title
- The Illustrated Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Companion edition to Royal Shakespeare Company production for television)
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0025313509
- ISBN 13
- 9780025313507
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0025313509
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