The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517408007
- ISBN 13
- 9780517408001
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers / Avenel Books, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 625 pages. First edition facsimile edition, first printing thus with full letter line. With illustrations by Phiz [Halbot Knight Browne]. No previous ownership marks. Page margins toned from age, as per usual with this printing. Else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust jacket. .
Synopsis
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018518
- Title
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0517408007
- ISBN 13
- 9780517408001
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers / Avenel Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 19th Century English Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Letter line
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