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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 268 pp. With two engravings by Cruikshank, which are free from the dampstaining that affects most of the text. Lacking the illustrated half-title page. 8vo, original cloth-backed plain boards with printed paper label on spine. New Edition, Complete. Tiny ink numerals on endsheets; old ink ownership signature; some dampstaining to text throughout; one gathering partly sprung; spine label tanned and rubbed with several tiny chips. Text in double columns.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1st American edition "New Edition, Complete". A Fair copy. Tall 8vo., 268 pp., 20 plates. Text in double columns. Bound in publishers brown cloth with stamped pattern on covers. Spine has title in gilt. Top third of spine detached, but included. Covers show overall wear and soiling with tips rubbed and bent. Interior is foxed. This American edition contains "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble," and "The Pantomime of Life," by Boz, - sketches published by the Author since the May 15 London collection was issued. Philadelphia, August 1839.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 4to hardcover volume in paste paper boards with cloth spine. Spine present but in poor shape. Boards holding but worn. No front endpaper starts with title page. Title page says with illustrations by Phiz but there are no plates and never were inside the book. May have had 1 or 2 plates before title but not present now if they were ever included. Rear has end papers and never had ad pages. Text complete very minor scattered foxing.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 403. Bound in scuffed leather backed boards. Lacks the portrait of "Boz" but with 40 plates. Wilkins, Early American Bibliography notes: "[page 17]. Lea and Blanchard issued this in parts in 1838-1839, this was bound from them. Printed in double column. Some foxing, etc, a good copy. VanderPoel B125(2); cf. Edgar & Vail, p. 18; Page iv is not a blank (containing the list of illustrations), none of the plates precedes the title page, nor is there a catalogue in the rear. Gimbel/ Podeschi A43. Amer. Imprints 55380.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1839.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Measuring approximately 10" x 6.5" with 403 numbered pages. This book is in poor condition. Heavy chippinh and bumping to both ends of spine. Spine almost completely loose from binding, barely hanging on. Heavy staining to both boards. Moderate staining to all edges of textblock. Front and rear hinges cracked. Rear hinge loose from binding barely hanging on. Moderate foxing to interior pages. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (N9-47).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1839.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 401pp, (in double columns) 12pp ads bound in rear in smaller format. Two plates before the title page. Bound in original grey boards. First US Edition, page iv blank. About half of the spine has chipped away. Second front free endpaper nearly detached. Scattered foxing.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Description: Two illustr, 9.25 x 6, cloth backed boards, 404 pp (in double columns) + publisher's catalogue, cover very worn, rear outer hinge repaired with some silver material, spine label almost entirely worn off, spine cocked, hinges loose, first two blanks with upper fore-corner torn out (second with part of ink inscription from former owner remaining), contents toned, spotted, worn, but appears to be complete. SWAF. FIRST U.S. EDITION, later impression with two plates (p129 and p 122) inserted before title, page iv blank, 6 leaves of ads at rear.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First thus American "complete " edition - First American edtion of the 1839 Sketches with "The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" and "The Pantomime of Life" added. August, 1839. Nineteen full page engravings by J. Yeager of George Cruikshank drawings (missing one "The Rugg's at Ramsgate"). Green embossed cloth 10 1/8" x 6 1/4". Large blindstamped design front and back boards. 268pp. Spine of cover gone, pages at front separating, a few tears, a little foxing, boards worn at edges. Needs to be rebound. Flyleaf missing. Some page edges tattered. Rear free endpage loose and torn. Needs to be rebound.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 268, [16] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full binding of brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Mild shelfwear. Chipping and tearing of cloth along edges and spine. Rubbing to front and rear covers. Age-toning and foxing to textblock. Writing of previous owner throughout. With 16 pages of advertisements in rear. Features twenty illustrations by Cruikstank throughout. Shelved in Case 13. 1371288. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1839.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 403 pages. In Good minus condition. Rebound. Brown leather spine with black leather joints and corners, marbled paper boards, and gilt text and tooling on spine. Boards have mild rubbing to corners, heavy rubbing to edges of boards, and some of the corner leather missing. Textblock has mild to moderate foxing on many pages, title page has large tear repaired with tape on copyright page, and light damp staining to fore edge of pages. Shelved Case 13. 1371079. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: [i-v], vi-viii, [13]- 404 pp. Illus. with 39 plates. 8vo. Double-column format. Illustrated by Phiz, re-engraved by J. Yeager. This copy does not appear bound with sheets from the parts issue, though unlike Gimbel's second copy, page iv is not a blank (containing the list of illustrations), none of the plates precedes the title page, nor is there a catalogue in the rear. Gimbel/ Podeschi A43. Amer. Imprints 55380. Boards rubbed, calf worn at edges and joints, spine a bit brittle, endpapers toned at edges, scattered foxing, 3 inch closed tear to plate at p. 110, tear to edge of one leaf, small chip to bottom margin of p. 109 and 404. Binding tight. About very good. Half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, dark morocco spine label with gilt titles
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens (Boz.). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Lea & Blanchard, 1839.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society. First US Edition. In publisher's original brown cloth. Book Condition: Good. Boards and spine have some staining. Interior pages show some discoloration especially bad on illustration pages as is normal for paper in this time period. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, in fours. 268 pp. Twenty plates. Text in double columns. Contemporary calf over cloth boards, gilt-decorated spine with black leather label. Binding extremities rubbed and lightly worn, occasional light foxing and browning. A good copy. First American book edition of the 1839 Sketches, with The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble and The Pantomime of Life added. Thus, first American "complete" edition. Gimbel A13. Wilkins, p. 12.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Philadelphia; Lea & Blanchard, 1839.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Nineteenth century leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards. Raised cords on the spine, with gold bands and gold lettering. Some scuffing to the spine and shelf-wear to the boards and corners, but overall a presentable and handsome copy. Gutters at endpaper appear to have been professionally reinforced at some point, with a nice gray strip of bookcloth. Ownership name on the front endpaper. Another ownership name on the title page crossed out in ink. Title page dated 1839. 403 pages. This copy has 38 plates by Phiz inserted (of 40). No frontispiece portrait of Dickens, which evidently was not available to the binders when the book was delivered to them. Copyright page says Stereotyped by Fagan. Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins. No date on the copyright page. Text printed in double columns. Plates on a different paper, with an ivory tone. Some mild toning from age and a few blushes of foxing, but overall clean. Page edges crisp and square. No publishers catalogue or list of illustrations.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. Lea & Blanchard, Phila., 1839.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 404 pgs. with 6 leaves of the publisher's adverts bound in at the end of the book. Believed to be the first American issue, but not so stated in the book. This publisher offered,contemporary with this book, a fancier edition having all the Phiz plates, The small Lea and Blanchard 'catalog' is bound in at the end of the volume in 12mo. format. It notes that Lea and Blanchard had available illustrated editions with 'embossed cloth' bindings of 4 Dickens works -- Pickwick, Papers, Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz, and Nickleby, and that "Cheap editions of the last 3 may be had, with 2 plates each." This is that 'cheap' edition. It is dated 1839, and there is a printer credit showing for "T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers, No. 3 Lodge Alley," [London has been omitted] making it likely that the English plates or sheets for the book were modified to be used here. Two preliminary blanks have been removed from this copy, so that the 2 plate pages now open the book. Board surfaces are tan paper, with brown cloth spine, covers have surface scuffing and light stains. Corners are turned in and slightly peeling. Spine label is fully visible, but also scuffed. Text pages are mostly moderately foxed, though some are not. Prints and the title page are nearly free of aging marks. There is a light stain mark 2"x3" on the front cover, and some water mottling outside toward the board edge. One small dark mark on rear board, and 1x3" water-stain at top. Two Phiz. plates precede the title page, no others provided within the book. One leaf showing a prior fold. A rare book, intact in its original binding. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2241.51 + shipping
Description: First US edition in book form, in the original quarter cloth binding, and scarce thus. The novel was first serialized in the US in parts from May 1838 to November 1839. On 15 November 1839 it was published in book form in two simultaneous formats: in full cloth (with 39 plates), and as a cheaper option the present quarter cloth (with two plates). To his irritation, Dickens received no payment for the publication, which was not subject to any copyright protection in the US. Gimbel A43; Smith, First American Editions, pp. 121-3 Octavo. Original blue quarter cloth (other variants in grey or brown cloth, no priority), neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, drab boards. Housed in blue quarter cloth box. With 2 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), re-engraved by Joseph Yeager. At rear is 2 pp. advertisement "Lea and Blanchard. Have Just Published a Poetical Annual For 1840", variant to the 12 pp. catalogue Smith calls for. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Sides a little rubbed, inner hinges neatly reinforced, contents clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom