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Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, London, 1839.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby". Published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1839. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 engraved plates. Very good condition. Lacking half-title page, plates browned with some minor spotting. Bound in later half leather with maroon cloth boards. Binding signed by Speakman bookbinder. Leather worn and rubbed at the edges. Gilt lettering and decorations well preserved on the spine. First Edition in book form. Plates 1 and 2 in the earliest states with publisher's imprint. With vister for sister on p. 123, and latter for letter on p. 160, and flys for flies on p. 245, and visiters for visitors on p. 272. 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 #(L4-1).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 625 pp. Just a hint of wear to extremities else very good condition. A nice bright copy. Red leather binding with gilt stamped decorations and title on spine. Gilt stamped Dickens signature on rear board and portrait of author on front board. Binding tight and sound. All page edges gilt. Marbled end sheets. A lovely collectible copy. With points 'flys' for 'flies' on p. 245 and 'visiters' for 'visitors' on p. 272. Charles Dickens signed note fragment bound in.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, xvi, 624pp, [1]. Marbled boards, three quarter green leather, title in gilt on spine, five raised bands with gilt-ruled compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A complete example, with 39 full-page illustrations by "Phiz" [Hablot Knight Browne]. Illustrations generally clean, some foxing to frontispiece, light toning and transference at various points. Mixed issue, with the "Chapman & Hall" imprint on frontispiece and 3 of the first 4 plates. (Gimbel A41). Two signed mailing envelopes affixed to front flyleaves, both signed by Charles Dickens. The first envelope is addressed to his brother-in-law, Henry Austin at the General Board of Health on Parliament Street. The second is addressed to H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, a British naturalist and poet, at the Conservative Club in London. Henry Austin was the brother-in-law of Charles Dickens and a close friend. Dickens was a lifelong advocate for the health of nations, so he worked closely with Austin to understand the sanitary conditions of major cities of England. Austin became the Secretary to the General Board of Health in 1848, giving Dickens access to important details of health policy.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. Chapman and Hall: London, 1839.
Price: US$4200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "With illustrations by Phiz", 8.25 x 5.25", full black morocco with gilt flower pattern, by Pfister, with red leather gilt-dec inserts inside covers, aeg, extremities a bit worn, hinges loose, front inner hinge starting, contents toned, scattered spotting else vg. FIRST EDITION, EARLY STATE, WITH CHECK SIGNED BY DICKENS. June 6, 1863, to Mssrs Casell & Co for nine pounds, folds else vg, nicely signed with paraph.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman & Hall, London UK, 1839.
Price: US$11016.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition 1839, with most first issue points, Smith 5, p.41/42. Rare and early signature, Faithfully Yours Charles Dickens, signed two days after publication in October 25th, 1839 tipped in between plate and title page. Dickens signatures are scarce but this early is scarcer still. Contemporary half-calf binding, rubbed, with slight bumping to corners and extremities. Internally clean, some spotting to plates, occasional tears or marginal loss, most repaired and not affecting illustrations. Final leaf pp.623-624 torn with loss affecting text, otherwise complete. 8vo
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom