DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
$1,400.00
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Item Number: RRB-132012
"THE PAIN OF PARTING IS NOTHING TO THE JOY OF MEETING AGAIN": FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS' NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with the steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens in the first state, first four plates in later state without imprint, page 123 with "sister" (2d state) & page 160 with "letter" (2d state). Smith I:5; Eckel, p. 64. In near fine condition.
The plot, the characters, the dialogue, everything about Nicholas Nickleby "has the feel of theatre; it is as if Dickens saw human life conducted among lights of the stage, making it somehow larger and brighter than the reality" (Ackroyd, 283).
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
$1,400.00
In Stock
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