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The Life & Adventures of Nicolas Nickleby: With Thirty-nine Illustrations by 'Phiz"
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Plano, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Attractive leather-bound illustrated edition of Dickens' work. Dark green leather limp bound cover with gilt stamping on spine. Decorative endpapers. Printed on "India paper," i.e. thin tissue-like paper. Text block has gilt top. Built-in green ribbon bookmark.
Cover has wear and bumping, particularly on top edges, corners, and top and heel of spine. Small writing on FFEP. Small stains on text block. Pages are age tanned.Ribbon bookmark is faded.
Cover has wear and bumping, particularly on top edges, corners, and top and heel of spine. Small writing on FFEP. Small stains on text block. Pages are age tanned.Ribbon bookmark is faded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G21
- Title
- The Life & Adventures of Nicolas Nickleby
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- Hablot "Phiz" Knight Browne
- Format/Binding
- Leather limp bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- The Oxford India Paper Dickens
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Humphrey Milford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. (before 1917)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dickens, phiz, nickleby, oxford india paper
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Novels; Works of Charles Dickens; The Oxford India Paper Dickens;
Terms of Sale
PWK Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PWK Books
Biblio member since 2020
Plano, Texas
About PWK Books
Independent seller of antiquarian books. Prices as listed. PWK Books sells exclusively through Biblio.
Will be closed December 15-January 1.
Will be closed December 15-January 1.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Limp Bound
- A book bound in a flexible leather or cloth. The covering material is not affixed to boards, as are traditional hardcover books....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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