The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. First Edition, Mixed State.

8vo.(5.25" x 8.375") First Edition, mixed state. 1839. London: Chapman and Hall. Half brown leather with corners over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt ruled maroon leather in second compartment. Minor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss at 3 tips, boards lightly rubbed. All edges marbled, cocoa brown endpapers. First Edition, Mixed States. xvi, 624 pp. with half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1st four plates with Chapman and Hall imprint, points include: sister for visiter pg 123, latter for letter pg 160, flys for flies pg 245, visiters for visiter pg 272, incontestible for incontestable pg 297, suprise for surprise pg 586, capital H for how pg 512. All plates accounted for with plate facing pg 25 with early tape repair to rear, plate facing pg 322 with closed tears to fore-edge not affecting image, plate facing pg 543 with extensive paper repair. Unfortunate foxing throughout, heavier to plates. Bound from heh original monthly parts, stab holes to inner gutters, booksellers' pencilled notes to the reverse of the first free endpaper. A very good copy of the First Edition in mixed state of Dickens' third novel. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer, and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.