Sunday, Sep 07, 2014

DICKENS, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
London: Chapman & Hall, (1839)
$7,450.

London: Chapman and Hall, (1839).  The truly rare original monthly parts, twenty in the true nineteen parts.  An extraordinarily sought-after, valuable, collectible addition to one's library.  Presented and protected in a splendid green half-oasis morocco leather and marbled custom clamshell box with single  rule to board gilt , raised bands, gilt titles.  A brilliant piece.

Basis for two film versions. The first, Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1946 version with Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Bernard Miles and Sally Ann Howes; the other, Douglas McGrath’s 2002 version starring Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Anne Hathaway, Jim Broadbent and a host of the best of British character actors.