We want you to love your book so customer service is important to us! All orders come with a FREE bookmark! Shop my Abebooks store and save on shipping!. Pages are bright and clean! Looks almost like new! Your purchase supports a small business. NO spine creases! Interior is in Very Good+ condition! A few pages have a small crease at the corner. In 'Oliver Twist', Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.' Book is in Very Good+ condition! A little edgewear/scuffing on the covers, particularly the corners are slightly creased. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.

ILLUSTRATED! 'Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH ARISTOCRATIC PROVENANCE. The wrappers to the monthly parts issue illustrate eleven scenes from the story, including Bumble leading away Oliver, Fagin in his den and in prison, Sykes with Bull's-eye, and Sykes being watched by Bully's-eye as he falls from a rooftop, but not the cruel murder of Nancy. Pickwick was only half completed when Dickens began the story, and he started Nicholas Nickleby before it was finished. It was first serialised in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837-April 1839, and first appeared in book form in November 1838. 'Many would-be owners are doomed to disappointment in their efforts to effect a capture' (H. Dickens's short, second novel is one of the most sought after of his publications in parts. issue or first edition of most of the text of the novel now known as Oliver Twist. Fakes (his sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 2002, lot 196).įIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. In 1731, the first periodical with the word magazine in the title. Provenance: Marquess of Queensberry (bookplate) - Neville L.

10 in facsimile and partly split along spine, some chips at head and tail of spines, neat spine and cover edge repairs), green morocco-backed box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. 7 and 10 substituted from Dombey and Son, front wrappr to pt. 5,8,9, with substituted wrappers from others parts, back wrappers to pts. 4, 9 and 10, without the advertisement leaf in pt 10.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers after Cruikshank (pts.

24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, retouched by J. London: Bradbury and Evans, January to October 1846.ġ0 original parts, 8° (224 x 135mm).

Oliver twist first edition