The illustrations reproduce photographs and drawings
Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death and is forced to make his own way in the world
Among the historical figures fictionalised in the novel are Chaim Weizmann
The text and illustrations combine very effectively to make this among the most attractive books of the period
in the unclipped (18s net) jacket
A Century of Creepy Stories Agatha Christie The illustrations reproduce photographs andA Century of Creepy Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co., [Undated, but 1934]. First edition, first printing of this omnibus volume that contains seventy stories by forty one famous writers, including master blood curdlers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Algernon Blackwood. Hardcover; xi, 1178 pp. Publisher's original turquoise cloth, decorated and lettered in black to upper cover and spine, plain endpapers; with the original,