Bought from a second-hand bookshop in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the grand sum of 15p!!!

From the blurb:

"This is the book that carried the 24-yaer-old Dicksn to fame, introduced him to the illustrator, 'Phiz', and gave us some of the immortal characters in comic literature.

"Sending his hero, with Sam Weller as guide and mentor, on their Pickwick Club tour round a world of innocence and experience, Dickens struck an inspired vein in the English sense of humour. No retired businessman and confirmed bachelor since Pickwick has filled so many pages with so much portly charm; and the story of his adventures, according to G.K. Chesterton, affects us as 'something nobler than a novel', for it exudes 'that sense of everlasting youth - a sense of the gods gone wandering round England'."

Donated to charity.