OUR STREET
by Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, London : 1848, 1848 54 p. + Advertisements at end [1 p.] + Sixteen lively colored plates (including the title), printed by Vizetelly from drawings by Thackeray. Small 4to. 19 cm. Original wraps bound in. Later full morocco binding rebacked in leather. Thackeray, in both his writing and his satirical illustrations, delineates characters and scenes, with a few quick strokes that are more telling than most heftier volumes. "one of our best comic writers. bears comparison to Moliere." Britannia IX (1848); Flamm 58-67; Van Duzer, 157-158. The Morning Chronicle (Jan. 5, 1848), speaking of "Our Street" - "The charm of Thackeray's writing is that it is like talking - pleasant, sunny, half-trifling, half-earnest chat - in fact, a sort of wise man's prattle. He makes his book speak like a man." W140 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 960616
- Title
- OUR STREET
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall, London : 1848
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- COLOR ILLUSTRATED; LITERATURE; CARICATURE; VIZETELLY; PLATES; 1848; VICTORIAN RAD
- Bookseller catalogs
- ILLUSTRATED; HUMOR;
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About the Seller
THE FAMILY ALBUM
Biblio member since 2007
Kinzers, Pennsylvania
About THE FAMILY ALBUM
Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.