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Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1879. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1879 PRINTING. From the 24 volume set of "The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray". Many detailed illustrations. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Covers (green boards with black lettering/decoration) show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

T.Y. Crowell. Hardcover. Good. Good+ hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. No date found…..looks to be around 1900. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (green cloth with black and gilt decoration/lettering) show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1896. BU2 - Book has some light rubbing on the cover edges, tanning on the spine with chipping and wear on the title plate, previous owner's bookplate adhered on the front fixed endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Limited to One Thousand Copies. No. 571. . Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1896. Limited edition, #77 of 1000 copies of the Large Paper edition. Single volume that is part of a larger set of Thackeray's works. Olive linen-like cloth with paper spine label, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, illustrated with good quality black and white tissue-protected plates. Some darkening to the spine label, very tiny chip to one label corner, light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, small scuffed areas along the lower spine and front joint, good hinges, tight text block, attractive engraved bookplate of Charles Backman MacMurray on the front pastedown, pages very clean and unmarked.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1891. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. Edition De Luxe. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edition De Luxe, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is No. 305. 8vo. Cloth. 1 volume of the set Thackeray's Works. Black and white illustrated plates. A number of the pages remain uncut, despite being an exlibrary book from the Rock County Campus of the University of Wisconsin. Library marks include neat spine label, stamps, and pocket in rear. Removable barcode on back of book. Moderate edgewear, particularly to head and tail of spine. Pasted down paper title block on spine is worn. Very good..

London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes previous owner's signature. Series; The works of William Makepeace Thackeray ; v. 22. Physical description; viii, 347 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects; English fiction 19th century. Physical description; viii, 347 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects; English fiction 19th century. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated.

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1863. 1st. hardback. Very Good, 1st Edition, original blindstamped navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; pale green endpapers. Minimal scuffing, spine very faintly sunned; text block good, untrimmed pages unmarked and clean, save occasional foxing; a few pages a little loose but still attached.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by Thackeray himself.

New York: John Wurtle Lovell, 1880. Leather. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". William Makepeace Thackeray. A handsomely bound collection of the 'Roundabout Papers' by William Makepeace Thackeray, also including some of his other notable works. A collection of wise and intellectual essays called the 'Roundabout Papers' by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in the Cornhill Magazine. Including the essays 'On a Lazy Idle Boy', 'Tunbridge Toys', 'On a Hundred Years Hence', 'A Mississippi Bubble', and more.Also including The Second Funeral of Napoleon, The Four Georges, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, and 'Critical Reviews and Selections from Punch'. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist known for his satirical and humorous works, most notable Vanity Fair (1847), which painted a panoramic portrait of upper class British Society. This edition includes numerous illustrations by the author. Containing the bookplate of 'James McLean' to the front… Read More

Smith, Elder & Co, 1879. First Thus. Leather Binding. Near Fine. 2 volumes, 'Roundabout' complete. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in a lustrous full brown polished calf, spines with raised band, three red morocco labels, elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, and four small red morocco inlays tooled in gilt, covers bordered with three fillets in gilt, with four red morocco inlays at corners tooled in gilt, inner dentelles tooled with four gilt fillets and a repeating pattern in blind, all edges extra gilt (light rubbing to spines). Plates in chine colle by Thackeray and others. Copy #229 of 1000. The set from which this work comes, originaly issued in 24 volumes, was extended to 52 by Zaehnsdorf. PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate of William P. Hoffman.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1863. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Not STater. The first edition of William Thackeray's collection of essays 'Roundabout Papers', all having been originally published in 'Cornhill Magazine', illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. A collection of wise and intellectual essays by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in the 'Cornhill Magazine'. Including the essays 'On a Lazy Idle Boy', 'Tunbridge Toys', 'On a Hundred Years Hence', 'A Mississippi Bubble', and more. William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his satirical works looking at English society, most especially for 'Vanity Fair'. He tended to be quite savage in his attacks on society, publishing under various pseudonyms in his youth to avoid personal criticism. With a frontispiece, one plate, and numerous in-text illustrations. With sixteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear dated November 1862. With a half-title. Collated, complete. In… Read More

1863. London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1863. Original blindstamped purple cloth,spine slightly sunned, inner hinges weak. 352 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's ads. With four full-page illustrations. First edition.