The Mahogany Tree

Very rare and unusual, privately printed copy of "The Mahogany Tree" by William Makepeace Thackeray.Full of interesting features and character.This is one of only 200 copies which were produced in December 1910, apparently for a Christmas party given by Thomas Nast Fairbanks and his wife Elsie.To one of the rear pages is printed "Of this book 200 copies were printed… Read more about this item

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino. Very Good. 1887. First Edition Thus; '. Hardcover. Original publisher's cloth with bright gilt lettering and thin wood panel inlaid to front. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in frontis-portrait on tissue, wood-cut engravings & vignettes. Printed on heavy stock paper. Text is tight & intact. Corners & spine ends lightly rubbed. Light scattered foxing.… Read more about this item

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. Cloth. Very Good. 13.5" by 11.5". Frank T. Merrill. A delightful illustrated edition of this Christmastime poem from William Makepeace Thackery. An illustrated edition of British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray's Christmas themed poem, which first appeared in Punch Magazine in 1847. The publisher's preface explains that this poem was 'a welcome addition to… Read more about this item

Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co, 1886. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Brown and teal cloth boards with gilt lettering and beveled edges. Near fine with light edgwear and rubbing.

Munchen: Verlag Gesellachaft fur. VG++ book, in rare DJ, in GOOD slipcase. 12"x9",384pp.. 1908. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG++ book, FINE DJ, in GOOD slipcase. Flawless book BUT: covers lightly foxed, FINE otherwise. DJs from this era very unusual. . Cream color boards with green lettering & decorations. Spine, both boards & text block fore edge lightly foxed. FLAWLESS inside. Text… Read more about this item

London: Johnson, Hickborn and Company, Ltd., 1910. Undated, ca. 1910. Also indicates Edition De Luxe, Privately Printed. Burgundy moire silk type cloth with paper label, pages printed with light green decorative borders, tipped on frontis illustration, unpaginated (about twenty pages). Some light edgwear and dustiness, a bit of offsetting of the borders onto pages opposite, no names… Read more about this item

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino. Limited hand numbered ed. 57/500. Original green cloth with mahogany panel and gilt titles. Fair copy, edges worn and corners bumped, small section of mahogany missing, cloth breaking at head of spine, binding a little weak and starting at ffep, all pages present and clean but heavily foxed throughout . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1887.

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino. Very Good. 1887. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Large 4to Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 185. Green & brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine & front cover, THERE IS A PANEL OF MAHOGANY VENEER ON THE LEFT OF THE UPPER COVER EMBOSSED IN GILT WITH… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. There is sun fading at the top of the front and back covers and the corners are worn off slightly; Very rare privately printed (1 of 200 copies printed for Thomas Nast Fairbanks by Hal Marchbanks) with British Handmade watermark; cover looks like mahogany; Drawing… Read more about this item

Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co. 1886. Decorated cloth, beautiful plates, t. e. g.; Near fine, light scattered foxing, minor wear to cloth points, clean & bright. .