Lovel The Widower
by Thackeray, W.H.
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1861. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 258 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. A bright, clean and fresh copy A middle age man finds himself newly widowed and unsure how to navigate his way through life. Illustrated with full page black and white plates. Raised bands spine panels in gilt arabesques,... Read More
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The English Humourists Of The Eighteenth Century; A Series of Lectures, Delivered In England, And The United States Of America
by Thackeray, W.H.
London: Smith Elder, & Co, 1853. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 322 pages. 6 pages of adverts at rear. 19 x 13 cm. A bright, clean and fresh copy This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. He starts... Read More
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Roundabout Papers. Reprinted From The Cornhill Magazine
by Thackeray, W.H.
London: Smith Elder And Co, 1863. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 352 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait facing title page. Raised bands spine panels in gilt arabesques, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. Inner contents clean, illustrations bright and fresh.
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Early And Late Papers Hitherto Uncollected
by Thackeray, W.H.
Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Near Fine. 407 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Thackeray rambles through many topics and thoughts, starting with food. Clean, very fresh copy with interior spotless. Tiny nick at head.
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The Four George: Sketches Of Manners, Morals, Court, And Town Life
by Thackeray, W. H.
London: Smith Elder Ann Co, 1861. First edition. hardcover. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 226 pages, 19 x 13 cm. Interior contents clean and crisp, same for the black and white plates. "The Four Georges" refers to the first four Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Raised bands, spine panels decorated and lettered in gilt (arabesques), inner dentelles and... Read More
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Denis Duval
by Thackeray, W.H.
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine. 275 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The life of a young man in 18th century France. Interior contents very clean, fresh and bright. Marbled endpapers, raised bands with spine labels decorated in gilt florets.
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The Students' Quarter Or, Paris Five-And-Thirty Years Since
by Thackeray, W.H.
London: John Hamden Hotten, 1870. First edition. leather_bound. Modern crimson morocco multi paneled gilt borders. Fine. 202 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Posthumously published book with Thackeray's own hand-colored full page illustrations. The author ponders his student days in Paris. Interior contents very fresh and clean. With the original navy blue cloth covers bound-in. Inner dentelles, marbled endpapers,... Read More
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Rebecca And Rowena A Romance Upon A Romance
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Chapman And Hall, 1850. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 18.5 x 14 cm. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates after Richard Doyle, coloured by hand. Another one of his popular Christmas books. With the original front cover tipped-in at rear. VAN DUZER 181. All contents text and images sharp, bright and clean. Inner... Read More
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Notes Of A Journey From Cornhill To Grand Cairo; By The Way Of Lisbon. Athens. Constantinople, And Jerusalem
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Chapman And Hall, 1846. First edition. leather_bound. Full green morocco spine and top head front and back cover faded to brown. Teg. Near fine.. With humor and satire Thackeray provides insights into the cultures and societies he encounters.
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The Rose And The Ring: Or, The History Of Prince Giglio And Prince Bulbo; A Fire-Side Pantomime For Great and Small Children
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Smith Elder, 1855. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 128 pages.16 pages of adverts at rear. 18 x 14 cm. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. An almost as new copy, remarkably bright, clean and fresh -- type and illustrations. With orig. illustrated mauve paper covers included. Raised bands spine panels in gilt arabesques,... Read More
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Doctor Birch & his young friends
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Chapman And Hall, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine. 49 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. One advert page at rear. Sixteen full page illustrations. Fictional account of a boy's educational academy in the 19th century. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean. Marbled endpapers, raised bands with spine panels gilt decorated... Read More
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The Second Funeral Of And The Chronicle Of the Drum
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in modern tan boards with cloth backstrip. Near fine. 122 pages. 13 x 12 cm. 4 engraved plates. 19th-century facsimile edition reprint 1841 but later, as evidenced by 4 stars, not 5, between verses on p. 120. Thackeray's account of Napoleon funeral in Paris. Interior contents clean. VAB DUZER 194.... Read More
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Our Street
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Chapman And Hall, 1848. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Teg. Near fine. 54 pages. 17 x 13.5 cm. Sixteen tinted full page plates by Thackeray. VAN DUZER 157. One of his Christmas Books. a witty portrayal of the daily lives and eccentricities of residents in London. Interior sharp, plates bright and clean in an elegant unsigned... Read More
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The Kickleburys On the Rhine
by Thackeray, W.H. (Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1850. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Teg. Fine. [iv], 87, [1], [2 ad] pages. 18 x 14 cm. Hand-colored illustrated title page, frontispiece and 13 full-page plates. One of Thackeray's very popular Christmas books. Six titles were eventually published, between 1847-1855. This work satirizes the aristocracy of England and their frivolous way. Bound... Read More
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Comic Tales And Sketches
by Thackeray, William Makepeace [M.A.Titmarsh]
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco and matching cloth. Teg. Fine. 2 vols. 299, 370 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Profusion of tinted plates by Thackeray. Front covers and spines of original edition bound-in. As a contributor to Punch Thackeray often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. Thackeray’s... Read More
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An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank; Reprinted Verbatim From "The Westminster Review" Edited With A Prefatory Note On Thackeray As An Artist And Art-Critic by W.E. Church
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: George Redway, 1884. Hardcover. Recently recased in three quarter brown morocco and aubergine cloth. Very good. Cruikshank, George. 60 pages. 27 x 18 cm. With more than forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank (frontispiece) etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. Clean, bright copy with wide text margins. COHN 789 (citing the first... Read More
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The Virginians A Tale Of The Last Century
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859. First edition. Orig. printed and illustrated yellow wrappers all housed in clear plastic covers. Near fine in folding chemise and fine lined slipcase, brown cloth and matching brown leather spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Thackeray, William Makepeace. 22 x 14 cm. illustrated with forty-eight etched plates by the author; the last work... Read More
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An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank. With Numerous Illustrations Of His Work; (From The Westmister Review, NO. LXVI.) With Additional Etchings
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Henry Hooper, 1840. First edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century full tan calf. Aeg. Very good. Cruikshank, George. 59 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 17 etchings, 39 woodcuts. This appreciation by Thackeray prompted by his boyhood admiration for Cruikshank who would "forego tarts" to be able to afford a book, or set-up a "joint stock company of boys"... Read More
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Quarter black linen, cloth sides are a color lithograph by the artist. Fine in slightly chipped slipcase with paper spine label. 2 Vols. Ardizzone, Edward. 784 pages. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Edward Ardizzione. Centenary Edition with an introduction by Angela Thirkell. Limited edition, copy 463 of 1500, signed by... Read More
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The Virginians A Tale Of The Last Century
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859. First edition, First Issue. Orig. printed and illustrated yellow wrappers. Near fine in fine red cloth chemise in matiching red quarter morocco slipcase worn at edges. Thackeray, William Makepeace. 22 x 14 cm. illustrated with forty-eight etched plates by the author; the last work he illustrated for himself. Numerous woodcut vignettes in text,... Read More
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The Book Of Snobs
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Punch Office, 1848. First edition. leather_bound. Full maroon morocco. Fine in very good lined half brown and marbled board pull-off case. 180 pages. 18 x 12 cm. His satirical taxonomy of snobs in an elegant binding by Orrock & Sons of Edinburgh -- raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in arabesques, inner dentelles, front and back covers... Read More
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Burlesques. A Legend Of The Rhine. Rebeca & Rowena
by Thackeray, W. M.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 129 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel. This early work by Thackeray is decidedly contrary, a self-confessed middle-aged novel that begins where most novels end. Raised bands spine panels in... Read More
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The Good Genius, That Turned Everything Into Gold.; Or, The Queen Bee and the Magic Dress. A Christmas Fairy Tale
by The Brothers Mayhew (Mayhew, Augustus & Henry Mayhew)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 1847-1885. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth lettered in gilt. Aeg. Very good. Cruikshank, George. 201 pages and 14 pages of adverts at rear. 17 x 11 cm. Our copy not noted in OCLC which describes two editions by Harper & Brothers. COHN 545 denotes the David Bogue, 1848 publication in six monthy parts.... Read More
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Joseph Beuys Die Vitrinen Ein Verzeichnis
by Theewen, Gerhard
Koln: Walther Konig, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Beuys, Joseph. 144 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Seventy-two black and white illustrations present his assemblages in detail, from 1961 through 1985. Text in German. Inscription free endpaper, interior contents clean and fresh.
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Nos Oiseaux; Illustrated by Hector Giacomelli
by Theuriet, Andre
Paris: Librairie Artistique H. Launette & Cie, 1887. First edition. leather_bound. Full decorated mustard calf. Aeg. Fine in fine marbled cloth and brown morocco chemise, backstrip with color onlays and lettered in gilt in matching slipcase, corners rubbed. 206 page. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 of 50 on Japan paper. 110 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli,... Read More
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