Doctor Birch and His Young Friends [microform] by William Makepeace Thackeray - 2012-01-10

D. Appleton and Co., 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Faded Brown cloth covered boards w/ embossed decor. Gold embossed pictorial scene & title. Corners worn through. Several pencil names & inscript on free endpaers Mild foxing scattered throughout. Much illustration ( pen & ink ?) 49 pages. 10 pp ads at rear. 6" x 7 3/4"

D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A good+ copy in cloth (large chip to top of spine; wear to spine head; slight rubbing to covers; previous owner's bookplate). small 8vo [4],49pp+ Includes engraved frontis and title (with pseudonym 'M.A. Titmarsh'); 10pp publisher's catalogue at rear (undated).16 b/w Illustrations.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

New.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, New York: D. Appleton & Co. , 1853. Edge and corner wear; no dj; corners are bumped and rubbed; front board is detached from the spine; foxing; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; former owner's library label is affixed to the inner front cover; part of the title portion of the head of the spine has frayed away; overall still a very very rare and collectible used FIRST AMERICAN EDITION! Decorative green boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt lettering and illustration on the front board! 49 unmarked and uncreased magical and historical pages of text and 14 wonderful pages of historic black and white illustrations! "There is no need to say why I became Assistant Master and Professor of the English and French language, flower-painting, and the German flute, in Doctor Birch's Academy, at Rodwell Regis. Good folks may depend on this that there was good reason for my leaving lodgings near London, and a genteel society, for an under-master's desk in that… Read More

NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1857. Early US Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated third thousand on the title page. Publisher's brown blind stamped cloth with illustrated vignette and titles stamped in gilt on front, title to spine. Double title pages, illustrated w/ 14 plates throughout text + engravings to title pages. Loss to cloth at spine, edges moderately worn. Thackeray's third Christmas book. From the library of noted biblophiles Sherman P and Anne Lyon Haight with their bookplates pastedown. A vintage, unsophisticated copy in a publisher's decorated binding typical of the period.