VANITY FAIR.
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Cover and spine designs in blind-stamp. Finely rebacked with original spine laid-down. Spine gilt title bright. Several small pieces of old spine are missing.. Covers rubbed with several spots on rear cover. Yellow endpapers have been repaired at the hinges front and back. Green notice tipped-in at front advertising the new work by Thackeray, "Pendennis". The "Great Hoggarty Diamond" page is present preceding the engraved frontispiece and title-page. The date 1848 is on both title-pages. Some peripheral browning and foxing to plates, off-setting onto adjacent pages. Forty plates including the frontispiece. Numerous text illustrations, and chapter first-letter embellishments, done on steel and wood by the author. This copy is an early issue of the first edition. It does not have the rustic type on p.1 nor the suppressed plate at p.336. "Mr. Pitt" is present at p.453. See Van Duzer 231. 624pp.. First Edition, Early Issue. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thick Octavo.
Synopsis
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000833
- Title
- VANITY FAIR.
- Author
- THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Early Issue
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Size
- Thick Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Illustrated
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Prairie Village, Kansas
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