London: Smith Elder & Co, 1892. First edition thus. leather_bound. Very Good. Very clean text block - some foxing to title page. Pages edges marbled. Green leather three quarter leather and marbled paper to front and endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine with raised spines. Spine slightly sunned 19 x 13 cm. Cover missing on one volume. Volume I, Vanity Fair; Volume II, The History of Pendennis; Volume III, The Newcomes; Volume IV, The History of Henry Esmond Esq.; Volume V The Virginians..... VII The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch Book and Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo; Volume VIII, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Memoirs of Mr C.J. Yellowplush and Burlesques; Volume IX, The Book of Snobs; Volume X, Roundabout Papers, The Four Georges, The English Humourists to which is added The Second Funeral of Napoleon; Volume XI, Catherine, Lovel the Widower, Denis, Duval, Ballads;, black and white frontispiece to each volume with portrait to volume I (missing volume 6 & 12) Very heavy set so standard postage won't cover it.

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Bookseller: The Last Word (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2596
Title: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: W M Thackeray
Format/Binding: Leather_bound
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smith Elder & Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1892
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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